2020-04-30: Social Media Postees

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Trump's Immigration Suspension Doesn't Prevent Unemployment or COVID-19 Spread
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-30
Late on the evening of April 20, President Trump tweeted that he was temporarily suspending immigration to the United States. For justification he cited what he called "the attack from the Invisible Enemy"

Ryan Grim: Dems' Coronavirus Response Repeats Past Blunders
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-30
Sanders is out of the race, but the fight over the future of the Democratic part continues, says Ryan Grim, author of We've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement.
therealnews.com/stories/ryan-grim-dems-coronavirus-response-repeats-past-blunders

The jobless crisis and im/migrants
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-04-30
Farmworker wearing bandana during pandemic. It's not just COVID-19 that's racing like wildfire across the U.S. It's unemployment. The number of newly jobless workers has climbed to an astounding 26 million. That is due to coronavirus-related layoffs or furloughs caused by business closures or contractions. Added to the number of . . . | Continue reading The jobless crisis and im/migrants at Workers.org…
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How to turn Colombia's prisons into coronavirus death camps and stay positive
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-30
It took months of inaction, but Colombia's government finally turned Villavicencio's prison into the perfect coronavirus petri dish from where its prison chief infected at least three more prisons. The…
colombiareports.com/how-to-turn-colombias-prisons-into-coronavirus-death-camps-and-stay-positive/

Bolsonaro & COVID-19 push Brazil towards military dictatorship
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with Brazilian journalist and researcher, Aline Piva, after Brazil's Justice Minister, Sergio Moro, caught…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/30/bolsonaro-covid-19-push-brazil-towards-military-dictatorship/

Video: How the US Makes Countries Pay for Its Wars: Economics of American Imperialism with Michael Hudson
Prof Michael Hudson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and even their own military occupation. | Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the economics of Washington's empire, …
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45 Years Ago, End of Vietnam War: Neoliberalism and "The Vietnam Model". Who Won the Vietnam War?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
April 1975 marks the official end of the Vietnam War. Yet today, Vietnam is an impoverished countries. The Hanoi government is a US proxy regime. Vietnam has become a new cheap labor frontier of the global economy. Neoliberalism prevails.
globalresearch.ca/who-won-the-vietnam-war-2/172

Joe Biden Needs an Intervention
Norman Solomon | zcomm.org | 2020-04-30
An Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/joe-biden-needs-an-intervention/

Joe Biden Needs an Intervention: An Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-04-30
"It takes two wings to fly."
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/30/18832705.php

With apparently fabricated nuclear documents, Netanyahu pushed the US towards war with Iran
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-30
An investigation of supposed Iranian nuclear documents presented in a dramatically staged Netanyahu press conference indicates they were an Israeli…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/29/fabricated-nuclear-documents-netanyahu-war-iran/

Et tu? Progressive Boomers Are Now Preaching Pro-Biden Lesser-Evilism
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-30
At a time when an independent progressive movement is needed more than ever, the sheepdogs of a bygone era are trying to herd a new generation of activists into the Democratic Party.
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Onto the next 'child-rights crisis'? Greta Thunberg launches fundraiser to battle Covid-19 pandemic
rt.com | 2020-04-30
Apparently not content to rescue mankind from only one doomsday scenario, teenage eco-warrior Greta Thunberg has sprung into action again, launching a fundraising campaign to help the children of the world survive Covid-19. | The project will see the young activist partner with Denmark's Human Act Foundation to pledge $100,000 each to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), which brings humanitarian aid to children around the globe. | Though the Covid-19 outbreak has largely spared the young, Thunberg nonetheless branded the pandemic a "child-rights crisis" in a statement announcin…
rt.com/news/487304-greta-next-apocalypse-coronavirus/

Seeking justice during COVID-19: Black man killed while jogging in Georgia
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-30
A 25-year-old Black man was shot and killed while jogging after being pursued by two white men in Brunswick, Georgia. Over two months have passed since the incident, and still no one has been charged for his murder. Friends, family, and activists are looking for answers in Ahmaud Arbery's death, but they are afraid the …
peoplesworld.org/article/seeking-justice-during-covid-19-black-man-killed-while-jogging-in-georgia/

On Mumia's birthday, global event honors political prisoners
| workers.org | 2020-04-30
By Mirinda Crissman and Judy Greenspan From behind prison walls nearly 39 years, Mumia Abu Jamal continues to educate, energize and unite prison abolitionists, former and current political prisoners, and the global activist community. On April 24, his 66th birthday, Abu-Jamal's story and legacy brought together a virtual gathering "U.S. . . . | Continue reading On Mumia's birthday, global event honors political prisoners at Workers.org…
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How to maintain peace in Persian Gulf region
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-30
TEHRAN, May. 01 (MNA)

ELN ends coronavirus ceasefire weeks ahead of expected peak in infections
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-30
Despite calls for an extension, Colombia's ELN rebels end their unilateral ceasefire on Thursday, claiming that military offensives demonstrated President Ivan Duque is not interested in peace or in combating…
colombiareports.com/eln-ends-coronavirus-ceasefire-weeks-ahead-of-expected-peak-in-infections/

A Letter From Viet Nam on the Occasion of the 45th Anniversary of the End of the War
Mark Ashwill | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-30
Dear Fellow Citizens, I am reaching out to you as current official friends and former enemies of Vietnam because I want you to know the truth about what could have been, an alternative and viable path of history that both countries could have trod together for mutual benefit and a more peaceful world. One milestone…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/a-letter-from-viet-nam-on-the-occasion-of-the-45th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-war/

Democrats fume as armed protesters descend on Michigan Capitol to protest lockdown
rt.com | 2020-04-30
Crowds of protesters, some carrying weapons, descended on the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan, as legislators considered extending Covid-19 lockdown measures. Democrats blamed President Donald Trump. | Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued a stay-at-home order late last month, as the coronavirus epidemic took hold in her state. When the governor

Colombia: Hunger Protests Continue Amid Pandemic
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-30
Colombian protests continued due to the food crisis and lack of governmental help during COVID-19 outbreak across the South American country. | RELATED: | Colombia: Gunmen Kill Social Leader and Family Members in Cauca | In Ibague, several families demonstrated demanding humanitarian aid from Tolima's Mayor Office, despite social isolation measures to prevent the virus from spreading. Furthermore, the Las Ferias neighborhood residents blocked a street entrance and burned tires…
telesurenglish.net/news/colombia-hunger-protests-continue-amid-pandemic-20200430-0013.html

Family members protest amid six more deaths at Australian aged care home
wsws.org | 2020-04-30
The outbreak underscores the danger of a new wave of COVID-19 infections as governments and business chiefs step up their drive for a premature return to work.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/30/aged-a30.html

COVID-19 Has Exposed the US Under Trump as a "Failed State"
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-04-30
Interview on what's behind Trump's encouragement of the "anti-lockdown" protests, discusses the right-wing determination to destroy the U.S. Postal Service, and lays out his views on the electoral "lesser of two evils" principle…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/covid-19-has-exposed-the-us-under-trump-as-a-failed-state/

MoveOn Protest: Twitter Rally to Demand #RealReliefNow during COVID-19
MoveOn | indybay.org | 2020-04-30
Protest online via Twitter…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/30/18832707.php

Carnivals of the damned: the U.S. far-right fights the lockdown
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-30
The wave of far-right anti-lockdown protests show how capitalist politics can create monsters. Worse might be on the way.
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Millions of Pakistani laborers struggle amid COVID-19 lockdown
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-30
Hundreds of charged laborers, including women, gathered outside a garment factory in the eastern district of Pakistan's commercial capital Karachi to protest against their forced layoff only a week before the International Labor Day.They, in fact, came to receive their salaries but they were verbally informed that the factory no longer required their services due to the financial losses caused by a lingering lockdown imposed by the government to curb the raging coronavirus outbreak in the country.A few kilometers away, another demonstration was held outside a famous textile company, which also laid off hundreds o…
yenisafak.com/en/world/millions-of-pakistani-laborers-struggle-amid-covid-19-lockdown-3518316

Taliban set free 40 captives amid escalating violence
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-30
The Taliban in Afghanistan set free at least 40 captive security forces personnel amid escalating violence in the war-ravaged country, the group said on Thursday.Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban's Qatar office spokesman, announced on Twitter the captives were released in the afternoon in northern Kunduz province bordering Tajikistan."The Islamic Emirate [Taliban] is trying to speed up prisoners' release process in order to save lives of the prisoners from the risk of the coronavirus desease," Shaheen tweeted.This comes as the Afghan government and the Taliban exchange allegations over the surge in violence.Javed Faisa…
yenisafak.com/en/world/taliban-set-free-40-captives-amid-escalating-violence-3518324

Greta Thunberg Donates $100,000 Prize to UNICEF to Protect Children From COVID-19 Outbreak
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-30
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize awarded by the Danish non-governmental organisation Human Act to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to help the organisation protect children from COVID-19, according to a UNICEF statement on Thursday.
sputniknews.com/society/202004301079145524-greta-thunberg-donates-100000-prize-to-unicef/

New COVID-19 Antiviral Drug Remdesivir Offers 'No Significant' Benefit, More Research Needed-Study
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-30
The first randomised trial for a promising new antiviral drug, lauded by many as a positive treatment for SARS-CoV-2 patients, suggested that there were no significant clinical benefits, with researchers urging further trials, a study released on late Wednesday revealed.
sputniknews.com/science/202004301079142995-new-covid-19-antiviral-drug-remdesivir-offers-no-significant-benefit-more-research-needed-study/

US to Mobilize Military Reservists in 'Anti-Drug' Operation Against Venezuela
Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-30
The Trump administration is also targeting oil-for-food deals involving the Venezuelan government and Mexican companies.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14857

COVID-19 y hechos básicos de la economía marxista
Deirdre Griswold | workers.org | 2020-04-30
El mercado de valores se desplomó en marzo, pero se recuperó en parte después de que el Banco de la Reserva Federal bajó la tasa de interés para los préstamos. Luego se estrelló de nuevo. Las empresas se están yendo a la quiebra. El precio del petróleo ha caído a . . . | Continue reading COVID-19 y hechos básicos de la economía marxista at Workers.org…
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The Czech Republic's Russian Assassin Scandal Reeks of the Skripal Conspiracy
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
A Czech magazine's scandalous claim that two of the capital's politicians are being guarded by police in order to protect them from a reportedly imminent assassination attempt by a Russian spy reeks of the Skripal conspiracy when Moscow were accused …
globalresearch.ca/czech-republic-russian-assassin-scandal-reeks-skripal-conspiracy/5711376

Cold War of Trump/Navarro vs China
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
It is getting ugly, extremely ugly. | It is increasingly looking like a war

Save America, Throw the Landlords Under the Bus
Ted Rall | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-30
We can save the economy. We have to throw the landlords under the bus to do it. At this writing, 26.5 million Americans have lost their jobs to the national lockdown necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Added to those who were unemployed before the coronavirus crisis, we will soon face jobless numbers equivalent to or greater than to…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/save-america-throw-the-landlords-under-the-bus/

Bolivia's socialist presidential candidate Luis Arce speaks about elections, COVID-19 and fascist oppression
Oliver Vargas | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-04-30
The presidential candidate of the Movement for Socialism in Bolivia, Luis Arce Catacora, talks about COVID-19 being used as a pretext to postpone elections, the economic policies of the coup government, and the approach his party plans to take…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/04/30/bolivias-socialist-presidential-candidate-luis-arce-speaks-about-elections-covid-19-and-fascist-oppression/

Malaysian socialist: COVID-19 means 'we cannot go back to business as normal'
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-30
Jeyakumar DeverajIssue 1263 Malaysia Kuala LumpurApril 30, 2020Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj, also known as the "Red Doctor", is a medical doctor by profession and is the chairperson of Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM). | He served in the Parliament of Malaysia as Member of Parliament for the Sungai Siput constituency in Perak for two term…
greenleft.org.au/content/malaysian-socialist-covid-19-means-we-cannot-go-back-business-normal

How Biden Clipped Sanders on Race
Seth Adler | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-30
After the South Carolina loss to Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders' opponents effectively used the African American vote against him. The political moves that clipped his chances of winning, revolved around the following opportunistic argument: because Sanders ran a campaign with a racial justice and anti-racist approach that lost to huge African American majorities, how could…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/how-biden-clipped-sanders-on-race/

New York state cancels Democratic presidential primary
wsws.org | 2020-04-30
The action is an effort to block the election of a sizeable delegation pledged to Bernie Sanders.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/30/nyca-a30.html

Economist Thomas Piketty: Coronavirus Pandemic Has Exposed the "Violence of Social Inequality"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-30
As nearly 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment in just six weeks and millions worldwide face hunger and poverty, we look at the global economic catastrophe triggered by the pandemic and its impact on the most vulnerable. As the World Food Programme warns of a massive spike in global hunger and more than 100 million people in cities worldwide could fall into poverty, can this crisis be a catalyst for change? We ask French economist Thomas Piketty. His 2014 internationally best-selling book, "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," looked at economic inequality and the necessity of wealth taxes. His new b…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/30/thomas_piketty

WHO Adviser on Meat Plants: If We're at War, the Weapons We Need Are Tests and PPE, Not Pork
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-30
As President Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to bar local governments from closing meatpacking plants around the United States, we get response from a longtime adviser to the World Health Organization. "When Congress passed that act, it certainly did not have in mind that the president has the power or the right to put workers' lives and health at risk," says Lawrence Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown University and director of the World Health Organization Center on National and Global Health Law. Gostin also discusses why he joined 40 leading center directors in a declaration this we…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/30/lawrence_gostin_covid_19

America's super-rich see their wealth rise by $282 Billion in three weeks of pandemic
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-04-30
America's billionaires have accrued more wealth in the past three weeks alone than they made in total prior to 1980.
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US-China Relations on the Rocks?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
Both right wings of the US war party are hostile toward sovereign independent states that are free from its imperial control. | It's notably true for nations with enormous hydrocarbon resources like Iran and Venezuela

45 Years Ago Today. End of the Vietnam War
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
US history since WW II is pockmarked with endless wars of aggression against invented enemies

Millions More US Jobless than Reported. Real U.S. Unemployment Rate at 38%
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
Based on how it was calculated pre-1990s, Shadowstats economist John Williams has the real US unemployment rate at around 38%, heading higher. | According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), "millions" of jobless US workers aren't getting benefits because applications they …
globalresearch.ca/millions-more-us-jobless-than-reported-real-u-s-unemployment-rate-at-38/5711311

Diabolical Chinagate, the New Russiagate
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
While Russiagate still simmers, Chinagate is coming to a boil

Collapse of Air Travel: Boeing Burns Through a Record $4.7 Billion in Cash as Revenue Crashes 26%, Will Fire 10% of Workers
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
The hits just keep on coming for Boeing which last quarter was slammed with the continued grounding of the 737 MAX and now had to contend with the collapse in airline travel due to the coronavirus. As a result, moments …
globalresearch.ca/boeing-burns-through-record-cash-revenue-crashes-will-fire-workers/5711388

'No need to generate undue alarm': Doctors call for calm amid media hype over Covid-19-linked inflammatory syndrome in children
rt.com | 2020-04-30
The Western media has been flooded with stories about a "mysterious disease" affecting children in the UK and the US that is supposedly linked to Covid-19. RT has asked a number of pediatricians if there is cause for concern. | On Monday, the UK's Paediatric Intensive Care Society (PICS) sent a memo to British doctors warning them about a rise in cases of a "multi-system inflammatory state requiring intensive care" that had been exhibited in "children of all ages" in several regions across the UK, including London. It further noted that the symptoms of the condition were "consistent with severe Covid-19," and…
rt.com/news/487344-covid-19-kawasaki-syndrome-children/

Is Kim Dead? Your Guess Is as Good as Western Media's
Julianne Tveten | fair.org | 2020-04-30
"Monitoring intelligence" is journalese for "aware of rumors" (CNN, 4/20/20). | If CNN is to be believed, Kim Jong-un is in critical condition–or he isn't. | Recently, the network published an article ( 4/20/20) whose headline stated that the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known in the West as North Korea, was in "grave danger" following cardiovascular surgery and an absence at an April 15 even…
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