If Coronavirus Overwhelms Gaza, Israel Alone will be to Blame
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-14
The Palestinians of Gaza know all about lockdowns. For the past 13 years, some two million of them have endured a closure by Israel more extreme than anything experienced by almost any other society
The Arab-Israeli Alliance Is Fueling Conflicts in the Middle East
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-14
There are 2 camps in the Middle East: those countries which work with 'Israel', and those who do not. The countries which have established relationships with 'Israel' are Turkey; United Arab Emirates (UAE); Saudi Arabia; Qatar; Bahrain; Oman; Jordan; Egypt. …
globalresearch.ca/arab-israeli-alliance-fueling-conflicts-middle-east/5709569
Amazing Grace and Courage Amid the Plague
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-14
Amazing Grace and Courage Amid the Plague…
thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-trump-racism-voting/
Republican Supreme Court justice defeated in Wisconsin vote
wsws.org | 2020-04-14
Appointed incumbent Daniel Kelly lost to Democrat Jill Karofsky despite Republican Party efforts to rig the voting in last week's election, whose results were released April 13.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/14/wisc…
Iran's $1.6bn blocked assets not yet released: Luxembourg court
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-14
TEHRAN, Apr. 14 (MNA)
Prague Shows No Respect to Russians Who Liberated It from Nazism
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-14
Marshal Ivan Konev, the famous Soviet general who was responsible for liberating most of Eastern Europe from Nazi Germany and its allies has been a figure of respect. He has been immortalized in a series of busts and statues …
globalresearch.ca/prague-shows-no-respect-russians-liberated-from-nazism/5709581
Ayatollah Trump Declares "Total Authority"
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-04-14
Top 5 Ways he is Becoming American Version of Iran's Supreme Leader…
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Bolivia Indigenous Denounce Añez for Discrimination
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-14
Bolivian native organizations denounced the de facto president Jeanine Añez for discrimination against Indigenous communities during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | We Call for the Immediate Release of the Political Prisoner and Afrobolivian Leader, Irene Elena Flores Torrez | According to Confederation Bartolina Sisa's leader Irisolda Ribero, the government has not complied with promises and strategies in combatting the virus. As Ribero explains, the de facto p…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-indigenous-organizations-denounce-anez-for-discrimination-20200414-0003.html
10th Amendment on Presidential Powers; Destruction of Food Crime Against Humanity
Basic Education | indybay.org | 2020-04-14
Contrary to Nazi Trump, his powers are limited by the 10th Amendment to the Constitution. Meanwhile, neither he nor any governor is buying the vegetables and milk being destroyed by farmers who lost schools and restaurant customers and donating the food and milk to food banks where millions of starving people line up every day for food, or what is left of the food since the food banks are running out of food.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/13/18832337.php
10th Amendment on Presidential Powers; Destruction of Food Crime Against Humanity
Basic Education | indybay.org | 2020-04-14
Contrary to Nazi Trump, his powers are limited by the 10th Amendment to the Constitution. Meanwhile, neither he nor any governor is buying the vegetables and milk being destroyed by farmers who lost schools and restaurant customers and donating the food and milk to food banks where millions of starving people line up every day for food, or what is left of the food since the food banks are running out of food.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/13/18832337.php
Islamophobia Has No Place in the Fight Against COVID-19
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-14
From politics to social media, Muslims or anything associated with Islam (whether correctly or not) are dehumanized as objects against which to measure the intensity or severity of all things negative and threatening. Such comparisons reinforce conscious and subconscious biases, and prime society and lawmakers to implement drastic and often repressive measures to address the latest perceived threat ostensibly posed by Muslims or Islam. | This cycle is nothing new. It should therefore come as no surprise that in t…
truthout.org/articles/islamophobia-has-no-place-in-the-fight-against-covid-19/
Russian MPs approve bill on dual citizenship for foreigners in 1st reading
rt.com | 2020-04-14
The lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, has approved the first reading of the bill, according to which foreigners no longer have to give up their existing citizenship when being granted the Russian one. | Currently, when applying for Russian citizenship, foreigners must confirm that they had addressed their country's corresponding bodies in order to give up their original citizenship. The new bill cancels this requirement. | Chairman of the Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Leonid Kalashnikov said that previously this measure was in place onl…
rt.com/newsline/485791-russian-citizenship-foreigners-duma/
What Dr. Anthony Fauci Hopes to Never Hear Again: "I'm Shaking It, Boss"
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-14
As any risk-taking pioneer knows, it is lonely taking the lead and suffering the derisive scorn of one's compatriots. I have been there and so can understand what Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of The National Institute of Allergy …
globalresearch.ca/what-dr-anthony-fauci-hopes-never-hear-again-im-shaking-it-boss/5709549
'The value of your lives is supreme': Modi extends India's nationwide Covid-19 lockdown until May 3 as country tops 10,000 cases
rt.com | 2020-04-14
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced an extension of the country's coronavirus lockdown, noting that while social distancing is working, another month of restrictions is needed as the nation fights the pandemic. | The prolonged lockdown came on Tuesday morning, with the PM telling citizens in a national address that their efforts were paying off, but that India is still not ready to lift its national quarantine. | Initially imposed in late March for 21 days, the measures are now set expire on May 3, Modi said, adding however that restrictions in some areas may be relaxed. | These measures have com…
rt.com/news/485727-india-coronavirus-lockdown-modi/
United States: The virus is colour blind, humans are not
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-14
Anti-racism Healthcare Malik MiahIssue 1261 United States COVID-19April 14, 2020The Coronavirus is colour blind. It strikes whites, Blacks, Latinos, indigenous people, Asians and rich, poor. So, why the hig…
greenleft.org.au/content/united-states-virus-colour-blind-humans-are-not
Russia yet to reach coronavirus peak
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-14
Russia has not yet reached the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.Speaking via video conference at the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, Putin said extraordinary measures should be taken to stem the spread of the novel virus, expressing hope that Russian scientists will be able to create a vaccine soon."Russia is very actively working on medicines, special means to fight the pandemic, and vaccines. Indeed, the work is going well. I hope that we will be able to share the results with you in the near future," he said.On the economic fallout of the virus, he said members of the…
yenisafak.com/en/world/russia-yet-to-reach-coronavirus-peak-3516897
Arab League Secretary Concerned Over Israel's Annexation Plans
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-13
Secretary of the Arab States' League, Mr. Ahmad Abuelgheit, expressed his concern, on Monday, over what he described as Israeli schemes to annex more Palestinian lands to Israeli boundaries, for the purpose of illegal settlement construction. The high-ranking Arab official sent out letters to a number of key international players, …
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Israeli Settlers Flood Palestinian Crops with Waste Water in Hebron
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-13
Several armed Israeli colonial settlers reportedly caused flooding of Palestinian-owned grape farms, on Monday, in north of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Local Palestinian media activist, Mohammad Awwad, told media outlets that for the second time in a week, several armed settlers from the nearby illegal colonial settlement …
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Including Two Infants, Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians In Silwan
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-13
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, the town of Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades at protesters, and several surrounding homes, wounding many Palestinians, including two infants. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) said many army …
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Second Attack Sunday: "Israeli Colonists Uproot 350 Olive Saplings Near Bethlehem"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-13
Many fanatic illegal Israeli colonists uprooted, Sunday, more than 350 olive saplings in the Sha'af area of the al-Khader Palestinian town, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Hasan Breijiyya, the head of the Wall and Colonization Resistance Commission in Bethlehem, said the Israeli assailants came from Sidi Boaz …
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Sick Palestinian Worker Abandoned outside Settlement near Salfit
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-13
A Palestinian worker showing coronavirus symptoms was abandoned, on Sunday by Israeli settlers, outside the illegal Burkan settlement, near the town of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Abdullah Kmail, the Governor of Salfit, said the worker, who had remained at his workplace in Israel …
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Soldiers Shoot A Palestinian Near Qalqilia
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-13
Israeli soldiers shot, on Sunday evening, a young Palestinian man, north of Qalqilia, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers shot a young man, 25 years of age, while walking on Palestinian lands near the illegal Annexation Wall. They added that the young …
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Including An Elected legislator, Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seven Palestinians In West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-13
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, seven Palestinians, including an elected legislator and former political prisoner, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, including the occupied capital, Jerusalem. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers invaded and ransacked the home of legislator …
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Sanders joins Biden livestream to give full-throated ENDORSEMENT
rt.com | 2020-04-13
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made a surprising appearance on former Vice President joe Biden's livestream to give the rival for the Democrat presidential nomination an enthusiastic endorsement against President Donald Trump. | Denouncing Trump as a "racist, sexist, homophobe" who "lies all the time," Sanders announced he was now supporting Biden's presidential bid. The self-described democratic socialist had suspended his campaign last week, saying he would stay on the ballot to influence party policy at the convention
A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
Call it a 'quarantine', a 'shelter-in-place', a 'lockdown' or a 'curfew', we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived in virtual 'lockdown'. My father's 'quarantine' was experienced much earlier, as did his father's 'shelter-in-place' before him. They both died and were buried…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/13/a-palestinian-guide-to-surviving-a-quarantine/
A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
Call it a 'quarantine', a 'shelter-in-place', a 'lockdown' or a 'curfew', we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived in virtual 'lockdown'. My father's 'quarantine' was experienced much earlier, as did his father's 'shelter-in-place' before him. They both died and were buried…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/13/a-palestinian-guide-to-surviving-a-quarantine/
'Say no to hate speech and xenophobia', urges Guterres, marking 26 years since genocide in Rwanda
news.un.org | 2020-04-13
Remembering the more than one million people who over the course of just 100 days, were systematically killed in Rwanda, 26 years ago, the UN chief underscored on Tuesday that "we must never again let such an atrocity occur".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1061242
Congressman John Lewis shares message of support for SPLC's work
splcenter.org | 2020-04-13
Congressman John Lewis has been a tireless champion for equal rights and justice for more than six decades.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/14/congressman-john-lewis-shares-message-support-splcs-work
US: African-Americans Are More Vulnerable to COVID-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-13
The U.S.' African-American population is more vulnerable to COVID-19, according to social and demographic studies on the virus. | RELATED: | New York City Tops US With Over 100,000 Coronavirus Cases | The reason for this exposure of the African-American population is not its genetics or physical conditions, but the systemic discrimination it suffers. Many of the non-white citizens of the United States are lacking health insurance, so they may also have underlying health problems tha…
telesurenglish.net/news/us-african-descendants-are-more-vulnerable-to-covid19-20200413-0005.html
Fascist admirers and collaborators: New book exposes Hitler's American friends
Tony Pecinovsky | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-13
An emboldened right-wing, with an enabler in the White House, has reemerged since the 2016 elections. Its most reactionary elements are not shy about openly associating with hate groups–white supremacist, anti-immigrant, Holocaust deniers–which, of course, is cause for alarm. With this in mind, Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the …
peoplesworld.org/article/fascist-admirers-and-collaborators-new-book-exposes-hitlers-american-friends/
Brave New Normal
C. J. Hopkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-13
So the War on Populism is finally over. Go ahead, take a wild guess who won. I'll give you a hint. It wasn't the Russians, or the white supremacists, or the gilets jaunes, or Jeremy Corbyn's Nazi Death Cult, or the misogynist Bernie Bros, or the MAGA-hat terrorists, or any of the other real or …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/brave-new-normal/
Israeli Troops Open Fire on Palestinian Farmers in Southern Gaza
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-12
Israeli troops opened fire, early on Sunday morning, on a number of Palestinian farmers in the southern besieged Gaza Strip. Local Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israeli troops, stationed on watch towers, near the border fence with Khuza'a village, southeast of the coastal territory, opened fire with their …
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Israeli Troops Abduct 3 Palestinians in the West Bank, Spit on Walls and Floors
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-12
Israeli troops abducted, on Sunday, a number of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, local media outlets reported. According to Wafa News Agency, among those arrested is a Palestinian child in the Beit Ummar village, north of the West Bank city of Hebron. Wafa quoted media activist, Mohamad Awwad, as …
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Israeli Colonists Cut 50 Olive Saplings near Bethlehem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-12
Illegal Israeli settlers cut 50 olive saplings belonging to Palestinians, on Sunday, in the town of al-Khader, near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to a local source. Head of the Colonization Resistance Commission in Bethlehem, Hasan Breijieh, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that settlers from the nearby …
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A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine: On Faith, Humor and "Dutch Candy"
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-12
Call it a 'quarantine', a 'shelter-in-place', a 'lockdown' or a 'curfew', we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived in virtual 'lockdown'. My father's 'quarantine' was experienced much earlier, as did his father's 'shelter-in-place' before him. They both died and were buried …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/a-palestinian-guide-to-surviving-a-quarantine-on-faith-humor-and-dutch-candy/
2019 Year in Hate and Extremism Report Release
splcenter.org | 2020-04-12
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2019 Year in Hate and Extremism Report Release
splcenter.org | 2020-04-12
splcenter.org/news/2020/03/18/2019-year-hate-and-extremism-report-release
SPLC condemns attack on Alabama synagogue
splcenter.org | 2020-04-11
The Southern Poverty Law Center condemns the antisemitic attacks that took place during Passover at the Etz Chayim Synagogue in Huntsville, Alabama.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/10/splc-condemns-attack-alabama-synagogue
Faith, Humor and Dutch Candy: A Palestinian Guide to Surviving Quarantine
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-10
The coronavirus quarantine is no radical departure for many Palestinians, who have learned to live in a state of virtual 'lockdown' since the late 1940s.
mintpressnews.com/palestinian-guide-surviving-coronavirus-lockdown/266502/
Get-out-the-vote effort goes digital for COVID-19 pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-04-10
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Alexis Carr was able to knock on doors in Montgomery, Alabama, register people to vote, instruct them on voting rights and encourage them to cast their ballots on Election Day.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/11/get-out-vote-effort-goes-digital-covid-19-pandemic
Weekend Read: Get-out-the-vote effort goes digital for COVID-19 pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-04-10
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Alexis Carr was able to knock on doors in Montgomery, Alabama, register people to vote, instruct them on voting rights and encourage them to cast their ballots on Election Day.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/11/weekend-read-get-out-vote-effort-goes-digital-covid-19-pandemic
Get-out-the-vote effort goes digital for COVID-19 pandemic
splcenter.org | 2020-04-10
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Alexis Carr was able to knock on doors in Montgomery, Alabama, register people to vote, instruct them on voting rights and encourage them to cast their ballots on Election Day.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/11/get-out-vote-effort-goes-digital-covid-19-pandemic
COVID-19: The Zionist Underpinnings of Israel's Violent Crackdown on Haredi Jews
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-09
In a conversation I had with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro for an upcoming episode of the Miko Peled Podcast, Rabbi Shapiro referred to Jewish Zionists as "idol worshipers." | "They did not get these values, of loving their guns and stealing Palestinian land, from Judaism," he said. He explained that Jewish people throughout history have kept to themselves, avoided violence and war, and, in fact, are prohibited by heavenly decree from sovereignty over the Holy Land. "Establishing sovereignty in the Holy Land, from which we were expelled by the Almighty…
mintpressnews.com/coronavirus-zionist-underpinnings-israel-crackdown-haredi-jews/266486/
"Exposing U.S. Racism in a Stark New Way": COVID-19 Kills Disproportionate Number of Black Americans
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-09
We speak with family physician and epidemiologist Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones about how the coronavirus is taking a devastating toll on black Americans, who are disproportionately dying from the virus across the country as a result of entrenched racial inequality. Black Americans are more likely to have chronic health problems and less likely to have insurance. They also make up significant numbers of frontline workers that are still going to work amid the pandemic. Jones is the former president of the American Public Health Association. Her recent piece for Newsweek magazine is headlined "Coronavirus Disease Discri…
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/9/camara_phy…
Journalist on Wisconsin Election: Republicans Are Letting People Die in Order to Hang On to Power
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-08
Lines stretching city blocks, hours-long waits and polling officials in hazmat suits. That's the scene voters in Wisconsin encountered as they braved the polls Tuesday amid the coronavirus pandemic. Despite growing outcry about the risks to public health and safety that in-person voting would pose, on Monday the state Supreme Court blocked Democratic Governor Tony Evers's ruling to delay the election until June. At least 92 people in Wisconsin have died from exposure to COVID-19. In Milwaukee
Nativist Hate Groups Want to Keep People in ICE Detention Despite COVID-19 Threat
splcenter.org | 2020-04-08
Anti-immigrant think tanks are pushing for the U.S. to detain immigrants and asylum seekers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, even as prisoners stage hunger strikes and other protests in response to what they describe as deteriorating health conditions in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/09/nativist-hate-groups-want-keep-people-ice-detention-despite-covid-19-threat
Why is Alliance Defending Freedom a Hate Group?
splcenter.org | 2020-04-08
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) first listed Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) as an anti-LGBTQ hate group in 2016.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/10/why-alliance-defending-freedom-hate-group
Why is Alliance Defending Freedom a Hate Group?
splcenter.org | 2020-04-08
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) first listed Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) as an anti-LGBTQ hate group in 2016.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/10/why-alliance-defending-freedom-hate-group
Facebook's Strategy for Taking Down Hate Groups is Spotty and Ineffective
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-04-07
Facebook continues to provide a safe haven for hate groups and extremists despite the company's attempts to "stop the most egregious and dangerous groups from using its tools." Hatewatch staff previously reported several extremist groups and pages currently active on the platform directly to Facebook in 2018.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/07/facebooks-strategy-taking-down-hate-groups-spotty-and-ineffective
Cárcel con Cualquier Otro Nombre: Informe Sobre los Centros de Detención del Sur de Florida
splcenter.org | 2020-04-03
splcenter.org/20200413/carcel-con-cualquier-otro-nombre-informe-sobre-los-centros-de-detencion-del-sur-de-florida