2020-04-11: Social Media Postees

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Trump Welcomes More Guest Workers Amid Crisis While Rejecting Asylum Seekers
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-11
Two recent news items neatly sum up U.S. immigration policy during the COVID-19 crisis. | Asylum seekers are now being turned away at the border without even a chance to make their asylum claims; the excuse for the new policy is a March 20 order from the…
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Assange's Extradition: Incarceration in the Time of Covid-19 Threatens His Life
Nozomi Hayase | commondreams.org | 2020-04-11
Demonstrators protest outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London on October 21, 2019. (Photo: Isabel Infantes/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/assange_coronavirus.jpg …
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A year since the arrest of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2020-04-11
Assange's arrest was an historic crime, setting a precedent for escalating attacks on press freedom and the democratic rights of the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/11/assa-a11.html

Bernie's Decision: Retreat Should Not Be Confused with Surrender
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-04-11
Class war continues without a letup…
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Colombia's Government Acts Like Doormat for U.S
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-04-11
–and Its People Aren't Going Along With It…
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[Comment] Centring sexual and reproductive health and justice in the global COVID-19 response
Kelli Stidham Hall, Goleen Samari, Samantha Garbers, Sara E Casey, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Miriam Orcutt, Rachel T Moresky, Micaela Elvira Martinez, Terry McGovern | thelancet.com | 2020-04-11
Global responses to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are converging with pervasive, existing sexual and reproductive health and justice inequities to disproportionately impact the health, wellbeing, and economic stability of women, girls, and vulnerable populations. People whose human rights are least protected are likely to experience unique difficulties from COVID-19.1 Women, girls, and marginalised groups are likely to carry a heavier burden of what will be the devastating downstream economic and social consequences of this pandemic.
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[Comment] Offline: COVID-19–bewilderment and candour
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-04-11
"This disease is unlike anything I have seen before. If you end up on ICU, you are potentially in real trouble. I have never seen anything like it before." These words were written by one intensive care physician working at a London teaching hospital. As deaths accumulate, the early message that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 causes mostly a mild illness has been shown to be dangerously false. One in five patients develop complications and are at grave risk. A further misunderstanding concerns age.
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[Editorial] Palliative care and the COVID-19 pandemic
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-04-11
Palliative care services are under-resourced at the best of times. The 2017 Lancet Commission on Palliative Care and Pain Relief described the widespread lack of access to inexpensive and effective interventions as a travesty of justice. And these are not the best of times. As health systems become strained under COVID-19, providing safe and effective palliative care, including end-of-life care, becomes especially vital and especially difficult.
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[World Report] Virtual health care in the era of COVID-19
Paul Webster | thelancet.com | 2020-04-11
Patients are under lockdown and health workers are at risk of infection. Paul Webster reports on how telemedicine is being embraced like never before.
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[World Report] Regulators split on antimalarials for COVID-19
Susan Jaffe | thelancet.com | 2020-04-11
US and French authorities have authorised the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, but the EU regulator and WHO say the science doesn't support the decision. Susan Jaffe reports.
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The US Seeks to Set New Military Base in Syria Amid Pandemic
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-11
President Donald Trump administration on Friday deployed a military convoy in Syria to establish a new base in this Arab nation. | RELATED: | Erdogan, Merkel, Macron, Johnson Address Situation of Syria | A caravan of 35 trucks loaded with vehicles and warfare and logistics materials headed for the city of Shadadi, in the southern Hasakeh province, 866 kilometers northeast of Damascus, as reported by outlet Ikhbariya TV. | Local activists reported on the convoy as it was traveling on…
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Will This Public Health Crisis Lead to a Voting Rights Crisis?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-11
Welcome to Moyers on Democracy. | Bill's guest in this episode is the journalist David Daley. His best-selling first book, Ratf**ked

Rapid spread of COVID-19 in US meat processing facilities
wsws.org | 2020-04-11
Coronavirus has hit the US meatpacking industry, provoking worker protests, short-term closures and an outburst by Vice President Mike Pence.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/11/meat-a11.html

Sanders "Broke the Spell" of Neoliberalism
Naomi Klein | zcomm.org | 2020-04-11
Interview about Bernie Sanders's historic presidential campaign and coronavirus capitalism

Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Help Curb War and Militarism?
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-11
Decades ago, when I began teaching international history, I used to ask students if they thought it was possible for nations to end their fighting of wars against one another. Their responses varied. But the more pessimistic conclusions were sometimes tempered by the contention that, if the world's nations faced a common foe, such as …
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John Pilger: Can we trust our governments in what they say to us about Coronavirus? No, we can't, absolutely not!
John Pilger | mronline.org | 2020-04-11
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and film-maker John Pilger about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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COVID-19: Capitalist Crisis & Socialist Solutions
Bob P | indybay.org | 2020-04-11
Online Forum: Join via internet or phone. | Register here: | zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYof-mhqjwsjeCVfc5xIsy7Yuf-wngN4g…
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St. Vincent & Grenadines, Grenada Thank Venezuela for Donations
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-11
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves appreciated the COVID-19 screening tests that Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro sent to his country on Saturday. | RELATED: | Venezuela Donates COVID-19 Tests to Caribbean Countries | "We have received 3,000 rapid test kits for the COVID-19 and a relevant quantity of reagents for the PCR test,"
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Venezuela Donates COVID-19 Tests to Caribbean Countries
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-11
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez reported Friday that the Bolivarian Government donated rapid and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests to several Caribbean countries to help them in the fight against COVID-19. | RELATED: | COVID-19 in the Caribbean: Overview of the Situation, Outbreak | Rodríguez said that, by order of President Nicolas Maduro, tests were sent to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua, and Barbuda, as well as Dominica and Grenada. | "To our brothers in…
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To Heal From COVID-19, We Must Imagine a Different World
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-04-11
Neoliberal indoctrination has pampered big business and Wall Street into believing that corporate socialism will always be theirs for the asking…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/to-heal-from-covid-19-we-must-imagine-a-different-world/

China sends virologists & aid to Russia ahead of its Covid-19 peak
rt.com | 2020-04-11
Just out of its own fight against the coronavirus, China has sent several tons of medical supplies as well as a team of virologists and doctors that will share their firsthand experience with their Russian colleagues. | Invited by the city authorities of Moscow, the Chinese medical team boarded their flight on Saturday, Russia's consulate in Harbin, China said. The task force is comprised of "renowned Chinese virologists and doctors who have huge clinical experience and practical knowledge," the consulate stated. | | © Russian Consulate in Harbin | The mission, run by China's National Health Commission…
rt.com/news/485567-china-russia-coronavirus-aid/

Iran names conditions for passengers returning home from Russia
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-11
TEHRAN, Apr. 11 (MNA)

First group of volunteers assembled as Russia prepares for human testing of Covid-19 vaccine
rt.com | 2020-04-11
The initial human volunteers have been selected to test a Russian vaccine against the deadly new coronavirus in trials set to begin in late June. The project's chief developer is leading by example by taking his place among them. | Work on the biological preparation began in February at the Vector Institute, Russia's leading virology and biotechnology research center. It's based in Novosibirsk, the largest city in Siberia. Earlier in April, researchers announced that the vaccine had successfully passed trials on mice and ferrets, with preparations for human testing in full swing. | The first stage will see 60…
rt.com/russia/485578-russia-coronavirus-vaccine-human-testing/

Ambulances create traffic jams outside Moscow hospitals as Covid-19 patients keep coming (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-04-11
While heavy traffic is no longer an issue on Moscow's roads due to the coronavirus lockdown, the city's emergency medical response teams have encountered another unexpected problem

'They will not let that happen': OPEC cuts won't close Russian oil wells which would be impossible to reopen, says Novak
rt.com | 2020-04-11
Oil producers will not shut down any facilities where they would be unable to relaunch operations, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said, as the OPEC and non-cartel oil producers continued talks on historic output cuts. | Speaking to the Russia-1 news channel on Saturday, the chief energy official said that he believes the oil companies themselves "will not let that happen." | Novak was addressing earlier fears that, in order to comply with massive OPEC cuts to boost the tumbling oil market, Russia will have to stop operations at low-production oil wells. Some analysts earlier told TASS that many such f…
rt.com/business/485563-russia-oil-wells-closures/

1st squad of volunteers assembled as Russia prepares for human testing of Covid-19 vaccine
rt.com | 2020-04-11
The fist team of people who will test a Russian vaccine against the coronavirus on themselves

Anti-5G fever spreads to the Netherlands as towers suffer 'arson and sabotage'
rt.com | 2020-04-11
Several 5G broadcasting masts across the Netherlands were damaged in what authorities have described as "a worrying development." Similar acts of sabotage have previously been seen in the UK. | The Netherlands has experienced a string of arson attacks in the past fortnight, with the latest one happening on Friday in the northern city of Groningen, according to a report by newspaper De Telegraaf. The outlet cites Rob Bongelaar, director of the Monet Foundation, an industry group in…
rt.com/news/485561-russia-coronavirus-daily-record/

Reporting Your Neighbors for Violating Stay-At-Home Orders
MICK | indybay.org | 2020-04-11
David Cole, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) stated: "All kinds of constitutional liberties are being constrained right now. They are restricted because there's a reason to restrict them. In a time like this, you have to defer substantially to public health experts." But does this mean that we should be ratting-out our neighbors for violating COVID-19 stay-at-home orders?>…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/11/18832276.php

Rouhani stresses tech coop. with countries in pandemic battle
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-11
TEHRAN, Apr. 11 (MNA)

Unprecedented: US becomes 1st country to report 2,000+ Covid-19 deaths in SINGLE DAY, breaking global record
rt.com | 2020-04-11
The US has counted more than 2,000 Covid-19 fatalities in the space of 24 hours, smashing all previous daily death tolls worldwide as the US outbreak shows little sign of abating, according to Johns Hopkins University. | On Friday, 2,108 new deaths were reported in the US, data gathered by Johns Hopkins shows, putting the US' total at over 18,600, just shy of Italy's death toll, the overall leader in fatalities globally. | After Thursday's casualty count saw a brief drop-off, deaths again surged on Friday, the country's deadliest day yet. | Though US President Donald Trump has stated that the US' epidemic is n…
rt.com/usa/485553-coronavirus-record-us-deaths/

6 Iranian titles screened online in New Zealand
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-11
TEHRAN, Apr. 11 (MNA)

Public backlash as star journo Ross Kemp allowed into Covid-19 ward, but visits remain off limits for mortals
rt.com | 2020-04-11
Relatives and friends of Covid-19 patients aren't allowed to visit their loved ones in hospital. But celebrity journalist Ross Kemp and his camera crew are. Commenters on twitter are furious. | More than 78,000 cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus have been recorded in the UK, with more than 1,500 of these critical. Owing to the risk of transmission, the National Health Service (NHS) last week suspended all hospital visits "with immediate effect and until furth…
rt.com/uk/485587-ross-kemp-coronavirus-hospital/

US blocks IMF loan for Iran's fight against COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-04-11
The denial of desperately needed aid as Iran confronts one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world is part of a US sanctions regime that is tantamount to a state of war.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/11/iran-a11.html

Cuba enraged over 'cruel & genocidal' US blockade impeding anti-coronavirus efforts
rt.com | 2020-04-11
The suffocating sanctions in place for almost six decades make it extremely difficult for the island nation to import essential supplies needed to battle the coronavirus, Cuban health officials say. | "The United States' economic-financial blockade is the most unfair, severe, prolonged system of sanctions of all time by one country against another," Nestor Marimon, the Cuban Health Ministry's international relations director, told re…
rt.com/news/485557-cuba-us-sanctions-covid/

Sanctions the best cure? Trump signs order laying out visa sanctions for countries that 'delay or deny' return of their citizens
rt.com | 2020-04-11
US President Donald Trump has signed an order envisioning penalties for foreign nations that are reluctant to take back their citizens or residents as the coronavirus ravages the US, citing "public health risks." | "Countries that deny or unreasonably delay the acceptance of their citizens, subjects, nationals, or residents from the United States during the ongoing pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 create unacceptable public health risks for Americans," the memo released by the White House late on F…
rt.com/usa/485552-us-sanctions-coronavirus-foreign-citizens/

Coronavirus Outbreak: 70 cases at St. Vincent De Paul shelter for the unhoused
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-04-11
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/10/18832264.php

Tehran Subway during pandemic
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-11
TEHRAN, Apr. 11 (MNA)

Iran to showcase coronavirus-related production achievements
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-11
TEHRAN, Apr. 11 (MNA)

Businesses sustained damages due to COVID-19
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-11
TEHRAN, Apr. 11 (MNA)

Car production resumes at almost full pace as coronavirus restrictions ease in China
rt.com | 2020-04-11
Almost all car production lines in China have returned to business after prolonged closures aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus, according to a survey cited by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). | The poll of 204 auto manufacturing bases shows that 86 percent of employees returned to work, while the production resumption rate hit 99.5 percent, the association said on Friday. | However, China's auto market, which was hit hard by the pandemic as demand was crippled, is struggling to get sales back to normal after prolonged lockdowns and restrictions. Sales on the world's biggest…
rt.com/business/485558-china-auto-pruduction-resumes/

Catholic Bishops Urge President Trump to Lead Global COVID-19 Debt Relief
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2020-04-11
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops and Jubilee USA Network, an interfaith religious group, is urging President Trump to lead the G20 on coronavirus global debt relief plans.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/09/18832196.php

Cat scratch fever? Indian state orders ZOOS to report suspected coronavirus cases among animals after tiger in US tests positive
rt.com | 2020-04-11
The Indian state of Maharashtra has instructed zoos and rescue centers to send reports on animals showing signs of Covid-19, after concerns were raised when a tiger living in a US zoo was diagnosed with the deadly virus. | The Maharashtra Zoo Authority (MZA) on Friday called on facilities across the state to provide information on any captive animals displaying symptoms of the coronavirus, which include all the typical signs of the illness in humans, such as fever, coughing or difficulties breathing. | "So far we have no reports of any animals showing unusual symptoms or ill-health across any captive animal ce…
rt.com/news/485554-india-zoo-report-coronavirus/

Coronavirus test-kit production at 400K monthly: VP
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-11
TEHRAN, Apr. 11 (MNA)

Detroit nurse fired by Sinai-Grace Hospital for demanding action to improve desperate conditions
wsws.org | 2020-04-11
Kenisa Barkei was dismissed for insisting hospital management protect staff and provide the necessary care for the expanding number of coronavirus patients.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/11/detr-a11.html

Latest Covid-19 cultural casualty: Famed art & music festival Burning Man canceled
rt.com | 2020-04-11
Burning Man, the flamboyant annual party held in the Nevada desert, will not take place this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers have announced. Instead, a "virtual" event will be held. | The Burning Man Project said in a statement that the world-renowned festival has been canceled due to the "painful reality" of Covid-19. Organizers explained they were "heartbroken" but decided to call off the event in order to safeguard "public health and the well-being of our participants, staff and neighbors." | Burning Man 2020 was scheduled to take place in the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada from Augus…
rt.com/usa/485559-burning-man-canceled-coronavirus/

Coal Industry Seeks Cuts to Payments for Miners With Black Lung Amid Pandemic
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-11
Some of the largest coal companies in the United States are using the coronavirus crisis to pressure Congress to slash the tax that finances the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, a lifeline for more than 20,000 miners whose lung disease makes them more vulnerable to COVID-19. | The Washington Post reported this…
truthout.org/articles/coal-industry-seeks-cuts-to-payments-for-miners-with-black-lung-amid-pandemic/

Crucial test to identify those who have recovered from COVID-19 and have active immunity
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-11
A test that can determine if a patient had been infected and recovered from COVID-19 is being developed at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. The test will detect the presence of antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Antibodies are produced by a person's immune system, and are critical for control and clearance of the …
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