2020-04-28: Social Media Postees

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Parents fear for their children's safety as coronavirus hits juvenile jails
Margie Mason, Robin McDowell | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-28
Nicole Hingle wasn't surprised when the call came. Frustrations had been building inside juvenile detention centers nationwide as the number of coronavirus cases continued to climb. Now, her 17-year-old son Jace was on the phone telling her around 40 kids had rioted at his facility in Louisiana–the same state where more than a dozen youths …
peoplesworld.org/article/parents-fear-for-their-childrens-safety-as-coronavirus-hits-juvenile-jails/

COVID-19 and Central America: a Learning Moment?
James Phillips | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-28
The countries of Central America are indeed central to the foreign and domestic policies of the United States in many ways, most obvious of which is immigration. But the current COVID19 pandemic has exposed significant differences in the responses of Central American countries and examples of gross disaster opportunism and the double standard applied to…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/28/covid19-and-central-america-a-learning-moment/

US Deportations Are Exporting COVID-19 to Nations Unprepared for a Pandemic
Brett Heinz | cepr.net | 2020-04-28
On April 22nd, President Trump signed an Executive Order putting a 60-day halt on the issuance of new green cards to immigrants admissible for permanent residency in the United States. This measure, coming on the back of other government measures restricting legal immigration, ostensibly seeks to protect the US from imported cases of COVID-19. But …
cepr.net/us-deportations-are-exporting-covid-19-to-nations-unprepared-for-a-pandemic/

Exporting COVID-19: ICE Air Conducted Deportation Flights to 11 LAC Countries, Flight Data Shows
Jake Johnston | cepr.net | 2020-04-28
There were 232 likely ICE Air deportation flights to Latin America and Caribbean countries between February 3, 2020 and April 24, 2020, CEPR analysis shows. In 2019, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 267,258 individuals

The Federalist Fight Against Fascism
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-28
The Federalist Fight Against Fascism…
thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-trump-fascism-immigration/

Iran FM expresses deep concern over conditions of migrants in US detention center
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-28
TEHRAN, Apr. 28 (MNA)

Pandemic Delays: Postponing the Assange Extradition Hearing
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
"Mr Assange will be facing a David and Goliath battle with his hands tied behind his back."

Pandemic Delays: Postponing the Assange Extradition Hearing
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-28
Mr Assange will be facing a David and Goliath battle with his hands tied behind his back.

Assange extradition hearing delayed following defence appeal
wsws.org | 2020-04-28
Assange's legal team insisted that a hearing could not proceed under the current circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/28/assa-a28.html

During Coronvrius: Cuba to the rescue, but don't tell the American people
Medea Benjamin | mronline.org | 2020-04-28
Anti-Cuba zealots in the Trump administration have been enticing Cuban doctors working overseas to defect, paying journalists to write negative stories, slapping sanctions on Cubans in charge of the program, and strong-arming countries to expel Cuban doctors.
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Exclusive: OPCW insiders slam 'compromised' new Syria chemical weapons probe
The Grayzone | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-28
Current and former staff members of the OPCW have denounced the organization's IIT report alleging Syrian government sarin use at…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/28/opcw-insiders-ltamenah-chemical-weapons-report/

Exclusive: OPCW insiders slam "compromised" new Syria chemical weapons probe
The Grayzone | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-28
Current and former staff members of the OPCW have denounced the organization's IIT report alleging Syrian government sarin use at…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/28/opcw-insiders-ltamenah-chemical-weapons-report/

Ranked-Choice Voting: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Howie Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-28
Climate activist Bill McKibben took to the New Yorker recently to advise me and the Green Party to stand down our presidential campaign and instead work for ranked-choice voting (RCV) so we don't "spoil" the election for Joe Biden ("Instead of Challenging Joe Biden, Maybe the Green Party Could Help Change Our Democracy," April 15).
counterpunch.org/2020/04/28/ranked-choice-voting-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/

Video: Venezuela and the Struggle Against Empire: Ajamu Baraka
Ajamu Baraka | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Black Alliance for Peace National Organizer Ajamu Baraka discussed the role of U.S. activists in stopping the U.S. war machine during "An Inside View of Resistance to US Imperialism in Venezuela and How to Build International Solidarity," a webinar co-hosted …
globalresearch.ca/video-contradictory-role-u-s-left-struggle-against-empire/5711074

Ranked-Choice Voting: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Howie Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-28
Howie Hawkins is a retired Teamster in Syracuse, New York, and leading in the primaries for the Green Party nomination for president. Climate activist Bill McKibben took to the New Yorker recently to advise me and the Green Party to stand down our presidential campaign and instead work for ranked-choice voting (RCV) so we…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/28/ranked-choice-voting-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/

World economy faces a $5 trillion hit, like losing UK AND France
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-04-28
The coronavirus pandemic is set to rob the global economy of more than $5 trillion of growth over the next two years, greater than the annual output of Japan or both the UK and France combined That's the warning from Wall Street banks as the world plunges into its deepest peacetime recession since the 1930s, …
truepublica.org.uk/newsbits/world-economy-faces-a-5-trillion-hit-like-losing-uk-and-france/

Colombia: Bus Crowds Mark Gradual Opening Since Quarantine
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-28
The cities of Cali, Barranquilla and Bucaramanga in Colombia reported rush hour crowds at bus stops following the gradual reopening of the country's lockdown. | RELATED: | Hunger Protests Grow in Colombia Amid Coronavirus Lockdown | Although in the capital, Bogotá, and in Medellín, Monday went by normally, those other cities were saturated with public transport, with an increase in users of between 9 and 32 percent. | During the course of the day, congestion decreased, Secretary of…
telesurenglish.net/news/colombia-bus-crowds-mark-gradual-opening-of-quarantine-20200428-0007.html

Gunshots ring out and cars are set ablaze in Haiti as police officers protest against government corruption (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-04-28
Rioting cops stormed the Finance Ministry in the capital over complaints about their pay and working conditions, as Covid-19 rips through the impoverished Caribbean nation. | Videos from the scene show cars set ablaze and government buildings being stormed, as Haitian police took to the streets of Port au Prince on Monday. | Officers went out to protest their pay, working conditions, and government corruption against the bleak backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has put further strain on the country's dire economic situation. | Rioting cops, calling themselves 'Fantomes 509' (Ghosts 509) exchanged gunf…
rt.com/news/487141-haiti-police-officers-unrest/

Protests in Somalia after police killing during pandemic lockdown
wsws.org | 2020-04-28
The protests reflect a broader anger towards the brutal methods utilized by the security forces during the curfew…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/28/soma-a28.html

April 25, 2020: Nationwide Cancel Rents Protests
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-04-28
We face a second rent day, May 1, when at least one third of renters nationwide will not be able to pay the rent due to the pandemic lockdown. Yet no governor, Democrat or Republican, has demanded that the rent be cancelled since the renters who live from paycheck to paycheck face immediate eviction when the lockdown ends as they cannot pay any back rent.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/27/18832659.php

WATCH: Lebanese citizens vent their ire by TORCHING bank, army vehicle, as at least 1 protester shot dead
rt.com | 2020-04-28
A protester has been shot and killed in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, as the country's financial and economic crisis worsens under the additional pressure of the coronavirus pandemic. | The Lebanese pound has collapsed amid soaring inflation and unemployment worsened by the shutdown of the economy, exacerbating the pre-existing financial crisis which has plagued the country since October. | #ÿßŸÑÿ≠ŸÖÿ±ÿßÿ° – #ÿ®Ÿä&yuml…
rt.com/news/487106-bank-torched-lebanon-riots/

Over 170 doctors protest against inhumane US sanctions amid COVID-19
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-28
TEHRAN, Apr. 28 (MNA)

Video: Turkish Army Clashing with Turkish Proxies in Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Early on April 27, the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on alleged Iranian targets in the countryside of Damascus. As always, pro-Israeli sources claimed that the missile attack hit and destroyed weapon depots and HQs of …
globalresearch.ca/video-turkish-army-clashing-turkish-proxies-idlib/5711056

Next in Coronavirus Tyranny: Forced Vaccinations and 'Digital Certificates'
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
In my first week in the House of Representatives in 1976, I cast one of the two votes against legislation appropriating funds for a swine flu vaccination program. A swine flu outbreak was then dominating headlines, so most in DC …
globalresearch.ca/next-coronavirus-tyranny-forced-vaccinations-digital-certificates/5711125

Will the Coronavirus Change the World?
Ramzy Baroud | zcomm.org | 2020-04-28
It is us, the people, and our true authentic voices – the 'organic intellectuals', not the celebrity philosophers – who have the right and the moral legitimacy to rise up to reclaim our democracy…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/will-the-coronavirus-change-the-world/

"A Plague On Both Your Houses"
Gary Leupp | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-28
Trump's discussion of injecting UV light and disinfectant into the body to treat COVID-19 during his daily briefing was, of course, a new low. The man, whom his secretary of state Rex Tillerson once famously described as "a moron," is obviously a toxic mix of stupidity and arrogance. So this morning MSNBC, the unofficial DNC…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/28/a-plague-on-both-your-houses/

Lebanon: one person killed in protests over price hikes
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-28
A Lebanese protestor on Tuesday succumbed to his wounds he sustained in clashes between army forces and demonstrators in Tripoli city, said a health NGO.The Islamic Medical Association identified the protestor as Fawaz al-Samman. It also said 22 protestors and five soldiers were injured in the clashes that took place late Monday at Al-Nour Square during which live bullets, rubber bullets and molotov cocktails were used.Despite the spread of the novel coronavirus, Lebanese protesters took to the streets late Monday in a number of cities to protest deteriorated living conditions and spiraling food prices amid the c…
yenisafak.com/en/world/lebanon-one-person-killed-in-protests-over-price-hikes-3518132

In Her Own Words: Fiona Apple on New Album "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" & Acknowledging Indigenous Lands
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-28
In a broadcast exclusive, world-renowned singer-songwriter Fiona Apple joins Democracy Now! for the hour to discuss her critically acclaimed new album, "Fetch the Bolt Cutters," which was released early amid the pandemic. "I've heard that it's actually making people feel free and happy," Apple says, "and it might be helping people feel alive or feel their anger or feel creative. And that's the best thing that I could hope for." Her record includes an acknowledgment that the album was "Made on unceded Tongva, Mescalero Apache, and Suma territories." We also speak with Native American activist Eryn Wise, an organiz…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/28/fiona_apple_fetch_the_bolt_cutters

The People's Choice Between Two Unacceptable Lessers for US President in November
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
What passes for US-style "democracy" would make some despots blush. | It's more fanciful than real, an illusion of what doesn't exist. | The nation was created to be run by its rich, well-born, and able, John Adams explained. | John Jay, the …
globalresearch.ca/people-choice-between-two-unacceptable-lessers-us-president-november/5711097

Are the US and China on a Collision Course for Greater Confrontation?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
US policymakers from both right wings of the one-party state want China's rise on the world stage as an economic, industrial, and technological power undermined. | A undeclared Cold War between both countries rages. There's always risk of things turning hot …
globalresearch.ca/us-china-collision-course-greater-confrontation/5711102

Reports of North Korean Leader's Death Greatly Exaggerated
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Once again, the good old reliable US major media proved unreliable again

Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-28
Israel will become much bigger | Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that a good crisis should never be allowed to go to waste. He meant, of course, that a crisis can be exploited to provide cover for other shenanigans involving politicians. It was an observation that was particularly true when one was working for a sexual predator like Bill, who once attacked a "terrorist" pharmaceutical factory in Sudan to divert attention aw…

Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again

Netanyahu Is Back Yet Again. Israel Will Become Much Bigger
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Rahm Emanuel, up until recently the mayor of Chicago and before that a top advisor to the president in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses and still earlier a volunteer in the Israeli Army, famously once commented that …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-back-israel-will-become-much-bigger/5711133

How Are You Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel
David Swanson | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-28
Israel is not a poor country. It is certainly not the poorest in the world. So why is it the top recipient of US military "aid?"
mintpressnews.com/stop-giving-united-states-money-israel-miltiary-aid/267054/

Is Trump Using the U.S. Military for Regime Change in Venezuela?
Barbara Boland | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
U.S. policy towards Venezuela has been a head-spinning series of contradictions lately, with no end in sight. From placing a bounty on the heads of President Nicolas Maduro and a dozen current and former Venezuelan officials, to upping sanctions and …
globalresearch.ca/trump-using-u-s-military-regime-change-venezuela/5711130

Government Must Pay $12 Billion to Obamacare Insurers, Supreme Court Rules
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-28
Insurance companies are entitled to recoup $12 billion from the federal government in unpaid Obamacare claims, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in an 8-1 vote. | The companies were shielded under the "risk corridor" provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which promised compensation for companies that incurred losses in the marketplaces created by the law. | The original remuneration period lasted three years, but Congressional Republicans capped payments between 2015 and 2017, which the insure…
truthout.org/articles/government-must-pay-12-billion-to-obamacare-insurers-supreme-court-rules/

The U.S. Wants to "Purchase" Greenland from Denmark
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
The US' plan to leverage economic aid to Greenland for strategic ends is exactly the same thing that it accuses China of doing in Africa, suggesting that its infowar against Beijing's Belt & Road Initiative is driven more by jealousy …
globalresearch.ca/us-doing-same-thing-greenland-accuses-china-doing-africa/5711136

The Corporate Food System is Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse
Walden Bello | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-28
The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of course, is aware that hunger is closely tracking the virus as its wreaks havoc in both the global North and global South. Indeed, one can say that, unlike in East Asia, Europe, and the U.S., in South Asia,…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/28/the-corporate-food-system-is-making-the-coronavirus-crisis-worse/

Bernie Sanders and the Future of the Movement
James L Cowan | indybay.org | 2020-04-28
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/25/18832641.php

Can Boris Johnson's Government Survive the COVID-19 Crisis Their Mistakes Exacerbated?
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-28
In the summer of 2011, riots erupted all over London and television screens and newspapers were filled with pictures of blazing buildings and looted shops. People swiftly noted that among those not present in the capital was the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who was with his family in a camper van in the Canadian…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/28/can-boris-johnsons-government-survive-the-covid-19-crisis-their-mistakes-exacerbated/

Corruption Scandals Could See Bolsonaro Removed from Power Quicker than One Could Expect
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
The Brazilian government was shaken by a new controversy on Friday after the General Director of the Federal Police, Maurício Valeixo, was sacked by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Following threats made on Thursday, the Minister of Justice and Public …
globalresearch.ca/corruption-scandals-could-see-bolsonaro-removed-quicker/5711053

Secret 'COVID-19 Manhattan Project' Led by Billionaires Seeking to Influence Trump Admin
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Last month Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey called for the bold and urgent launch of what he called "a Manhattan Project-type approach" to fight the coronavirus pandemic given the enormity of the health and economic impact, increasingly even harming US defense …
globalresearch.ca/secret-covid-19-manhattan-project-led-billionaires-seeking-influence-trump-admin/5711114

Both Sides-ing Bleach Injection – Media in the era of an incompetent president
Alan MacLeod | fair.org | 2020-04-28
Vox ( 4/23/20) calls the idea that you can treat the coronavirus by injecting bleach "highly unlikely." | You probably saw Donald Trump's ridiculous, false and deadly claim last week: that ingesting chemical cleaners could cure humans of the coronavirus. At a White House press briefing on Thursday ( 4/23/20),…
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Netanyahu Air Force Bombings Targeted Homes, Killed Three Civilians
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-28
Americans awaiting their COVID-19 stimulus and unemployment checks will be thrilled to know their taxes continue to be spent via Netanyahu bombing and murdering Syrians in their homes. Israel remains the US' most voracious welfare state queen, subsidized at more …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-air-force-bombings-targeted-homes-killed-three-civilians/5711065

Driver who rammed police motorcyclists in Paris pledged allegiance to ISIS, prosecutor says
rt.com | 2020-04-28
A letter pledging allegiance to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) was discovered in the car of the man who rammed his vehicle into two police motorcyclists in the suburbs of Paris on Monday, seriously injuring both officers. | The note was discovered along with a knife, France's anti-terrorism prosecutor (PNAT) said in a statement. Due to the finding, an investigation of "attempted murder of government officials in connection with the membership of a terrorist organization" has been launched, the office added. | In the letter, the driver pledged allegiance to IS and promised to sacrifice his life for the goal…
rt.com/news/487158-paris-ramming-driver-isis/

Ukraine denies Armenian genocide, refers instead to 'tragic events of April'
rt.com | 2020-04-28
Deputy foreign minister of Ukraine Vasyl Bodnar has urged government agencies to refrain from using the term 'genocide' when referring to the murder of Armenians a century ago, as it would go against Kiev's political interests. | An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1922. Bodnar outlined the reasons for refusing to recognise the events as genocide in a letter to government officials, which was subsequently leaked to Facebook by a member of the Verkovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament. | According to Bodnar, these events do not fit the UN definition of genocide, whic…
rt.com/news/487169-ukraine-armenian-genocide-turkey/

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