Trump Promoting Fossil Fuels will displace Millions toward US
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-05-06
You can't pursue both pro-carbon and anti-immigration policies successfully at the same time…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-promoting-fossil-fuels-will-displace-millions-toward-us/
Mapping Militarism 2020
David Swanson | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
A new collection of maps found here displays what militarism looks like in the world. Here's a brief guide to using and understanding them. Across the top are 10 drop-down menus on these topics: Wars, Weapons, U.S. Weapons, Money, Nukes, Chemical and Biological, U.S. Military, Air Strikes, Law, and Promotes Peace and Security. Some of the topics only include one…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/mapping-militarism-2020/
Trump Must Choose Between a Global Ceasefire and America's Long Lost Wars
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
As President Trump has complained, the U.S. does not win wars anymore. In fact, since 1945, the only 4 wars it has won were over the small neocolonial outposts of Grenada, Panama, Kuwait and Kosovo. Americans across the political spectrum refer to the wars the U.S. has launched since 2001 as "endless" or "unwinnable" wars.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/trump-must-choose-between-a-global-ceasefire-and-americas-long-lost-wars/
"Is There No Balm in Gilead?"
Gary Leupp | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Jeremiah 8: 22 (KJV) The biblical prophet Jeremiah was bemoaning the spiritual sickness of the people of the Kingdom of Judah in the sixth century BCE. He alluded to the fabled balm…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/is-there-no-balm-in-gilead/
Experts warn of new nuclear arms race after Trump signals U.S. withdrawal from START Treaty
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-05-06
While much of the corporate press has blamed Russia and China for the sudden failure of multiple longstanding nuclear treaties, experts put the blame on squarely on the Trump administration.
mronline.org/2020/05/06/experts-warn-of-new-nuclear-arms-race-after-trump-signals-u-s-withdrawal-from-start-treaty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=experts-warn-of-new-nuclear-arms-race-after-trump-signals-u-s-withdrawal-from-start-treaty
Coronavirus War Versus Real Wars
Robert Fisk | zcomm.org | 2020-05-06
Johnson and his acolytes will announce victory, but this will be untrue. Britons will still be dying with Covid-19, but their deaths will have become normal…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/coronavirus-war-versus-real-wars/
Former top officials in Bernie Sanders campaign form super PAC to back Joe Biden
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-05-06
With the Democratic Party uniting to promote Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders holds his nose to let his supporters build a super PAC.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/02/18832776.php
Ecuador's Moreno govt persecutes opponents as coronavirus catastrophe exposes its neoliberal war on public sector
Denis Rogatyuk | thegrayzone.com | 2020-05-06
Sentencing former President Rafael Correa and Jorge Glas to eight years in jail and barring them from public office for…
thegrayzone.com/2020/05/06/ecuadors-moreno-persecutes-coronavirus/
On the Brink of Starvation: COVID-19 and the Global Food Chain with Raj Patel
www.speakoutsocialists | indybay.org | 2020-05-06
This is an online townhall. For links and information on how to join the Zoom call visit here: | speakoutsocialists.org/townhall-05-09-20/…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/04/18832819.php
Iranian envoy, Taliban officials hold talks on developments in Afghanistan
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-06
TEHRAN, May 6 (MNA)
Iran, Afghanistan mulling over death of Afghan immigrants
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-06
TEHRAN, May 06 (MNA)
"Blood Money & Murder On The Job" Amazon 2020 On May Day
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-05-06
New York MTA TWU 100 steward John Ferretti and Amazon worker Chris Smalls are interviewed about May Day and why they were protesting at the Amazon JFK8 Staten Island warehouse.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/05/18832838.php
German authorities press charges in Làºbcke murder case
wsws.org | 2020-05-06
The neo-Nazi Stephan Ernst is accused of having shot leading Christian Democratic politician Walter Làºbcke in cold blood on the terrace of his home on the night of June 2, 2019.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/06/lubc-m06.html
UK: TUC and Labour attempt damage control after Tories push murderous "back to work" strategy
wsws.org | 2020-05-06
The attempt by Labour and the trade unions to feign concern for the working class is laughable, given that they have functioned in a de facto national unity government with the Tories.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/06/ukun-m06.html
The Washington Post's Neocons are Beating Cold War Drums…Again
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
The Washington Post has a reputation as liberal and even left-of-center, although its editorial pages are dominated by neoconservatives who support the idea of American exceptionalism and the extreme operational tempo of America's military. In the past week, we have been treated to a series of oped essays that are supportive of expanded American military power and a political, if not military, confrontation with China.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/the-washington-posts-neocons-are-beating-cold-war-drums-again/
A Kingston Reasoning with Legendary Guitarist Earl "Chinna" Smith
Stephen Cooper | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
Back in early March, before "social distancing" and travel restrictions became the norm, before in many ways literally and figuratively (except online, at home, and in our hearts), the music died
What the President Continues to Say (About the Plague)
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
In two previous pieces in CounterPunch I compiled Donald Trump's statements on the COVID-19 pandemic up to April 19th (early evening). Here is a continuation of that list. Rather than place Trump's statements in strict chronological order, I have sometimes put 2 or more of statements from different days together, to highlight Trump's contradictions and…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/what-the-president-continues-to-say-about-the-plague-2/
Capitalism's Voracious Appetite: Bodies are the Commodities
Kathleen Wallace | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
The allure of capitalism has never been a clean or ethical one–the very roots are predicated on a system of continued growth and extraction, only becoming less feudal and more "modern" with the advent of beliefs that technological advances could usher in continued input to help the system survive. This has been true is some ways, such as the advent of fracking, which was able to massively disrupt Hubbert's peak (the bell curve expected to show the gradual diminished reserves of oil). That peak was extended like a covid graph 10 days after an evangelical beach party. The rub with all things extractive and un…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/capitalisms-voracious-appetite-bodies-are-the-commodities/
Gen Z National Student Leadership Begins Fightback for College Relief
Greg Moses | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
College students last week gained tenacious footing and found ways to fight back against pandemics of disease and insecurity, but their struggle is still overlooked in the grand scheme of trillion-dollar rescues that focus on fruits, not roots of human flourishing. After a month-long delay caused by a foot-dragging and mean-spirited Department of Education (ED),…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/gen-z-national-student-leadership-begins-fightback-for-college-relief/
Measuring Inflation During the Time of Coronavirus
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
There has been some discussion of whether we should anticipate deflation or inflation as a result of the impact of the pandemic. I have been in the camp arguing the latter, based on the idea that precautionary measures will raise costs in major areas of the economy while reducing supply. (This is not an argument…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/measuring-inflation-during-the-time-of-coronavirus/
Chainsaw Medicine on the Ochoco
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
Hurray for Central Oregon Land Watch and Oregon Wild for suing the Ochoco National Forest over its proposed Black Mountain Vegetation Management Project near Big Prairie. As is typical of the Forest Service today, they use euphemisms to conceal what they always have been and continue to be–a handmaiden to the timber industry. The Forest…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/chainsaw-medicine-on-the-ochoco/
Our Slaughterhouses Aren't Just for Cattle, Hogs, and Poultry Anymore. Add People
Sam Pizzigati | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
Some businesses make us feel all warm and cuddly. Like bakeries. Who can resist smiling just thinking about the smell of newly baked bread? But other businesses
The Joker We Deserve: Unmasked Power and Our "Slicey Dicey" President
John G. Russell | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
l"I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen." –Donald Trump attempting to apply intense gaslight to disinfect asinine statements he made about how to kill the coronavirus Sarcastic: using remarks that clearly mean the opposite of what you say, in order to hurt someone's feelings or to humorously criticize something. –Cambridge Dictionary Donald Trump has done it again.
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/the-joker-we-deserve-unmasked-power-and-our-slicey-dicey-president/
Kachchh Camel Herders: Lockdown Last Straw?
Ritayan Mukherjee | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
"I am selling some vegetables, but there's not much profit in it. We all are sitting at home, idle, mostly. The local cement factory is running, but we aren't going to work," Karim Jat tells me on the phone from Mori, his village in Lakhpat taluka of Kachchh district. Karim Jat is a maldhari of…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/kachchh-camel-herders-lockdown-last-straw/
US Commission on the Pandemic of 2020: No Culpability, No Accountability for 70,000 Americans Killed in 60 Days
John Stanton | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/us-commission-on-the-pandemic-of-2020-no-culpability-no-accountability-for-70000-americans-killed-in-60-days/
Beware the Pentagon's Pandemic Profiteers
Mandy Smithberger | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
At this moment of unprecedented crisis, you might think that those not overcome by the economic and mortal consequences of the coronavirus would be asking, "What can we do to help?" A few companies have indeed pivoted to making masks and ventilators for an overwhelmed medical establishment. Unfortunately, when it comes to the top officials…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/beware-the-pentagons-pandemic-profiteers/
Super-exploited migrant workers bear brunt of Singapore's COVID-19 'second wave'
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-05-06
Healthcare Refugees & migrants Workers & unions Peter BoyleIssue 1264 Singapore COVID-19May 6, 2020Singapore was one of the count…
greenleft.org.au/content/super-exploited-migrant-workers-bear-brunt-singapores-covid-19-second-wave
Afghanistan says Daesh/ISIS network said to be shattered
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-06
Afghan special forces on Wednesday claimed to have busted a network of Daesh/ISIS operatives in the capital Kabul involved in high-profile attacks.According to the National Directorate of Security, the Afghan secret service, its special forces conducted two coordinated operations to bust the terror network.The Daesh/ISIS operatives were conducting terror activities in liaison with the Haqqani network, a Taliban offshoot, it added.The directorate said five militants were killed and eight others taken into custody during the operation. A large cache of arms was also seized."This joint network carried out rocket att…
yenisafak.com/en/world/afghanistan-says-daesh-isis-network-said-to-be-shattered-3518803
UN sends truckloads of aid to Syria's Idlib
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-06
The trucks loaded with the supplies entered Syria through the Cilvegozu border gate in Turkey's southern Hatay province, which borders Idlib.The aid will be distributed to people in Idlib city and nearby rural areas.Syria has been ravaged by a civil war since early 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on pro-democracy protesters.Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 10 million displaced, according to UN estimates.Idlib falls within a de-escalation zone. The area has been the subject of multiple ceasefire understandings, which have frequently been violated by the Assad regime and its al…
yenisafak.com/en/world/un-sends-truckloads-of-aid-to-syrias-idlib-3518810
Indian man fired for Islamophobic tweet in Canada
yenisafak.com | 2020-05-06
An Indian man has lost his role as school council chair and his job at a real estate company in Ontario, Canada, over an Islamophobic tweet he posted last week.Ravi Hooda protested Brampton city's decision to extend noise bylaw exceptions to mosques and tweeted: "What's next? Separate lanes for camel goat riders?"In the tweet from his now private account, he went on to disparage the Islamic ritual of animal sacrifice and the practice of Muslim women wearing burqa, a body-length covering, or headscarves.Hooda insinuated that Canadian officials were only tolerant towards these Muslim practices to "appease" the comm…
yenisafak.com/en/news/indian-man-fired-for-islamophobic-tweet-in-canada-3518798
Rich Peasants, Poor Peasants and "Mom-and-Pop Landlords"
David Rovics | counterpunch.org | 2020-05-06
In the course of the evolving patchwork of rent strikes happening right now across the US, there is suddenly a lot of talk in the press about how much the landlords are hurting. The landlords, of course, own the press, control the federal government, run all fifty states, and have a stranglehold on most of…
counterpunch.org/2020/05/06/rich-peasants-poor-peasants-and-mom-and-pop-landlords/
Lessons from the First Union Climate Strike in the U.S
Iris Altamirano, Greg Nammacher, and Priya Dalal-Whelan | zcomm.org | 2020-05-06
Workers like the members of SEIU know what the problem is and how to solve it. We need to stand with them, because together we can win huge things…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/lessons-from-the-first-union-climate-strike-in-the-u-s/
Venezuela thwarts invasion attempt by mercenaries
Peoples Dispatch | mronline.org | 2020-05-06
Venezuelan officials reported that a group of mercenaries attempted to invade the country on Sunday but were stopped by the country's army and police.
mronline.org/2020/05/06/venezuela-thwarts-invasion-attempt-by-mercenaries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=venezuela-thwarts-invasion-attempt-by-mercenaries
It's time to hold big banks to account for their dirty lending
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-05-06
By Maddie Bromfield: Earlier this month oil prices collapsed to minus $30 a barrel, as the world faced an unprecedented economic shock. Yet remarkably, major UK banks continue to pour money into fossil fuels. According to a new report, UK lenders have provided £158bn of financing for fossil fuel projects since the Paris Agreement on climate …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/its-time-to-hold-big-banks-to-account-for-their-dirty-lending/
COVID-19 and Climate: The Future of Energy
Climate One | indybay.org | 2020-05-06
Online via livestream (FREE)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/02/18832780.php
Disease-carrying mosquitoes could be common in Europe by 2030
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-05-06
Climate change could mean mosquitoes that can carry diseases like dengue, zika and yellow fever become established in southern Europe within 10 years.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197333/disease-carrying-mosquitoes-could-common-europe-2030
The Trump administration's war against society
wsws.org | 2020-05-06
Amidst the expanding coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration is implementing a socially criminal "open up the economy" policy that will result in hundreds of thousands of deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/06/pers-m06.html
No evidence Covid-19 is man-made, UK health minister says, as US insists it came out of Wuhan lab
rt.com | 2020-05-06
The UK's health minister has said there's nothing in the roots of the Covid-19 epidemic to support allegations of a man-made origin, as unsubstantiated theories continue to be touted on the other side of the Atlantic. | "We have looked into this and we don't have any evidence that this is a man-made coronavirus," Matt Hancock stated on Wednesday. The remark came as he was pressed into giving his take on the US government alleging that the novel coronavirus originated from a Chinese laboratory. | We haven't seen any evidence of a link, there's nothing I've seen that confirms the allegation. | Days ago, US Presi…
rt.com/news/487903-hancock-coronavirus-not-man-made/
EU says Poland must ensure free & fair presidential election amid political and virus crisis
rt.com | 2020-05-06
The EU's executive said on Wednesday that Poland must ensure "free and fair" elections, as the bloc's largest ex-communist country is locked in a political crisis over a presidential vote due this Sunday. | European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen discussed with her EU executive in Brussels "the importance of free and fair presidential elections in Poland in the context of the coronavirus crisis," according to a spokesman. | Amid political infighting within the ruling coalition led by the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party
Trump administration 'ignored virus warnings and pushed unproven drug'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-06
The Trump administration failed to prepare for the onslaught of coronavirus, then sought a quick fix by trying to rush an unproven drug to patients, a senior government scientist has alleged in a whistleblower complaint.Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, alleges he was reassigned to a lesser role because he resisted political pressure to allow widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug pushed by Donald Trump.He said the Trump administration wanted to "flood" hot spots in New York and New Jersey with the drug.Rick Bright (Health and Human Services/…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/05/06/trump-administration-ignored-virus-warnings-and-pushed-unproven-drug/
Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Respiratory therapists play critical role in treating COVID-19 patients
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-06
COVID-19 was first identified late last year with a cluster of pneumonia cases caused by a new coronavirus. The COVID-19 disease process heavily affects the respiratory system, and patients often need oxygen support. The respiratory therapist plays a critical role in managing oxygen levels, placing breathing tubes, and managing the mechanical ventilator, when necessary. On …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-respiratory-therapists-play-critical-role-in-treating-covid-19-patients/
A China-bashing coronavirus jester? Beijing tears into Pompeo's 'clown show'
rt.com | 2020-05-06
China has fired back at Mike Pompeo's allegations that Beijing is somehow behind the origin and spread of Covid-19, describing his "comedy routine" as deeply cynical and damaging to the United States. | State-operated China Daily took aim at the US secretary of state, slamming the top American diplomat for "bad-mouthing" China and the World Health Organization (WHO) instead of seeking global cooperation and solidarity to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic. | Pompeo continues to insist that the illness came from a laboratory in Wuhan, even though he has yet to present evidence for this incendiary claim, and has ign…
rt.com/news/487878-pompeo-china-clown-show-coronavirus/
Antioch official fired for suggesting COVID-19 should kill the old and weak
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-05-06
Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/03/18832815.php
No evidence Covid-19 has mutated into different types, researchers conclude
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-05-06
The virus that causes Covid-19 has not mutated into different types, according to new analysis. | Recent research had suggested more than one type of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, is now circulating, with one strain being more aggressive and causing more serious illness than the other. | However using analysis of SARS-CoV-2 virus samples, scientists from the Medical Research Council-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research (CVR) have found only one type of the virus. | Viruses, including the one causing Covid-19, naturally accumulate mutations
Iran kicks off exporting 'corona' diagnostic kits to Germany, Turkey: envoy
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-06
TEHRAN, May 06 (MNA)
Global COVID-19 death toll passes 258,000
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-06
TEHRAN, May 6 (MNA)
China donates medical aid to W. Azarbaijan in battling COVID-19
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-05-06
TEHRAN, May 06 (MNA)
Coronavirus and human rights: New UN report calls for disability-inclusive recovery
news.un.org | 2020-05-06
The COVID-19 pandemic is intensifying inequalities experienced by the world's one billion people with disabilities, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in launching a report issued on Wednesday that calls for a disability-inclusive recovery and response to the crisis.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1063242
Are pets at risk of getting, spreading COVID-19?
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-05-06
Recent reports of cats and dogs becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to update its guidelines for pets. According to the CDC, two pet cats in New York City became the first domestic animals in the U.S. to test positive for the …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/are-pets-at-risk-of-getting-spreading-covid-19/
Coronavirus, the NHS and the charity shakedown
wsws.org | 2020-05-06
Social care provision in the UK increasingly resembles that of the Victorian period when the lives and wellbeing of millions depended on philanthropy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/05/06/phil-m06.html