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US Is Using Pandemic as an Excuse to Send Asylum Seekers Back Into Harm’s Way

28May

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Health, Human Rights, Politics, USA

US Is Using Pandemic as an Excuse to Send Asylum Seekers Back Into Harm’s Way

The first of three flights coming from Houston, Texas, arrives carrying migrants deported from the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic in Guatemala City, Guatemala, on May 4, 2020. BYSandra Cuffe, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 Fernanda* doesn’t know what to do. She fled Honduras with her husband and their toddler last year after death threats from gang members she says work with police officers in the family’s neighborhood to extort local businesses and workers. They made it more than 1,500 miles north, hoping to seek asylum in the United States, where Fernanda’s husband has an uncle who could provide them housing and support. “We just want to be safe and work and contribute,” Fernanda told Truthout. The family stopped for a while in northe...

We Don’t Have to Choose Between Our Health and the Economy

28May

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Health, Politics, USA

We Don’t Have to Choose Between Our Health and the Economy

Members of National Nurses United stand in protest among empty shoes representing nurses they say have died from COVID-19, in Lafayette Park across from the White House on May 7, 2020, in Washington, D.C. BY: Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance The United States is at a critical moment in the COVID-crisis. This week, the nation is likely to surpass 100,000 deaths and new hotspots in the south and midwest are developing. Forty-two states have either started “reopening” their economies or imminently plan to do so without putting in place essential public health measures to prevent the spread of the virus. As of May 7, more than half of the states that had either reopened or planned to do so (30 at the time) have seen an increase in case c...

27May

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Politics, USA

Joe Biden’s US national values: Reality or propaganda?

By Lawrence Davidson American values Joe Biden, presumptive Democratic Party presidential candidate, thinks he knows what American values are. Here are some of them: “inclusivity, tolerance, diversity, respect for the rule of law”. Biden defines these as among the “democratic values that define us”. Actually, what Biden is describing are practices that allegedly reflect American values. And, indeed, these are the sort of practices/values that most US citizens agree are important. Most, but not all – not the 30 to 35 per cent of Americans who constitute President Donald Trump’s infamous base. These citizens are typically intolerant and are uncomfortable with diversity. Their notion of inclusiveness does not go much beyond their own perceived community or g...

England Falsifies COVID Data: More than A Hundred Thousand Coronavirus Tests were “Double-counted”

26May

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Health, Politics, United Kingdom

England Falsifies COVID Data: More than A Hundred Thousand Coronavirus Tests were “Double-counted”

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky According to The Daily Telegraph (May 21, 2020): “samples taken from the same patient are being recorded as two separate tests in the Government’s official figures”. “Tens of thousands of Covid-19 tests have been double-counted in the Government’s official tally, public health officials have admitted.” “Diagnostic tests which involve taking saliva and nasal samples from the same patient are being counted as two tests, not one. The Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England each confirmed the double-counting. This inflates the daily reported diagnostic test numbers by over 20 per cent, with that proportion being much higher earlier on in the crisis before home test kits were added to ...

25May

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Human Rights, Politics, World

The Future Is Up for Grabs

History is made, not decreed, which is why on May 11th, activists from dozens of different countries launched Progressive International, a global initiative with a mission to unite, organize and mobilize progressive forces. by: Laura Flanders The future is up for grabs. Let’s not let the kingpins be the only ones reaching for it. (Photo: Screenshot) When it comes to cashing in on Covid-19, the race has just begun. Whether you’re talking about education or contact tracing or medicine or mind control, an anti-democratic, dystopian future is being charted while we the people are locked down, locked up and locked out. Google is grabbing our data, Microsoft is coming for our classrooms and Amazon wants to be our one-stop, only shop. Naomi Klein’s latest piece, “Screen New Deal” in...

COVID-19: Why Iran Is Doing Better Than You Think

25May

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Health, Iran, Politics

COVID-19: Why Iran Is Doing Better Than You Think

by KARIM SHARARA Photograph Source: Fars News Agency – CC BY 2.0 So Iran’s going through its worst year and is hiding the true numbers of Coronavirus victims? It seems it’s also been digging mass graves because it can’t handle the increasing number of deaths, and people are collapsing on the street left and right because of the COVID-19 outbreak. Not only that but apparently the evil Iranian regime will (as predicted by the most knowledgeable of pundits, as always), collapse due to the outbreak; just as it collapsed during and after the 8-year war with Iraq, again once the reformists won the 1997 elections, then again in 2009, not to mention 2011 after the Arab spring, and most recently in both 2017-2018. Either the Islamic Republic is a cat o...

Coronavirus and the Constitution: Entering the Not-So-Brave New World

25May

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Health, Politics, World

Coronavirus and the Constitution: Entering the Not-So-Brave New World

By Prof. Lynn Wolfe Two months have passed since the lockdown began, and statistics indicate that the coronavirus death toll hasn’t risen as high as we might have supposed. Yet already we hear rhetoric of a “post-COVID world,” hauntingly reminiscent of the “post-9/11 world.” However, unlike the tangible event of 9/11, COVID is a threat of an entirely different nature, an “invisible enemy.” The enemy isn’t “out there” to defeat in the old-fashioned way, with bombs and machine guns. But all the same, its pervasiveness renders us into a constant state of paranoia. Even our loved ones become potential threats; we all pose a risk to those around us, therefore perpetrating the omnipresent danger. To use the post-9/11 term, we are all terrorists. That’s why we must stay under ...

25May

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Politics, USA

Class Politics Fit for the Times

The themes the Left should be coalescing around are dismantling rentier capitalism, offering a new income distribution system in which basic income divorced from the performance of labor is the anchor, and reviving all forms of commons and commoning. by: Guy Standing There has been the conversion of the commons into part of the structure of rent-seeking, and the US-designed intellectual property rights regime has come to dominate global capitalism. (Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images) As fate would have it, Valentine Moghadam’s essay has been overtaken by events, but it reminds us how we can be found framing today’s challenges in yesterday’s vocabulary, imagery, and paradigms. I have known Moghadam for a long time and admired her work and values. My primary concern is the o...

24May

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Oxfam Report Details 'Catastrophic Failure' of Efforts to Coordinate Global Ceasefire During Covid-19 Crisis

"Managing coronavirus is hard enough when a country is at peace but fueling conflict on top of a pandemic is reprehensible." byJessica Corbett, A woman named Mary at the Mangaten IDP Camp in South Sudan holds up her hands, which bear the message, "Peace will give us our home back." (Photo: Robert Fogarty/Oxfam) Despite efforts from diplomats and world leaders—including United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres—the international community has failed to establish a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic, which advocates argue is essential to help protect two billion people from Covid-19, according to Oxfam International. Conflict in the Time of Coronavirus, an Oxfam report released Tuesday, explains that "at the very moment where we need all of our resources to...

24May

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

UN publishes list of companies profiting from Israel’s illegal settlements in Palestine

Date: February 15, 2020Author: Brett Wilkins0 Comments Originally published at Antiwar.com Also published at Common Dreams Read the list here After years of unexplained delays, the United Nations this week released a list of over 100 companies with ties to illegal Israeli settler colonies in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. In a statement released on Wednesday, the UN Human Rights Office identified 112 businesses profiting from the Jews-only settlements. Of those, 94 are based in Israel, while 18 are headquartered in countries including the United States, United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Thailand. The UN report is a response to a 2016 United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) resolution calling for a “database for al...