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23May

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Health, Politics, USA

'Reopening' Means Workers Will Die

The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life. byNegin Owliaei As other countries have shown with far more grace, the alternative isn’t shutting down forever—it’s investing in testing and social safety nets. (Photo: Shutterstock) Every morning for the last two months, I’ve checked the news in my home state of Florida with growing concern. First came the photos of unemployed people lining up to file for benefits in person, denied access to an overburdened system. Then came the news that only a tiny percentage of unemployment claims were paid out by late April. Now, barber shops and nail salons are reopening, even as the state saw its deadliest week yet. Altogether, the news paints a hor...

23May

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Palestine Affairs, Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Poll: Americans Oppose U.S. Recognition of the Nazi regime Annexation

Poll: Americans Oppose U.S. Recognition of Israeli Annexation GRANT F. SMITH IRmep Polls IRmep Poll: “Israel has said it will annex the West Bank, which has a population of 3 million Palestinians and 300,000 illegal Israeli settlers. Should the U.S. formally recognize this move?” Source: IRmep representative poll of 1,639 American adults through Google Surveys on May 10-12, 2020. Answer order randomly reversed. RMSE score sample bias 3.7 percent. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu campaigned promising to annex large swaths of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Annexation is included in the new unity agreement between the governing coalition—Likud and Blue and White—in the Israeli parliament. Netanyahu, battling serious corruption charges and due to hand over p...

“Making It Up As They Go Along:” Boris Johnson and COVID-19

23May

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Health, Politics, United Kingdom

“Making It Up As They Go Along:” Boris Johnson and COVID-19

by: KENNETH SURIN Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair As I write (the weekend of 9-10 May), the UK’s death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic has reached 31,855. The UK, unlike the US, has started counting deaths in care homes. This toll is the highest in Europe, and the second in the world after the US. The UK has a fifth of the US’s population, so translating the UK figure into US terms would amount to 160,000 US deaths from the virus (the US’s death toll as of this weekend is a little more than 80,000). Meanwhile, the Tory government’s catalogue of errors and oversights advances daily. Channel 4 News obtained detailed stock lists revealing that almost 80% of respirators in the national pandemic stockpile were out of date when COVID-19 hit the UK. The UK had to send about 50...

Discouragement Gap in College Dreams Brings Civil Rights Value to Real COVID-19 Relief

23May

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Health, Politics, USA

Discouragement Gap in College Dreams Brings Civil Rights Value to Real COVID-19 Relief

by GREG MOSES Photograph Source: Steve Snodgrass – CC BY 2.0 Assaults on Civil Rights can be loud, with microphones or guns, but the effects of structural racism are often hushed, in the silence of dreams deferred. Whether we hear it or not, the Civil Rights rollback of 2020 is well underway. To feel how Civil Rights are rolling back in a quiet, ebbing tide of college enrollments, take a look at two Austin, TX, high schools. The Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA) is three miles away from the Northeast Early College High School, but the two schools are worlds apart, according to the “schools comparison” tool at the Austin Independent School District. The High School Divide At LASA, ten percent of students are economically disadvantaged, compared to 91 percent percent...

Who Are You Kidding? The Democratic Party and the Joe Biden Fiasco

23May

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Politics, USA

Who Are You Kidding? The Democratic Party and the Joe Biden Fiasco

by GABRIEL KUHN Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The accusations against the projected Democratic Party presidential nominee, Joe Biden, trouble and confuse U.S. liberals. As a result, they say surprising and, at times, outrageous things. I suppose this is the consequence of deeming Joe Biden to the most likely candidate to oust Donald Trump from office, something so important that you’re ready to sacrifice both reason and compassion. We are told that this is a “messy affair.” If that means that any accusation of sexual misconduct is messy without witnesses or independent evidence, it is but a truism. If it means that the Joe Biden situation in particular is messy, it is false. I am neither a U.S. citizen nor resident. I lived in the country for several years and received some of...

22May

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Health, Politics

Coronavirus and Dodgy Death Numbers

By F. William Engdahl Global ResearchUrl of this article:https://www.globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-death-numbers/5712605Not only are the coronavirus models being used by WHO and the most national health agencies based on highly dubious methodologies, and not only are the tests being used of wildly different quality, that only indire- ctly confirm antibodies of a possible COVID-19 illness. Now the actual designations of deaths related to coronavirus are being revealed to be equally problematic for a variety of reasons. It gives alarming food for thought as to the wisdom of deliberately putting most of the world’s people–and with it the world economy–into Gulag-style lockdown on the argument it is necessary to contain deaths and prevent overloading of hosp...

Catholic Clergy on COVID-19: Three Cardinals Join Global Appeal Decrying Crackdown on Basic Freedoms Over Coronavirus

22May

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Health, Politics

Catholic Clergy on COVID-19: Three Cardinals Join Global Appeal Decrying Crackdown on Basic Freedoms Over Coronavirus

The signatories assert the right of the Church to offer public worship By Paul Smeaton UPDATE (May 8, 9:00AM EST): Archbishop Viganò, who gathered the signatures and communicated with Cardinal Sarah about the initiative, has now issued a timeline of his communications with Sarah. Read full report here. UPDATE (May 7, 8:00PM EST): This story originally indicated, based on information from the organizers, that Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, had joined the appeal. But the cardinal has now written on Twitter that he did not sign. “From a personal point of view, I may share some questions or preoccupations raised regarding restrictions on fundamental freedom but I didn’t sign th...

22May

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Health, Politics

The economic crisis and coronavirus

In fighting capitalist exploitation and the war danger, workers will ultimately seek a way out through socialist revolution. Ella Rule As is abundantly obvious, the coronavirus pandemic is wreaking untold damage on the world economy, and on the national economies of every country on the planet. What the coronavirus has done is to act as the catalyst for the re-emergence with even greater force of the 2008 capitalist crisis of overproduction. The world was already teetering on the brink of economic collapse, and the coronavirus has given it the kick that has sent it spiralling into the abyss. As Eric Toussaint pointed out in a recent article aptly entitled No, the coronavirus is not responsible for the fall of stock prices: “Over the past two years, th...

Communists and the struggle against imperialism

22May

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Campaigns, Politics

Communists and the struggle against imperialism

In the present era of crisis and war, our movement must return to and unite around the profound truths contained within the works of our movement's founders. Proletarian writers Chinese poster from the 1960s reads: 'Long live the victory of the people's war!' The most cursory glance at the contemporary international situation shows that imperialism’s inherent tendency to wage wars of aggression has not in any way disappeared. If anything it has become enhanced, notably after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of central and eastern Europe, since when we have seen numerous wars of colonial reconquest, such as those against Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and, most recently, Libya. Moreover, faced with what is emerging as the gravest economic crisis in the hi...

British imperialism announces: there is no peace, only war

22May

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China, Politics, Russia, United Kingdom

British imperialism announces: there is no peace, only war

Army plans to move to a permanent war footing in hopes of stopping successful economic development by Russia and China. Lalkar writers General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, the British chief of the general staff. Clausewitzs’s famous aphorism, that war is a continuation of politics by other means, has been given a 21st-century update by General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, the British chief of the general staff. Speaking to a conference of defence chiefs, Sir Mark explained that there was now no war and peace, only permanent war, which he described as a bit of a grey area. In a very modern nod to the latest philosophical fashions, Sir Mark bemoaned the ‘binary’ concepts of peace and war, stating that they were, “artificial and binary characterisations of a strategic contest”. “The rul...