Ottoman's Forever Empire and its Multiple Triggers for War
Oliver Boyd-Barrett | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-16
Trading Genocides On April 24, 2021, US President Joseph Biden declared that the massacre of 1.5 million Turkish Armenians in 1915 constituted genocide. As to whether genocide is the word Americans can consent to use about Native Americans who suffered death, torture, displacement, apartheid and disease at the hands, mainly, of European settlers in the …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/ottomans-forever-empire-and-its-multiple-triggers-for-war/

Inside India's Vaccine Divide
Sumedha Pal | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-16
India, the pharmacy of the world is currently facing a devastating second wave of the COVID pandemic. With a surge in infections crossing the 400,000 mark on a daily basis, the population of over a billion people were pinning its hopes on the ongoing vaccination drive. This, as the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, is staring…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/16/inside-indias-vaccine-divide/

Turkey to Keep Troops in at Least Five Nations
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-16
Rick Rozoff Turkey's Anadolu news agency cited Ersin Tatar, president of the self-styled Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, insisting that Turkish troops in Northern Cyprus would never leave. To exploit an issue that is topical as well as tragic, he gratuitously added that his domain would not suffer the fate of another territory currently under attack:…
libya360.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/turkey-to-keep-troops-in-at-least-five-nations/

Cyprus: Turkey to keep troops in at least five nations
Rick Rozoff | antibellum679354512.wordpress.com | 2021-05-16
Cyprus: Turkey to keep troops in at least five nationsRick Rozoff Turkey's Anadolu news agency cited Ersin Tatar, president of the self-styled Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, insisting that Turkish troops in Northern Cyprus would never leave. To exploit an issue that is topical as well as tragic, he gratuitously added that his domain would …
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The 'Nationalists' must consult the Nation in Finding a Way Forward
Badri Raina | zcomm.org | 2021-05-16
Close to four hundred districts in India now have a positivity rate of twenty percent or…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-nationalists-must-consult-the-nation-in-finding-a-way-forward/

NATO Ready to Fight in Seven-Year Black Sea Conflict
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-16
Rick Rozoff The Romanian press, in reporting on the ongoing U.S. Army-led 30,000-troop, 27-nation war games codenamed DEFENDER-Europe 21, cited an American commander in the country characterizing them as "mutual intra-NATO defense." A suggestion: NATO should publish a Militarese-English dictionary for the uninitiated. To conduct a military exercise, or rather a veritable host of air, naval… Read…
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Commander: NATO ready to fight in seven-year Black Sea conflict
Rick Rozoff | antibellum679354512.wordpress.com | 2021-05-16
Commander: NATO ready to fight in seven-year Black Sea conflictRick Rozoff The Romanian press, in reporting on the ongoing U.S. Army-led 30,000-troop, 27-nation war games codenamed DEFENDER-Europe 21, cited an American commander in the country characterizing them as "mutual intra-NATO defense." A suggestion: NATO should publish a Militarese-English dictionary for the uninitiated. To conduct a …
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The Horror that is India
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-15
By Rahul Varman — May 12, 2021 | Why Is the Ruling Establishment Simply Incapable of Responding Any Other Way to the Pandemic? | On the morning of April 27, I got a phone call from the youngest son of a trade union veteran of Kanpur, that everyone in his large household has been down with COVID-19 (henceforth Covid)-like symptoms. Though the condition of others was stable, his father's oxygen levels were going down, and they had not been able to find either oxygen, or more importantly, a bed for him in any hospital. I called up the coordinator of a community help group being run for the Covid-affected in my…
orinocotribune.com/the-horror-that-is-india/

[World Report] COVID-19 in Turkey: a nation on edge
Kaya Genàß | thelancet.com | 2021-05-15
Turkey has the fifth most COVID-19 cases in the world and has now entered a nationwide lockdown. How did it get here? Kaya Genàß reports from Istanbul.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01098-9/fulltext?rss=yes

Johnson authorises neutered Covid-19 inquiry as Indian mutation surge takes first lives in Britain
wsws.org | 2021-05-15
The many thousands of relatives seeking justice for the preventable deaths of their loved ones will be denied, as Britain's ruling elite again turns to its favourite means of escaping responsibility for social murder–the "independent" public inquiry.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/15/couk-m15.html

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
wsws.org | 2021-05-15
Striking health workers sacked in India; Sri Lankan public health inspectors walk out; New Zealand nurses vote to strike…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/15/labo-m15.html

Liberating occupied territories: Turkey, Azerbaijan — one nation, two states
Rick Rozoff | antibellum679354512.wordpress.com | 2021-05-15
"One nation, two states!" will hold a video conference on philosophy, AzerTac news announces today. The event will he held on May 17. Excerpts: On the 103rd anniversary of our state independence in Ankara, on the occasion of the Azerbaijani-Turkish relations and the 98th anniversary of the birth of national leader Heydar Aliyev, "One nation, two …
antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2021/05/15/liberating-occupied-territories-turkey-azerbaijan-one-nation-two-states/

India: Resisting Vaccines and Corporate Capture of Farms
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-15
"The size of their population means that if you can compel people to accept the vaccine, this involves billions and billions and billions if not trillions of dollars!"
globalresearch.ca/india-resisting-vaccines-and-corporate-capture-of-farms/5745299

India: Resisting Vaccines and Corporate Capture of Farms
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-15
"The introduction of that study to India was made on the basis that it was going to be great investment in the health of India and the health of India's women. But in fact, later on, during the investigation around …
globalresearch.ca/india-resisting-vaccines-and-corporate-capture-of-farms/5745299

Death of 18 endangered elephants in India under investigation
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2021-05-15
"Poisoning could be behind the death of the elephants."
nationofchange.org/2021/05/15/death-of-18-endangered-elephants-in-india-under-investigation/

Germans, Japanese, and Marylanders Are Poisoned by the U.S. Military
Pat Elder | covertactionmagazine.com | 2021-05-15
Fire-fighting foams used on bases worldwide are contaminating the environment and endangering public health. Gàºnther Schneider, a farmer from Binsfeld, Germany, has photos that show what the stream that flows through the village of Binsfeld looks like when aqueous film-forming foam is released from a fire suppression system in hangars on the Spangdahlem Air Base–like …
covertactionmagazine.com/2021/05/15/germans-japanese-and-marylanders-are-poisoned-by-the-u-s-military/

Chile's Prosecutor's Office Probes an Alleged False Candidature
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-15
Chile's O'Higgins Regional Prosecutor's Office Saturday opened an investigation into the complaint about an allegedly false candidate registration for a council post in the ongoing subnational elections. | RELATED: | Chile Slows Voting Tables' Set Up in First Election Day | Paola Soto made the complaint about being registered by the Independent Regionalist Party (PRI) as a councilwoman candidate for the San Fernando post. | "It is something that I did not seek at all and I did not ev…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chiles-Prosecutors-Office-Probes-an-Alleged-False-Candidature-20210515-0005.html

[Perspectives] Facts and values in the history of spina bifida
Bart Lutters, Thomas Schlich | thelancet.com | 2021-05-15
Over the past two decades, maternal–fetal surgery has become a clinical reality for some pregnant women carrying a fetus diagnosed with spina bifida. Since its conception, maternal–fetal surgery has been the focus of ethical deliberation, because expected health benefits for the fetus come at the cost of potential health risks for the pregnant woman. Somewhat less attention has, however, been given to the nature of the medical criteria used to determine patient eligibility for maternal–fetal surgery from a historical perspective.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01005-9/fulltext?rss=yes

Land Exchange For Alaska Native Veterans
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-15
Juneau, AL – Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Wednesday proposed letting Alaska Native Vietnam War veterans exchange promised federal land allotments that many say are not available in their cultural regions for state lands. | Details would need to be worked out through the legislative process, with lawmakers eyeing adjournment in about two weeks. Several legislators attended Wednesday's announcement, along with Alaska Native veterans. | Dunleavy said he sees this as an opportunity to "right a wrong" the federal government should have addressed long ago. | "We're going to help them get land as close as possible to wh…
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