2020-03-25: Social Media Postees

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Sanders threatens to hold up $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus over 'anti-worker' bias
rt.com | 2020-03-26
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says he is willing to stall the already much-delayed coronavirus stimulus plan if more restrictions are not placed on the "$500 million corporate welfare fund." | Sanders says the "anti-worker objections" from several Republicans over proposed unemployment benefits in the bill have him ready to delay the whole process. | "Unless these Republican Senators drop their objections, I am prepared to put a hold on this bill until stronger conditions are imposed on the $500 billion corporate welfare fund," Sanders said in a statement on Wednesday, responding to several GOP lawmakers who…
rt.com/usa/484108-sanders-stimulus-senate-coronavirus/

'Covid-19 could be seasonal': Fauci warns coronavirus is likely to return in 'CYCLES', stresses need for vaccine
rt.com | 2020-03-26
Even if the US and other nations battling Covid-19 succeed in beating it back, the illness may return in yearly cycles, warned Anthony Fauci, a top expert on the US coronavirus task force, urging for the fast rollout of a vaccine. | …
rt.com/usa/484116-fauci-coronavirus-seasonal-cycles/

Peru deploys army in the streets to enforce COVID-19 curfew
wsws.org | 2020-03-26
The quarantine and curfew imposed by President Vizcarra are aimed at protecting the interests of the wealthy and preparing the repression of a likely social explosion.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/26/peru-m26.html

Norwegian parties grant government emergency powers as coronavirus leads to record rise in unemployment
wsws.org | 2020-03-26
The agreement, which suspends parliament for up to six months, means the right-wing coalition can make changes to laws without consulting deputies.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/25/norw-m26.html

Johnson's "herd immunity" strategy and the London Conference on Intelligence whitewash: Britain's ruling class and eugenics
wsws.org | 2020-03-26
Innumerable posts on social media have drawn the connection between the reactionary ideology of eugenics and the British government's criminally delayed and negligent response to the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/26/euge-m26.html

SPLC and allies seek federal court injunction in system-wide suit to protect people detained by ICE from contracting COVID-19
splcenter.org | 2020-03-25
The SPLC and its allies asked a federal court today to issue a preliminary injunction requiring that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) take immediate steps to protect people in its custody, particularly those who have medical conditions making them more susceptible to serious illness and death from COVID-19.
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/25/splc-and-allies-seek-federal-court-injunction-system-wide-suit-protect-people-detained-ice

British Court Refuses Julian Assange's Bail Plea
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-25
The founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange will not be let out of a London Prison amid the recent COVID-19 outbreak, the British court announced on Wednesday. | RELATED: | Assange Could Be Released on Bail Over the COVID-19 Outbreak | The Westminster Magistrates' Court in London has rejected a plea from the Assange defense team that called on the British authorities to release the Wikileaks founder from the high-security Belmarsh prison. | Judge Vanessa Baraitser, who is overlooking the Assang…
telesurenglish.net/news/British-Court-Refuses-Julian-Assanges-Bail-Plea–20200325-0005.html

Julian Assange denied bail by London court
rt.com | 2020-03-25
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been denied bail by a London court after his lawyers argued that the Covid-19 pandemic posed a serious threat to his health in light of his pre-existing conditions. | Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that the global pandemic "does not provide grounds" for Assange's release. | Also on rt.com | | Julian Assange's lawyers to apply for release on bail, citing risk of Covid-19

Last night Julian Assange called me. Here is what we talked about
Yanis Varoufakis | zcomm.org | 2020-03-25
Whether the epidemic helps deliver the good or the most evil society will depend, of course, on us

The Decade Of Transformation Is Here: Remaking Health Care
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-25
We've been writing for a while that the 2020's would be a decade when multiple crises would come to a head and we would have an opportunity for major transformations if we were organized to mobilize and demand them. The current coronavirus pandemic, economic collapse, and falling oil prices are three events that are creating …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/the-decade-of-transformation-is-here-remaking-health-care/

Power in a Time of Coronavirus
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-03-25
Fighting against intentional neglect and greedy stupidity…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/23/18831742.php

Overlooked Region of India a Beacon to the World for Taking on Coronavirus
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-03-25
In a pandemic, a rational person would much rather live in a society governed by the norms of socialism than of capitalism, a society where people rally together to overcome a virus; than to live in a society where fear pervades…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/overlooked-region-of-india-a-beacon-to-the-world-for-taking-on-coronavirus/

Iran: Campaign to Lift US Sanctions Gets Around 100K Signatures
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-25
Iran's international campaign calling for the United States to lift illegal sanctions will soon reach 100,000 signatures, the state's Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday. | RELATED: | EU Supports Iran, Venezuela Bids for IMF COVID-19 Funds | The signatures of the campaign have passed 97,500 and will reach 100,000 in no time, Abolfazl Fateh, an Iranian media activist wh…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-Campaign-to-Lift-US-Sanctions-Gets-Around-100K-Signatures-20200325-0014.html

Like Freedom? Then You Won't Like the FREEDOM Act
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-25
Last Monday, a bipartisan group of Senators and a coalition including libertarian and progressive activists thwarted a scheme to ram through the Senate legislation renewing three provisions of the USA FREEDOM Act (previously known as the USA PATRIOT Act). The …
globalresearch.ca/like-freedom-freedom-act/5707529

Another Migrant Domestic Worker Found Dead in Lebanon
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-25
The lifeless body of Faustina Tay, 23, a domestic worker from Ghana was found on March 14 in a car park under the fourth-story home of her employers in Beirut, Lebanon, according to a report by Al Jazeera. | RELATED: | Kafala System to Be Abolished in Qatar: UN | Some hours before her death, Tay had sent a last hopeless message to This Is Lebanon, a Canada-based activist group, she had contacted about the abuse she was enduring at the hands of her employer…
telesurenglish.net/news/Another-Migrant-Domestic-Workers-Found-Dead-in-Lebanon–20200325-0013.html

Transitioning 'Ontologically' Pt II: Building Counter-(Oc)Culture
Kim C. Domenico | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-25
Beyond being "disrespectful," the modern Western insistence on a mechanical universe delimits the radical imaginary in general. To refrain from telling the [spiritually-based] activist they are wrong (while continuing to think they are) simply because he or she is a person of color, is altogether different than deconstructing one's colonial mentality, which treats the religious…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/25/transitioning-ontologically-pt-ii-building-counter-occulture/

MN shows solidarity with Palestine during COVID-19 pandemic
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-03-25
Minneapolis, MN – The MN Anti-War Committee (AWC) wanted to be a part of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network's global week of action for Palestinian Land Day but they couldn't do it as a protest the way they had originally planned. Instead on March 24 the MN AWC reorganized their protest as a call-in day, and then did a five-person social distancing bannering protest. | In 1976, Land Day marked a turning point as the first mass mobilization by Palestinians within Israel against colonialism and land theft. Israeli police shot and killed six Palestinian citizens of Israel for protesting the Israeli go…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/3/25/mn-shows-solidarity-palestine-during-covid-19-pandemic

California Nurses Association protest in Oakland against lack of protective gear
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-03-25
Last Friday, I watched around 4 first responders from a fire truck in Oakland respond to the needs of someone that was hauled off to the hospital. I was shocked that the first responders were not wearing any protective gear or N95 respirators. Barely three days later, nurses from the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United held a protest Monday evening March 23, in front of Kaiser Permanente in Oakland. They protested against the lack of protective gear and weakening of standards by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) needed to protect them from getting sick during the coronavirus COVID-19 pand…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/24/18831760.php

WATCH stranded Russian tourists PROTEST at Dubai airport after UAE denies entry to evacuation flight
rt.com | 2020-03-25
Over 1,000 Russian tourists remain stranded in the UAE after cancellation of four FlyDubai flights. Some of them turned to protesting after Dubai denied entry to an evacuation flight

BJP and Israel: Hindu Nationalism is Ravaging India's Democracy
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-03-25
It was only a matter of time before the anti-Muslim sentiment in India turned violent. A country that has historically prided itself on its diversity and tolerance, and for being 'the largest democracy in the world' has, in recent years, exhibited the exact opposite qualities

Coronavirus: What Newsweek Failed to Mention About "Continuity of Government"
Whitney Webb | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-25
Though often discussed in relation to nuclear war or a similarly chaotic scenario, "continuity of government" plans can be triggered even by popular, nonviolent opposition to an unpopular war abroad. It exists solely to keep the current system in place, …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-newsweek-failed-mention-continuity-government/5707521

Socialist Alternative town hall injects racial politics into COVID-19 pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-03-25
The event was an attempt to cover over the conventional Democratic Party politics of Socialist Alternative and the DSA with anti-capitalist rhetoric and empty slogans. This was combined with the foul injection of racial politics, a hallmark of the Democratic Party.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/25/salt-m25.html

FRSO online forum: A people's response to the coronavirus crisis
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-03-25
Minneapolis, MN – The world is the midst of a once-in-a-century disease pandemic. COVID-19 is a natural phenomenon that is quickly becoming a human disaster. | Steff Yorek, political secretary of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) states, "We know that all the politicians serve the interests of the rich. We need to demand and win concessions that benefit poor and working people. This will be literally a life or death situation and will fall on those with the least resources the most." | Join us for an on-line forum addressing how capitalism fails to address the public health crisis, brings impending e…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/3/24/frso-online-forum-people-s-response-coronavirus-crisis

The World's Major Military and Economic Powers Find Happiness Elusive
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-03-25
Long before the advent of the coronavirus pandemic left people around the world desperate for survival, a popular assumption emerged that national governments are also supposed to promote the happiness and well-being of their citizens. This idea was expressed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed that governments are instituted to secure humanity's…
zcomm.org/zblogs/the-worlds-major-military-and-economic-powers-find-happiness-elusive/

The US and China Are Intensely Competing to Shape the Outcome of "World War C"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-25
While everyone was worried of what they believed would inevitably be World War III, mankind suddenly found itself fighting World War C against COVID-19 instead, which has since become the single most globally disruptive event in human history. | The entire | …
globalresearch.ca/us-china-competing-shape-outcome-world-war-c/5707541

Depression USA: Dueling Dems and Republicans "Stimulus Plans" and Fed Shenanigans
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-25
First the Fed. Key is understanding that it's not federal. | It's owned and operated by major Wall Street banks, their interests its top priority. | Its dual mandate is supposed to be maximum employment and price stability. How it operates is …
globalresearch.ca/dueling-dem-gop-stimulus-plans-fed-shenanigans/5707399

Poland Sabotages Russian Coronavirus Relief Efforts for Italy
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-25
Russia has encountered problems in delivering humanitarian aid to Italy, with assistance struggling to be reached quickly due to the hostilities of many European Union/NATO countries towards Russia. Yesterday it was revealed that Poland did not let Russian planes pass …
globalresearch.ca/poland-sabotages-russian-coronavirus-relief-efforts-italy/5707472

As Governments Struggle to Contain Coronavirus, Doctors Get Inventive
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-03-25
From "full-on MacGyver" ventilators to homemade test kits, doctors – and even some governments – are turning to ingenious solutions in the face of a faltering global response.
mintpressnews.com/governments-grapple-coronavirus-homemade-inventions/266065/

Media Struggle to Defend Washington's Cruelty Toward Venezuela and Iran as Coronavirus Spreads
Joe Emersberger | fair.org | 2020-03-25
AP (New York Times, 3/17/20) accepts the IMF's excuse that lack of "clarity" over Venezuela's "rightful leader" prevents it from giving the country coronavirus aid–even though in 2002, the IMF rapidly offered aid to a short-lived coup government. | An Associated Press article (New York Times, 3/17/20) headlined "IMF Rejects Maduro's Bid for Emergency Loan to Fight Virus" declared: The r…
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Calls Grow for Sen. Burr to Resign After He Sold $1.7 Million in Stocks & Downplayed COVID-19 Risks
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-25
Calls are growing for Republican Senator Richard Burr to resign after he reportedly sold up to $1.7 million worth of stocks after receiving privileged briefings about the coronavirus's threat to the global economy. ProPublica reports Burr, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, unloaded his holdings on February 13 in 33 separate transactions. At the time, he had access to classified information about the coronavirus and was receiving daily intelligence briefings. The stock market began plummeting a week after Burr's sales and has since lost about 30% of its value. We speak with Derek Willis of ProPublica…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/25/senator_richard_burr_stocks_coronavirus

Frontline NY Nurses Lack Protective Masks & Ventilators, Say Worst Yet to Come as COVID-19 Spreads
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-25
As the New York metro area has 60% of all the new coronavirus cases in the United States and is responsible for half the cases all over the country, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the number of hospitalizations is expected to peak in the next 40 days as hospitals are already encountering shortages of equipment needed to protect medical workers and to keep patients alive when the city's COVID-19 cases peak in the coming weeks. We're joined by two people on the frontlines of the pandemic: Sean Petty, a registered nurse in the pediatric emergency room of a public hospital in the Bronx and member of the…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/25/frontline_healthcare_workers_ppe_shortage_coronavirus

"People Go Before Money. This Is About Saving Lives," Says San Juan Mayor on Pandemic in Puerto Rico
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-25
Puerto Rico announced a record $787 million financial package to fight the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic Monday, as the island's death toll hits two with 39 cases reported. The pandemic follows a series of devastating earthquakes in Puerto Rico earlier this year and comes as the island continues to deal with fallout from Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico's infrastructure and killed at least 3,000. "One of the things that I think is evident is that with the Trump administration and FEMA, we have to continue to remind them, time and time again, that we are people and that we deserve to be…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/25/puerto_rico_coronavirus_carmen_yulin_cruz

Madrid's Ice Rink Turned to Morgue as Spain Exceeds China in Coronavirus Deaths
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-25
We go to Madrid, Spain, one of the epicenters of the pandemic in Europe, where health workers account for nearly 14% of the country's infections. Many face limited availability of protective equipment. So many people have died that Madrid's municipal funeral home has stopped collecting bodies. A large ice rink is now being used as a makeshift morgue, and the government plans to extend the state of emergency by another 15 days in order to stop the spread of the coronavirus. "If Madrid was a country, it would actually be fifth in terms of death rate in the entire world," says María Carrión, journalist and former De…
www.democracynow.org/2020/3/25/maria_carrion_spain_coronavirus

Video: SDF Releases Tens of ISIS Members in Eastern Syria. Turkey, Russia Struggle with Idlib De-escalation
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-25
On March 23, Russian and Turkish forces carried out a second limited joint patrol in southern Idlib. The patrol involved six armoured vehicles and took place along a short chunk of the M4 highway west of the government-controlled town of …
globalresearch.ca/video-sdf-releases-isis-members-eastern-syria-turkey-russia-struggle-idlib-de-escalation/5707476

Palestine Demands Israel Release Prisoners Amid Virus Outbreak
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-25
Palestine on Wednesday urged Israel to immediately release over 5,000 Palestinian prisoners from its jails amidst an outbreak of COVID-19 in the country. | RELATED: | Israel Controls 95 Percent of Occupied Jordan Valley: Official | In a press statement, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Israeli Prisons Service (IPS) is not providing proper health protection to Palestinian prisoners, despite an alarming increase of coronavirus cases in Israel. | "Israel is in…
telesurenglish.net/news/Palestine-Demands-Israel-Release-Prisoners-Amid-Virus-Outbreak-20200325-0004.html

Experts Explain Why COVID-19 Seems More Fatal in Men Than Women
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-25
Existing data show the novel coronavirus has caused higher mortality in men than women. Besides general poor health and habits like smoking and drinking for men that may cause damage to the lungs, leading experts told Xinhua hormonal influences on the immune response may also play a vital role in this phenomenon. | RELATED: | Spain's COVID-19 Death Toll Overtakes China's | While addressing a White House daily briefing, Dr. Deborah Birx, White House COVID-19 task force director, said a report from…
telesurenglish.net/news/Experts-Explain-Why-COVID-19-Seems-More-Fatal-in-Men-Than-Women-20200325-0015.html

Two Fiat Chrysler workers die from COVID-19 in US
wsws.org | 2020-03-25
The deaths, at FCA Sterling Heights Assembly in the Detroit area and at Kokomo Transmission in Indiana, are the predictable outcome of the combined effort by the auto companies and the UAW to keep the plants running up until last week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/25/auto-m25.html

'Whole of humanity' at stake in Covid-19 pandemic, UN chief warns in urgent plea to 'fight back'
rt.com | 2020-03-25
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned that the "whole of humanity" is in danger of the coronavirus crisis, and we must all fight against it. | "Global action and solidarity are crucial. Individual country responses are not going to be enough," Guterres said on Wednesday. | The secretary general said the Covid-19 crisis is unlike anything the UN has faced in its 75-year history and is pleading with the developed world to raise trillions of dollars to help poorer countries fight off the deadly viral scourge. | The UN is launching a $2 billion program to help the world's poor fight against the coronavi…
rt.com/news/484075-coronavirus-threatens-all-humanity-un/

Caribbean Governments Join Forces Against COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-25
The Health and Foreign Ministers of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) held Tuesday the first extraordinary meeting of the regional bloc on COVID-19, during which the delegations proposed joint actions to confront the pandemic. | RELATED: | COVID-19 in the Caribbean: Overview of the Situation, Outbreak | More than 33 countries, territories, and regional organizations participated in what was called the First Extraordinary Meeting of Health and Foreign Ministers of the ACS, wh…
telesurenglish.net/news/-Caribbean-Governments-Join-Forces-Against-COVID-19-20200325-0018.html

The coronavirus crisis is proving our current economic system to be a death cult
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-03-25
In the weeks since the new coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread around the globe, the stock market has been going haywire with abrupt ups and downs. In the midst of the chaos, the US government has been on the fence about how to respond. The reason is simple

Police called to disperse Georgia meat processing workers who walked off the job Monday over concerns about the spread of COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-03-25
The walkout of Perdue workers follows a Monday report that a slaughterhouse worker in Mississippi was sent home after testing positive for COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/25/perd-m25.html

'I'm so happy I can barely speak': Trump responds to Romney's negative coronavirus, gets bashed for 'sarcasm'
rt.com | 2020-03-25
President Donald Trump says Senator Mitt Romney not having coronavirus is "really great news," but he followed that up by slamming him as a "RINO" and "terrible presidential candidate." | Romney announced this week he has tested negative for Covid-19 following a move into self-isolation in Utah after he discovered Senator Rand Paul

These Kids Are in the Crosshairs of Covid-19
Sara Luterman | thenation.com | 2020-03-25
These Kids Are in the Crosshairs of Covid-19…
thenation.com/article/society/immunocomprised-children-coronavirus/

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