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2021-05-17: Social Media Postees

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Sri Lankan government opposes national lockdown despite surging COVID-19 infections
wsws.org | 2021-05-17
Opposition parties are also responsible for the government's criminal policies in response to the pandemic and other social attacks.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/17/slco-m17.html

How Bill Gates Set the Stage for Modi's Disastrous Response to COVID-19 in India
Prabir Purkayastha | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-17
While the incompetence of the Indian government is starkly visible in its handling of the second wave of the COVID-19 crisis, its performance has been far worse on the vaccine front. The BJP-led government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which seems to believe in the ideology of free-market capitalism, thinks that the market will magically…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/17/how-bill-gates-set-the-stage-for-modis-disastrous-response-to-covid-19-in-india-2/

Asian Hate Is on the Rise
Christine Thach | indybay.org | 2021-05-17
This article is about recent hate crimes that have been happening towards older Asian people. Many Asians have been getting attacked because COVID happened, and many people assume that every Asian have COVID-19.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/16/18842536.php

In New India, Can the Prime Minister Never Be Criticised?
Badri Raina | zcomm.org | 2021-05-17
With FIRs being registered against those who put up a poster critical of Narendra Modi, it appears the citizen does not have the fundamental right to express an unfavourable opinion of the government and the prime minister…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/in-new-india-can-the-prime-minister-never-be-criticised/

30,000 Cases of Side Effects Reported from AstraZeneca CoviShield Vaccines in Sweden
Great Game India | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-17
An official tally …
globalresearch.ca/30000-cases-side-effects-reported-astrazeneca-covishield-vaccines-sweden/5745506

The Power of Romanticism Today: 21st Century Irrationalism
Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-17
"Christianity defeated and …
globalresearch.ca/power-romanticism-today-21st-century-irrationalism/5745421

Australia must stop supporting state terror in the Philippines
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2021-05-17
Filipino-Australian community groups have launched a petition to demand the Australian government stop military aid to the Philippine, reports Patricia Arcilla.
greenleft.org.au/content/australia-must-stop-supporting-state-terror-philippines

Military Situation In Syria On May 17, 2021 (Map Update)
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-05-17
Click to see full-size image | On May 16, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on SAA members in Nawa city on 15th May | On May 16, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on SDF vehicle west of Tabqah | On May 16, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on SDF members south of Markadah | On May 16, SDF with support of US coalition carried out a security operation in the Dhiban area | On May 16, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces north of Lattakia | On May 16, Intra-…
southfront.org/military-situation-in-syria-on-may-17-2021-map-update/

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/

Asian Hate Is on the Rise
Christine Thach | indybay.org | 2021-05-16
This article is about recent hate crimes that have been happening towards older Asian people. Many Asians have been getting attacked because COVID happened, and many people assume that every Asian have COVID-19.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/16/18842536.php

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/

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 …
antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/cyprus-turkey-to-keep-troops-in-at-least-five-nations/

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/

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/

Storm Of Terror: ISIS Claimed 280 Operations In Syria, Iraq In Last 30 Days
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-16
File image. | ISIS claimed that its cells had carried out 280 operations in Iraq and Syria over the last 30 days in an infographic released by its news agency, Amaq, on May 16. | According to the infographic: | ISIS cells in Iraq carried out a total of 201 operations between April 13 and May 13, including 73 attacks in Kirkuk, 57 in Diyala, 30 in Saladin, 17 in al-Anbar, 15 in Baghdad and 3 in Babylon. | ISIS cells in Syria carried out a total of 79 operations between April 13 and May 13, including 40 attacks in Deir Ez…
southfront.org/storm-of-terror-isis-claimed-280-operations-in-syria-iraq-in-last-30-days/

Military Situation In Iraq On May 16, 2021 (Map Update)
Anonymous007 | southfront.org | 2021-05-16
Click to see full-size image | On May 14, a logistical convoy of the US military was targeted by an IED attack in the Naseriyah area | On May 15, the US coalition carried out nine airstrikes on the Hamrin mountains, reportedly resulting in the destruction of five ISIS hideouts | On May 16, large demonstration held in Baghdad to show solidarity with Palestinians | In the first four months of 2021, 67 individuals were killed which19 of them are Turkish soldiers, 34 PKK militants and two civilians, accor…
southfront.org/military-situation-in-iraq-on-may-16-2021-map-update/

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 …
antibellum679354512.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/commander-nato-ready-to-fight-in-seven-year-black-sea-conflict/

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…
libya360.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/nato-ready-to-fight-in-seven-year-black-sea-conflict/

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2021-05-16: News Headlines

Sumedha Pal (2021-05-16). Inside India's Vaccine Divide. counterpunch.org 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

Oliver Boyd-Barrett (2021-05-16). Ottoman's Forever Empire and its Multiple Triggers for War. dissidentvoice.org 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 …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-16). Turkey to Keep Troops in at Least Five Nations. libya360.wordpress.com 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: "The…

Rick Rozoff (2021-05-16). Cyprus: Turkey to keep troops in at least five nations. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com 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 …

Badri Raina (2021-05-16). The 'Nationalists' must consult the Nation in Finding a Way Forward. zcomm.org Close to four hundred districts in India now have a positivity rate of twenty percent or more…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-05-16). NATO Ready to Fight in Seven-Year Black Sea Conflict. libya360.wordpress.com 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…

Rick Rozoff (2021-05-16). Commander: NATO ready to fight in seven-year Black Sea conflict. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com 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 …

Kaya Genàß (2021-05-15). [World Report] COVID-19 in Turkey: a nation on edge. thelancet.com 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.

WSWS (2021-05-15). Johnson authorises neutered Covid-19 inquiry as Indian mutation surge takes first lives in Britain. wsws.org 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.

Editor2 (2021-05-15). Biden Administration Affirms US Support for Corrupt Jordanian Monarchy Amidst Suppression of Alleged Coup Attempt. orinocotribune.com By Christian Sorensen — May 5, 2021 | Pattern of U.S. Support for Autocracy across the Middle East | In early April, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the former crown prince of Jordan, was imprisoned under house arrest. | King Abdullah II, who is Hamzah's half-brother and the absolute ruler of Jordan, ordered Prince Hamzah to cease communications with the outside world. | Prince Hamzah said he would not keep quiet, tweeting, "I'm not going to obey when they say you can't go out, you can't tweet, you can't communicate with people." | The Jordanian deputy prime minister, Ayman Safadi, claimed that the prince was inv…

WSWS (2021-05-15). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific. wsws.org Striking health workers sacked in India; Sri Lankan public health inspectors walk out; New Zealand nurses vote to strike…

Rick Rozoff (2021-05-15). Liberating occupied territories: Turkey, Azerbaijan — one nation, two states. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com "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 …

newsnetwork.mayoclinic (2021-05-15). Mother and son share rare muscle disorder, treated decades apart by same doctor. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Twenty-four years ago, Bobbi Heinold, 17, was diagnosed with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, a genetic muscle condition characterized by weakness, especially in the face, shoulder blades and upper arms. Doctors told her it could affect her quality of life. Bobbi and her mom drove from their Indiana home to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to learn …

Michael Welch (2021-05-15). India: Resisting Vaccines and Corporate Capture of Farms. globalresearch.ca "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 …

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

Editor2 (2021-05-15). The Republics of 'Rumplandia' & the Security of the Unborn. orinocotribune.com By El Cayapo — May 11, 2021 | The global monopolistic process of the large transnationals pursues the goal of a single owner on the planet. This requires the elimination of nation-states and corporate taxation, the appropriation of the wealth administered by the states. We are talking about savings banks, trusts, contributions, health and housing insurance, subsidies, benefits, pensions and other demands, achieved by the working class during their struggles. They also seek to control directly the areas of natural resources, raw materials, energies and very cheap labor. | Let us look at the cases of Iraq, Lib…

DXE (2021-05-15). Saturday 5/22: Seaspiracy Postering. indybay.org Cha-Ya Vegetarian Japanese Restaurant…

Pat Elder (2021-05-15). Germans, Japanese, and Marylanders Are Poisoned by the U.S. Military. covertactionmagazine.com 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 …

teleSUR (2021-05-15). Chile's Prosecutor's Office Probes an Alleged False Candidature. telesurenglish.net 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: | 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…

Bart Lutters, Thomas Schlich (2021-05-15). [Perspectives] Facts and values in the history of spina bifida. thelancet.com 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.

_____ (2021-05-15). Land Exchange For Alaska Native Veterans. popularresistance.org 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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