6 Ways Trump Is Exploiting This Pandemic For Political Gain
Karen J. Greenberg | thenation.com | 2020-04-08
6 Ways Trump Is Exploiting This Pandemic For Political Gain…
thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-trump-immigration-election/
Deaths of Inequality
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | zcomm.org | 2020-04-08
Black and Latinx Communities at Epicenter of Epicenter of the Pandemic…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/deaths-of-inequality/
Be A Hero: COVID-19 w/ Ady Barka, Rep. A. Ocasio-Cortez, & Rahna Epting of MoveOn
Be A Hero Fund, MoveOn | indybay.org | 2020-04-08
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/07/18832151.php
Migrants in detention in Texas face COVID-19
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2020-04-08
Austin, Texas Migrants being held in detention in Texas have been facing abhorrent sanitary conditions in the detention facilities long before the coronavirus pandemic began. Now that the virus is here, and threatens to infect such a vulnerable and captive population at higher rates than the general population, many migrants . . . | Continue reading Migrants in detention in Texas face COVID-19 at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/47542/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=migrants-in-detention-in-texas-face-covid-19
San Diego "Honk for Justice" Calls for the Release of people in ICE Detention
repost | indybay.org | 2020-04-08
Author Pedro Rios serves as director of the AFSC's U.S./Mexico Border Program and has been on staff with AFSC since 2003. He is a steering committee member of the Southern Border Communities Coalition, which brings together over 60 organizations along the Southern border working to support migrants and border communities.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/05/18832119.php
San Francisco: Mayor Breed Opts for Mass Indoor Camps
Quiver Watts, Street Sheet | indybay.org | 2020-04-08
While hundreds of advocates have been desperately contacting Mayor London Breed imploring her to place homeless people in hotel rooms and vacant units, it seems she has her own plan for addressing poverty during the pandemic: opening indoor camps to further concentrate vulnerable people.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/05/18832122.php
Julian Assange and Lockdown Injustice
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
Scribes covering the Julian Assange case must surely gawk with a sense of horrified wonder at each proceeding unfolding at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. Assange is in a battle that can only be described as titanic, seeking to …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-lockdown-injustice/5709059
Prisons: Breeding Grounds for Disease. Julian Assange's Life in Danger
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
The US gulag prison system is the world's largest by far, the largely unreported in the mainstream shame of the nation. | Official numbers significantly understate the true number of incarcerated inmates annually. | According to a Prison Policy Initiative analysis, nearly …
globalresearch.ca/prisons-breeding-grounds-disease-julian-assange-danger/5709067
Vindictive court rulings prove British state wants Assange dead
wsws.org | 2020-04-08
Judge Vanessa Baraitser has decreed that Assange will remain behind bars and that his extradition show-trial will proceed in May, even as the coronavirus pandemic spreads rapidly in British prisons.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/08/pers-a08.html
Julian Assange and Lockdown Injustice
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-08
Scribes of the Julian Assange case must surely gawk with a sense of horrified wonder at each proceeding unfolding at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London. Assange is in a battle that can only be described as titanic, seeking to avoid the clutches of the US Justice Department, not to mention its legal system, and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/julian-assange-and-lockdown-injustice/
COVID-19 Coronavirus "Fake" Pandemic: Timeline and Analysis
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
On January 30, a far-reaching decision was taken by the WHO without the support of expert opinion at a time when the coronavirus outbreak was limited to Mainland China. 150 confirmed cases outside China, when the decision was taken, 6 in the US, 3 in Canada, 2 in the UK, etc. In early March, 430 cases in the US.
globalresearch.ca/ncov-2019-coronavirus-time-line/5705776
After the Lockdown: A Global Coronavirus Vaccination Program
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
The tendency is towards a Worldwide lockdown spearheaded by fear and media disinformation. Currently, hundreds of millions of people Worldwide are under lockdown. | What is the next step in the evolution of the COV-19 Crisis? A multibillion dollar coronavirus vaccination program to be implemented in the wake of the Lockdown.
globalresearch.ca/after-the-lockdown-a-global-coronavirus-vaccination-program/5706547
The Pandemic Makes the Bernie 2020 Campaign More Vital Than Ever
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-04-08
Reasons to stay in the race are ample and solid…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/06/18832133.php
Correcting the Sentinel's Latest Errors
Robert Norse & Keith McHenry | indybay.org | 2020-04-08
Food Not Bombs activist Keith McHenry corrects errors, omissions, and distoertions in Sentinel writer Jessica York's recent story "Santa Cruz County launches joint homelessness task force in coronavirus pandemic; Food Not Bombs expands food distribution" (4 PM, April 4th) at www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/04/04/santa-cruz-county-launches-joint-homelessness-task-force-in-coronavirus-pandemic .
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/05/18832118.php
Updates from Santa Cruz's Struggling Benchlands Meal & Santa Barbara's Peter Marin
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2020-04-08
Santa Barbara activist Peter Marin blasts Santa Barbara's "Let 'Em Die: " Lack of Services. Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs activist Keith McHenry Calls for More Volunteers, Warns Local Authorities Violate CDC Safeguards for Those Outside…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/04/18832103.php
Martin Khor: The Making of a Global Activist
Walden Bello | zcomm.org | 2020-04-08
The late Martin Khor united activists, officials, and thought leaders against trade and climate policies that plundered the Global South. Here's how his comrades remember him…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/martin-khor-the-making-of-a-global-activist/
UN suspends deployment and rotation of peacekeeping troops worldwide due to coronavirus pandemic
rt.com | 2020-04-08
The United Nations has ordered its military and police forces across the globe to suspend rotation in an effort to mitigate the spread of the deadly coronavirus. | The suspension will stay in effect until June 30, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, told reporters on Tuesday. | "There is no movement of troops, coming in or out… A few, limited exceptions may be considered," Dujarric told CBS News. | The spokesperson explained that the order applies not only to formed military and police units, but to individual officers as well. | The UN currently has 13 active peacekeeping missi…
rt.com/news/485242-un-suspends-al-peacekeeping-deployments/
When "Moderate" Democrats Lead the Ticket and Win, Down-Ballot Candidates Soon Suffer Losses
Rick Baum | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-08
Many mainstream Democrats claim if "democratic socialist" Sanders were their party's presidential nominee, many party candidates running in down-ballot races would lose in races they should win. They warn that a Sanders' led ticket could result in the Democrats not regaining control of the Senate and even losing their majority in the House along with…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/08/when-moderate-democrats-lead-the-ticket-and-win-down-ballot-candidates-soon-suffer-losses/
Corporate Buybacks Artificially Inflated Stock Prices to Bubble Levels
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
For many years on Wall Street, stock prices and true valuations diverged sharply
US deal with Taliban breaks down while coronavirus spreads in Afghanistan
wsws.org | 2020-04-08
The Taliban has withdrawn from talks with the crisis-ridden Kabul regime over its failure to act on a prisoner release agreement brokered by Washington.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/08/afgh-a08.html
COVID-19 in Democratic Republic of the Congo (CRC): Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst
Dr. Jean-Claude Maswana | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
This week I spoke to Congolese native Jean-Claude Maswana, economics professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, about COVID-19 in DRC. | ANN GARRISON: Jean-Claude, reporting on your homeland, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is always daunting. It's not …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-drc-hoping-best-preparing-worst/5709047
As Washington Privatized Pandemic Preparation, the National Security State Left Americans Defenseless Against Coronavirus
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
Responsibility for pandemic preparation was privatized under the Obama and Trump administrations. It's time to face down the national security state that wasted trillions on imperial wars and abandoned Americans to fight coronavirus alone. | *** | Donald Trump's failure to …
globalresearch.ca/washington-privatized-pandemic-preparation-national-security-state-left-americans-defenseless-against-coronavirus/5709099
Billionaire "Job Creators" and the Keyboard Revolutionaries Who Enable Their Candidates
Michael K. Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-08
Capitalism's "invisible hand" gives us the middle finger with ever more contempt these days. With the national unemployment rate soaring to Depression-era levels and beyond, the self-proclaimed "job creators" of our glorious free-market paradise are now drowning in gluttonous excess from sucking the tit of the "Nanny State" they allegedly abhor. While workers are prohibited …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/billionaire-job-creators-and-the-keyboard-revolutionaries-who-enable-their-candidates/
Montana Ballot Access Decision Suppresses Green Party Voters
Steve Kelly | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-08
In 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court held that unequal distribution requirements for statewide petitions violate the Fourteenth Amendment. Again in 1970, citing the 1969 Illinois case, the SCOTUS struck down New York's distribution requirements. Distribution requirements give voters in some geographical areas more power than voters residing in other areas in blatant disregard for a…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/08/montana-ballot-access-decision-suppresses-green-party-voters/
Video: Infighting Among Turkish Proxies Erupts in Syria. Rocket Strike Hits US-operated Oil Facility in Iraq
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
Infighting among Turkish-backed groups has erupted near the town of Ras al-Ayn. According to local sources, conflicts over the captured houses and looted properties became the main reason of the conflict between members of the Sultan Murad armed group which …
globalresearch.ca/video-infighting-among-turkish-proxies-syria-rocket-strike-hits-us-operated-oil-facility-iraq/5709044
Video: US Confirms Deployment of Patriot Missiles in Iraq. Iran Prepares for Conflict in Strait of Hormuz
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
On April 5, a series of large explosions rocked the village of al-Kastan in southwestern Idlib injuring 8 people, including 3 members of the so-called White Helmets. According to local sources, an ammunition depot located in the civilian area inside …
globalresearch.ca/video-us-confirms-deployment-patriot-missiles-iraq-iran-prepares-conflict-hormuz/5708899
Open Letter to Condemn Trump Administration's Hypocritical Indictment on Drug Charges of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and High-Ranking Venezuelan Officials
Alliance for Global Justice | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
We, the undersigned organizations and prominent individuals, condemn the false claims of criminal charges by the US government against the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other high-ranking officials with the pretext of their alleged involvement in international …
globalresearch.ca/open-letter-condemn-trump-administration-drug-charges-venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-high-ranking-venezuelan-officials/5709043
Venezuela Pres Maduro's Message to American people
repost | indybay.org | 2020-04-08
Oil rich Venezuela is again threatened with invasion, by Nazi Trump, with no opposition from any Democrat, sending an armada to Venezuela's shores, in the middle of a pandemic, under the obviously false pretext of drug-pushing, which the world knows Venezuela does not do. The democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro has sent an open letter to the American people. See www.globalresearch.ca/letter-president-maduro-people-united-states/5708882…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/07/18832148.php
The Green New Deal and the State: Lessons from World War II–Part I
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2020-04-08
There is growing interest in a Green New Deal, but far too little discussion among supporters about the challenging nature of the required economic transformation, the necessary role of public planning and ownership in shaping it, or the strategies necessary to institutionalize a strong worker-community voice in the process and final outcome.
mronline.org/2020/04/08/the-green-new-deal-and-the-state-lessons-from-world-war-ii-part-i/
The Coronavirus Pandemic, Like Other Global Catastrophes, Reveals the Limitations of Nationalism
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-08
We live with a profound paradox. Our lives are powerfully affected by worldwide economic, communications, transportation, food supply, and entertainment systems. Yet we continue an outdated faith in the nation-state, with all the divisiveness, competition, and helplessness that faith produces when dealing with planetary problems. As we have seen in recent weeks, the coronavirus, like …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/the-coronavirus-pandemic-like-other-global-catastrophes-reveals-the-limitations-of-nationalism/
Biden Says He 'Doesn't Have Enough Information' on Iran to Have a View
Robert Fisk | zcomm.org | 2020-04-08
How Odd, He Negotiated the Nuclear Deal…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/biden-says-he-doesnt-have-enough-information-on-iran-to-have-a-view/
The Cruel Truth Behind Wisconsin's Uncancelled Election
Bill Lueders | progressive.org | 2020-04-08
State Republicans exploited the coronavirus crisis in an effort to elect a state Supreme Court candidate who objects to the idea of government helping people in need.
progressive.org/dispatches/cruel-truth-wisconsin-uncancelled-election-lueders-200408/
People die as capitalists profit from pandemic crisis
| workers.org | 2020-04-08
By Lucy Cruz April 3
Prisoners resist execution by virus
Gloria Rubac | workers.org | 2020-04-08
On a good day, most of the 5,000 prisons and jails in the U.S. are filthy hellholes. Medical care is seriously lacking and can be costly. Racism is ingrained in these institutions, and violence is often the order of the day. Right now, prisoners are terrified that as the COVID-19 . . . | Continue reading Prisoners resist execution by virus at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/47540/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=prisoners-resist-execution-by-virus
Rosemary Neidenberg: a long and valued life
Deirdre Griswold | workers.org | 2020-04-08
Rosemary Neidenberg had reached the age of 99 before she died on March 29. But losing her then was still too soon and too sad for all her comrades, family and friends. Rosie was a treasure, a loving hug, an encyclopedia of past memories. She was beautiful in every way, . . . | Continue reading Rosemary Neidenberg: a long and valued life at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/47547/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rosemary-neidenberg-a-long-and-valued-life
Interview: Amazon worker battles billionaire Bezos
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2020-04-08
Chris Smalls is a former Amazon worker who was fired for organizing a March 30 walkout at the JFK8 Amazon facility in Staten Island, N.Y. Bosses refused to close the facility despite confirmed cases of COVID-19 among the workers. In the aftermath of Smalls' wrongful termination, a leaked memo from . . . | Continue reading Interview: Amazon worker battles billionaire Bezos at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/04/47554/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-amazon-worker-battles-billionaire-bezos
Texas ban seeks to overturn legal abortion
Sue Davis | workers.org | 2020-04-08
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Mayo Clinic joins community efforts urging people to #StoptheSpread during COVID-19 pandemic
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-08
Jeff Bolton, Mayo Clinic's chief administrative officer, joins other community leaders in Rochester, Minn., in sharing the message that the best defense against COVID-19 is for people to stay home. ROCHESTER, Minn.
Number of coronavirus cases across 81 Russian regions rises by record 1,175 to 8,672
rt.com | 2020-04-08
The number of novel coronavirus cases in Russia has risen by 1,175 over the past day
Seminary student from Russia disinfecting thoroughfares in Qom
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-08
QOM, Apr. 08 (MNA)
Iran welcomes Russia's idea of green corridors: FM Zarif
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-08
TEHRAN, Apr. 08 (MNA)
The COVID-19 Catastrophe: A Global Platform to Take Legal Action against the WHO and Corrupt Governments
Jose Francisco Fernández-Bullón | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
Although there seems to be a passive acceptance by citizens of the measures imposed due to the fake coronavirus epidemic, this resignation is largely the consequence of the absence of leaders leading an effective resistance against the disguised coup d'état. …
globalresearch.ca/global-platform-sue-global-authorities/5708834
Video: How COVID-19 Death Certificates Are Being Manipulated. Montana Physician Dr. Annie Bukacek
Dr. Annie Bukacek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
Dr. Annie Bukacek is a longtime Montana physician with over 30 years experience practicing medicine. Signing death certificates is a routine part of her job. | In this brief video, Dr. Bukacek blows the whistle on the way the CDC is …
globalresearch.ca/video-montana-physician-dr-annie-bukacek-discusses-how-covid-19-death-certificates-manipulated/5709062
Neoliberalism, Climate Change and the Future of Architecture
Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
Introduction | What is the future for architecture in these times of climate change and economic crises? Should sustainability and affordability be a major factor in the design and development of future buildings? What about aesthetics? There are many individual examples …
globalresearch.ca/neoliberalism-climate-change-future-architecture/5709033
More People Died of Suicide Last Week in Tennessee Than COVID-19
Mac Slavo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
As we previously warned, this pandemic will bankrupt and kill more people from suicide than the virus will. When you sacrifice people's livelihoods, you create a difficult situation of desperation for many who will see no other way out. | We …
globalresearch.ca/more-people-died-of-suicide-last-week-in-tennessee-than-covid-19/5709093
Coronavirus: The Great Geopolitical Leveller
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
Coronavirus is indiscriminate. We have seen young and old affected, rich and poor. In the UK alone, we have seen the Prime Minister himself succumb to it and even Prince Charles. But this pandemic has repercussions beyond our nation states…
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-great-geopolitical-leveller/5708878
They Told Us So. "This Was Not a Strike out of the Blue". Towards A New World Order
Jim Miles | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
I cannot say "I told you so" because I did not. But I can say "They told us so" because they did. "They" being the alternate media that provided news and views that the mainstream media (MSM) would not touch …
globalresearch.ca/they-told-us-so-this-was-not-a-strike-out-of-the-blue-towards-new-world-order/5708774
UK- Australia COVID-19 Deaths, Deprivation Deaths in Developing Countries, Indigenous Avoidable Deaths
Gideon Polya | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
We are all shocked by the Covid-19-related carnage in Western Europe and the US in particular and fervently hope for an early end to the disaster. However it is timely to note huge avoidable deaths from deprivation in the Developing …
globalresearch.ca/uk-australian-covid-19-deaths-versus-developing-country-indigenous-avoidable-deaths-deprivation/5708948
Coronavirus Disease 2019 vs. the Flu
Lisa Lockerd Maragakis, M.D., M.P.H. | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
This comparative analysis by a prominent physician and scholar should reassure people. The media fear campaign tends to describe COV-19 as a dangerous and life threatening infection. | *** | Influenza (the flu) and COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus…
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-disease-2019-flu/5708689
As pandemic rages in New York, new budget allows for massive cuts in social programs
wsws.org | 2020-04-08
The newly enacted New York state budget, regardless of its nominal contents, will inevitably lead to major attacks on the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/08/nysb-a08.html