2021-05-28: Social Media Postees

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[World Report] Cambodia ends controversial COVID-19 restrictions
Megan Tatum | thelancet.com | 2021-05-29
Strict policies that prevented hundreds of thousands of people from leaving home, and left many without food or supplies for weeks, have been lifted. Megan Tatum reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01196-X/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Cultures of contagion
Aarathi Prasad | thelancet.com | 2021-05-29
The Science Gallery Bengaluru's online exhibition CONTAGION opened in April, 2021, just as India approached a staggering 20 million reported cases of COVID-19, a number likely to be a vast undercount. The alarming second wave of COVID-19 in India gives this exhibition an immediacy and relevance.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01154-5/fulltext?rss=yes

How America Does Regime-Change Propaganda
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-05-28
Illustrative image | Written by Eric Zuesse. | In the case of Saddam Hussein, it was by lying about "WMD" and about Saddam's being behind Al Qaeda. | In the case of Muammar Qaddafi, it was by lying about Qaddafi's being hated (instead of supported) by most Libyans. | In the case of Bashar al-Assad, it was by lying about Assad's being hated (instead of supported) by most Syrians. | In the case of Xi Jinping, it is by lying about Xi's being a dictator. | In the case of Vladimir Putin, it is by lying about Putin's being…
southfront.org/how-america-does-regime-change-propaganda/

Bashar Al-Assad Elected For His 4th Term As Syrian President
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-05-28
Click to see full-size image | In an expected outcome, Syria's incumbent president Bashar al-Assad won the May 26th election with 95.1% of the vote. | Assad's government said the election shows Syria is functioning normally despite the decade-old conflict. | Syria's parliament speaker, Hammouda Sabbagh announced the results at a news conference, saying voter turnout was around 78%, with more than 14 million Syrians taking part. | The Speaker went on to say that the second candidate to…
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Syrian Security Forces Clash With Protesters In Daraa City (Video)
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-28
Screen grab from the protest video. | Late on May 27, Syrian security forces clashed with pro-opposition protesters in the southern city of Daraa, a former stronghold of the rebels. | Dozens of opposition supporters took to the streets in the southern part of Daraa, known as Daraa al-Balad, to protest against the presidential elections which saw President Bashar al-Assad wining with 95.1% of the votes. | The gathering was pea…
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Necropolis Now: The U.S. Assault on Iraqi Healthcare
Nick Alexandrov | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-28
The recent Baghdad hospital fire, Western reporters told Iraq, is a "you" problem. The Washington Post blamed the country's "endemic corruption" for the 82 deaths. The New York Times denounced its "mismanagement" and "legacy of decrepit infrastructure." And the Wall Street Journal, quoting Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, cited "negligence." But Iraqi healthcare wasn't always…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/28/necropolis-now-the-u-s-assault-on-iraqi-healthcare/

"Somos conejillos de indias humanos": Las alarmantes tasas de víctimas de las vacunas de ARNm requieren acción urgente
F. William Engdahl | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-28
*** | A medida que surgen datos oficiales del gobierno en Europa y EE. UU. Sobre el alarmante número de muertes y parálisis permanente, así como otros efectos secundarios graves de las vacunas experimentales de ARNm, está quedando claro que se…
globalizacion.ca/somos-conejillos-de-indias-humanos-las-alarmantes-tasas-de-bajas-de-las-vacunas-de-arnm-requieren-una-accion-urgente/

Vijay Prashad on India, Covid and Modi
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting | fair.org | 2021-05-28
New York Times ( 5/25/21) | This week on CounterSpin: A May 25 New York Times story reports that India's leading Bharatiya Janata Party is pressuring Twitter to censor and sanction anyone posting critically about prime minister Narendra Modi. An after-dusk visit by "officers from India's elite antiterrorism police unit" to Twitter's New Delhi offices wasn't so much legally binding as symbolic, the Times explained, sending a "a clear message that…
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What Does It Mean to be a Woman, a Mother and a Grandmother in Gaza?
Andaleeb Adwan | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-28
Don't think that I'm addressing this to both genders out of concern for gender equality or to ensure gender-sensitive language. No. I want each of you, man or woman — those that God placed outside of Gaza, whether you're Palestinian or not — to try to seriously imagine yourselves in Gaza now, even for just…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/28/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-woman-a-mother-and-a-grandmother-in-gaza/

Students back on UK campuses amid explosive growth of Indian covid variant
wsws.org | 2021-05-28
The reopening of campuses last September led to the massive spread of covid, forcing thousands of students to self-isolate after travelling away from friends and family, and the government is repeating the same reckless policy, recommending that all students be "eligible to return to in-person teaching and learning."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/28/unuk-m28.html

Indian and Sri Lankan workers and students explain why they are attending the May 30 meeting on India's COVID-19 catastrophe
wsws.org | 2021-05-28
SEP members in Sri Lanka and the ICFI supporters in India spoke with workers and students who plan to attend this Sunday's meeting.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/28/meet-m28.html

Mapping Faultlines: Battles over airspace, geopolitics in Belarus
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-28
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent incident in Belarus where a plane carrying dissident and anti-government activist Roman Protasevich was made to land and he was detained…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/28/mapping-faultlines-battles-over-airspace-geopolitics-in-belarus/

California Assembly bill aims to remove derogatory term 'alien' from state law
Special to People's World | peoplesworld.org | 2021-05-28
SACRAMENTO — Assemblywoman Luz Rivas's (D-Arleta) Assembly Bill 1096 was approved by the California Assembly Thurs., May 20, with bipartisan support and will now move on to the State Senate. It is expected that that bill will also pass in the Senate. AB 1096 eliminates the offensive term "alien" from all state codes. The legislation …
peoplesworld.org/article/california-assembly-bill-aims-to-remove-derogatory-term-alien-from-state-law/

Sherry Buchanan:The Women Warriors Who Stopped the U.S. Genocide in Vietnam
Moderator | scheerpost.com | 2021-05-28
Photo courtesy of Sherry Buchanan] Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play The Vietnam War–or, as it is more accurately called in Vietnam, the American War–has become an inextricable and tragic part of the fabric of both Vietnamese and American society. America's Cold War intervention in the Asian country was as much an act of neocolonialism as it was a consequence of the country's… | Source…
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The Long Silence of Bao Ninh
Rohit Inani | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-28
In the fall of 2018, Rohit Inani, a freelance journalist based in New Delhi, contacted CounterPunch contributor Marc Levy after reading his 1998 interview with Bao Ninh. Rohit, who admires Ninh's work, asked to be put in touch with Ninh. Several weeks later, with help from the Joiner Institute, and the Vietnamese Writer's Association, Rohit…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/28/the-long-silence-of-bao-ninh/

Three Turkish Proxy Groups Merged In New Formation In Northern Syria
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-28
File image. | On May 28, three Turkish-backed armed groups in northern Syria merged in a new formation led by the Syrian National Army (SNA) called the 13th Division. | In a joint statement, the groups, the Mehmed the Conqueror Division, the Samarkand Brigade and the Waqqas Brigade, said that the step is meant organize military forces in Turkish-occupied areas in northern and northeastern Syria. | The three groups are among the smallest factions of the SNA, which was formed in 2017 to unify Turkish-backed groups and pla…
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Iraqi Security Forces Thwarted Rocket Attack In Baghdad (Photos)
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-28
Click to see full-size image. | On May 28, the Iraqi Security Media Cell announced that the Federal Police had thwarted a rocket attack on an unspecified target in the capital Baghdad. | An improvised rocket launched loaded with three "Katyusha" [107 mm] rockets and wired to a timer was found in the al-Jihad neighborhood, which is located around 5 kilometers to the east of Baghdad International Airport. | "A security force uncovered a rocket launcher prepared to targ…
southfront.org/iraqi-security-forces-thwarted-rocket-attack-in-baghdad-photos/

Marco Rubio García, monomaniaco y mitómano
José A. Amesty R. | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-28
Sin duda alguna el senador republicano Marco Rubio García en EEUU, se ha convertido en el estratega de presión contra Cuba y Venezuela. Su verborrea barata, repetitiva, politiquera y mentirosa, lo hace ser un monomanà¨aco y mentiroso. | Su última perla…
globalizacion.ca/marco-rubio-garcia-monomaniaco-y-mitomano/

Assad Wins Syria's Presidential Election
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-27
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has won his fourth seven-year term in the 2021 presidential race, the Syrian parliament announced on Thursday. | Hamoudeh Sabbagh, the parliament speaker, said that Assad won 95.1 percent of the vote as opposed to 88.7 percent in the 2014 election. | RELATED: | Elections Reaffirm Syrian People's Will, Prime Minister Says | He said that about 14 million of the estimated 18 million eligible voters inside and outside Syria cast their votes, with a turno…
telesurenglish.net/news/Assad-Wins-Syrias-Presidential-Election-20210527-0016.html

No Tokyo Olympics: As COVID Spikes in Japan, Calls Grow to Cancel Games. IOC Refuses. Who Profits?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-05-27
Pressure is growing on organizers to cancel the Tokyo Olympics as Japan struggles to contain a fourth wave of COVID-19 cases. The games, which were delayed by a year due to the pandemic, are scheduled to begin July 23 even though less than 3% of the Japanese population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, one of the lowest rates in the developed world. Jules Boykoff, author and former Olympic athlete who played for the U.S. Olympic soccer team, says the "extremely lopsided" contracts the International Olympic Committee signs with host countries give the body ultimate authority over whether or not to cancel…
www.democracynow.org/2021/5/27/cancel_tokyo_olympics

US-funded Belarusian Regime-Change Activist Arrested on Plane Joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Ben Norton | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-27
By Ben Norton — May 26, 2021 | Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, joined Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government's media apparatus. | A high-profile Belarusian regime-change activist whose detention on a forcibly grounded airplane caused an international scandal has extensive links to neo-fascist groups, which his political sponsors in Western capitals have conveniently overlooked. | Right-wing activist Roman Protasevich was traveling on the Irish airliner Ryanair on May 23 when the plane crossed int…
orinocotribune.com/us-funded-belarusian-regime-change-activist-arrested-on-plane-joined-neo-nazis-in-ukraine/

U.S.-funded Belarusian regime-change activist arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2021-05-27
Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, joined Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the U.S. government's media apparatus. | May 27, 2021…
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The Strategic Significance of the Syrian Elections
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-27
The Hybrid War …
globalresearch.ca/strategic-significance-syrian-elections/5746296

Today I Saw Syrians Dancing and Celebrating Life, and a Return to Peace — but, of Course, the Western Media Won't Report that
Eva Bartlett | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-27
Although the West …
globalresearch.ca/today-i-saw-syrians-dancing-celebrating-life-return-peace-western-media-wont-report-that/5746346

The New York Times Says 200,000,000 People Have Been Infected with Covid in the United States (sort of)
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2021-05-27
This is the implication of its analysis of likely Covid deaths and infections in India. Its central estimate assumes a case fatality rate of 0.3. This means that for every thousand people who get infected, three will die. There have been roughly 600,000 reported deaths from Covid, since the pandemic began. If this is 0.3 …
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A Caring World Needs a Sharing World to End the COVID-19 Pandemic
Prabir Purkayastha | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-27
After three months of dithering, the Biden administration eventually agreed to a temporary waiver of patent rights for the COVID-19 vaccines. The proposal by South Africa and India for a waiver on intellectual property rights in the World Trade Organization has found support from a large number of countries and more than 400 public health…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/27/a-caring-world-needs-a-sharing-world-to-end-the-covid-19-pandemic/

Video: War-torn Syria Takes to the Voting Polls
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-27
In Iraq, attacks …
globalresearch.ca/video-war-torn-syria-takes-voting-polls/5746318

COVID'S "Olympic" Strain Feared During Summer Tokyo Games
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-27
The head of the Japan Doctors Union, Dr. Naoto Ueyama, has issued a warning related to the upcoming Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo, explaining that the convergence of thousands of athletes from all over the world could create an 'Olympic' strain of Covid-19, as Japan currently battles a fourth wave of the virus. | RELATED: | Japan's Health Workers Revolt Against Tokyo Olympics | Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Dr. Ueyama highlighted how proceeding with the Olympic games would bring toge…
telesurenglish.net/news/COVIDS-Olympic-Strain-Feared-During-Summer-Tokyo-Games-20210527-0020.html

Hyundai and Renault-Nissan forced to shut Indian plants due to worker unrest over lack of COVID-19 protections
wsws.org | 2021-05-27
The autoworkers' job action underscores that it is the global working class that is the main source of opposition to the ruling elite's criminal "open economy" policy, which prioritizes capitalist profit over saving workers' lives.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/27/inau-m27.html

Australia: Victorian state government announces lockdown amid outbreak of Indian COVID variant
wsws.org | 2021-05-27
While infection numbers remain low, the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, including in the state capital of Melbourne, and more than 10,000 people have been deemed as contacts of confirmed cases.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/27/vict-m27.html

For the First Time, Big Oil Is Held Liable for Climate Change
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-27
Hundreds of thousands of farmers, workers and members of trade unions, student and women organizations observed a protest at thousands of places across India on Wednesday, May 26. The day marked the completion of six months of the historic farmers' protest against the three contentious farm laws passed by the government of Narendra Modi. Farmers across India have opposed the laws, saying it will dismantle vital state regulations, reduce the price they get for their produce and lead to greater corporate entry in agriculture.
popularresistance.org/across-india-protesters-mark-six-months-of-historic-farmers-agitation/

International delegation visits Douma day before Syrian elections
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-05-27
Douma, Syria – On Tuesday, May 25, one day before the Syrian election, an international delegation, which includes a number of observers from the U.S., visited the war-torn cities of Douma and Jobar just outside Damascus. The observers viewed tunnel networks used by terrorists during the six-year occupation of the city and spoke to residents who had returned after the city was liberated in 2018 by the Syrian Arab Army. | Soldiers guided the delegation through the city riddled with rubble and bullet holes as far as the eye can see. The area had been occupied by the Saudi-backed Jaish al Islam from 2012 until 2018.
www.fightbacknews.org/2021/5/26/international-delegation-visits-douma-day-syrian-elections

US-funded Belarusian regime-change activist arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-27
Belarusian regime-change activist Roman Protasevich, whose arrest on a grounded plane caused a global scandal, joined Ukraine's neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and was cultivated by the US government's media apparatus.
popularresistance.org/us-funded-belarusian-regime-change-activist-arrested-on-plane-joined-neo-nazis-in-ukraine/

Azerbaijan Takes 6 Armenian Servicemen Prisoner In Nagorno-Karabakh
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-05-27
Click to see full-size image | On May 27th, 6 Armenian soldiers were arrested and taken prisoner by Azerbaijani troops in Nagorno-Karabakh's Kalbajar province. | Both sides blame the other for the situation. Armenia claimed that Azerbaijan encroached on its territory, and it has been doing so since May 12th. The Armenian soldiers were conducting repair work on a base in a border region, and the Azerbaijani troops surrounded them and took them captive."The Azerbaijani troops, who have infiltrated into Arme…
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Syrian Army Stormed Northern Daraa Town After Attack On Intelligence Center, Police Station (Videos)
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-27
Illustrative image | The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) stormed Dael in the northern countryside of Daraa following a large hit-and-run attack on government buildings in the town. | Late on May 26, unidentified gunmen attacked the Ba'ath Party office, where a detachment of the Air Force Intelligence Directorate is deployed, as well as the local police station in Dael. Heavy clashes broke out in the town. Moreover, local sources reported hearing at least two large explosions. | | According to the pro-opposition Horan Free League n…
southfront.org/syrian-army-stormed-northern-daraa-town-after-attack-on-intelligence-center-police-station-videos/

Syrian Mercenaries Are Faking Illness To Return From Libya: Monitoring Group
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-27
Illustrative image. | Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries in Libya are faking illness in order to return to their country, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on May 27. | According to the London-based monitoring group, the mercenaries are doing this because Turkey has not withdrawn any group from Libya in a while. | "A small number of mercenaries returned to Syria after they provided medical reports and falsified some of them by bribing the leaders of Turkish-backed factions, amid widespread discont…
southfront.org/syrian-mercenaries-are-faking-illness-to-return-from-libya-monitoring-group/

Twelve years since the end of Sri Lanka's communal war
wsws.org | 2021-05-27
The military and its brutal methods used during the war are now being prepared for use against the working class as unrest grows over the worsening social conditions facing working people.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/27/slwr-m27.html

Alton Estate workers in Sri Lanka confront harsh and worsening social conditions
wsws.org | 2021-05-27
The horrendous conditions confronting Alton Estate workers typify the plight of tens of thousands of plantation workers across Sri Lanka.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/27/camp-m27.html

Protests over struggling economy and unemployment in Oman enter fourth day
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-27
The police crackdown on protesters using British-manufactured tear gas has led a UK-based campaign group to demand the review of sale of arms and riot/crowd control equipment to the Gulf state by the British government…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/27/protests-over-struggling-economy-and-unemployment-in-oman-enter-fourth-day/

Why Aren't We Talking about Farmers in India?
Raj Patel | zcomm.org | 2021-05-27
Protesters have declared that they will remain either until Modi repeals his agricultural reforms or until he loses his 2024 reelection bid…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-arent-we-talking-about-farmers-in-india/

Border Boo Boos
Kent Paterson | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-27
We've withstood some pretty fierce winds in the region lately. But so far, fortunately, no wind has been powerful enough to completely blow a community from one end of the map to the other. What Mother Nature hadn't accomplished, however, the Associated Press (AP) achieved in a Friday, May 21 story about the identification of a woman's remains in Eddy County, New Mexico. Here is the lead sentence of the story:…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/27/border-boo-boos/

India marks day of resistance as farmers' struggle continues and other stories
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-27
In today's episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the nationwide 'Black Day' of resistance observed in India as the ongoing farmers' struggle completes 6 months, the crackdown on a protest against the killing of activists in Iraq, the success of a 22 month long struggle for better working conditions and pay by workers at the Ibis des Batignolles hotel in France, the ongoing crackdown on Papuan communities in Indonesia as they demand the release of political prisoners, and volunteer initiatives to feed poor and unhoused people in Brazil in the absence of adequate government aid policies during the pandemi…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/27/india-marks-day-of-resistance-as-farmers-struggle-continues-and-other-stories/

Across India, protesters mark six months of historic farmers' agitation
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-27
Across India, members of farmers' groups, trade unions and women's and students' organizations held aloft black protest flags and burnt copies of the three controversial farm laws which have been fiercely opposed…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/27/across-india-protesters-mark-six-months-of-historic-farmers-agitation/

Protestors demanding freedom for political prisoners in West Papua face arrests and violence
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-27
As demands for the release of Papuan pro-independence activist Victor Yeimo grow in Indonesia, protesters are facing repression and mass arrests. Yeimo, general secretary of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), was arrested earlier this month for his role in the anti-racism protests of 2019.
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/27/protestors-demanding-freedom-political-prisoners-west-papua-face-arrests/

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