2020-04-26: Social Media Postees

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Palestinians Hunker Down for Ramadan, Facing a Virus that doesn't Discriminate but an Occupier that does
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-26
As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations' lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them. While 15,000 Israelis have tested positive for Covid-19 so far, the numbers infected in the occupied territories are …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/palestinians-hunker-down-for-ramadan-facing-a-virus-that-doesnt-discriminate-but-an-occupier-that-does/

COVID-19 from the front lines
Leslie D. Gregory | zcomm.org | 2020-04-26
Some of us in the frontlines of health care have been trying to convince CDC to declare racism as a threat to public health. We think our proofs are strong…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/covid-19-from-the-front-lines/

Suffering in Kashmir and Palestine
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-26
While the world is pre-occupied with coronavirus and its impact on lives and the international economy, one must not forget that suffering due to oppression knows no season and has no vaccine, but is not without a cure. Sadly, for …
globalresearch.ca/suffering-kashmir-palestine/5710799

Trump Regime Aims to Suppress Iranian Truth-Telling
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-26
US hostility toward Iran is all about its sovereign independence

Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump's Fascist Momentum
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-04-26
"Get rid of the malignancy in the White House"
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/23/18832600.php

Edging Closer to Neo-Fascist Authoritarianism
Juan Gonzalez | zcomm.org | 2020-04-26
If hundreds of African Americans or Latinos showed up in cities around the country brandishing automatic weapons, what would be the response of the country to this? Why is this being almost accepted and normalized now as a method of protest?
zcomm.org/znetarticle/edging-closer-to-neo-fascist-authoritarianism/

Demonstrators swarm Tel Aviv to decry Netanyahu-Gantz 'unity deal' as affront to justice system (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Hundreds turned out in Tel Aviv to voice their outrage at a coalition deal agreed on by Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz, saying it might let the embattled prime minister, who faces a corruption trial, off the hook. | Around 2,000 protesters filled Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on Saturday evening in the second such mass action against the 'unity government' in a week. Envisioned by the deal between Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party and Gantz's centrist-liberal Blue and White that the two struck on Monday, the so-called unity government is set to bring an end to a year-long political impasse, brought o…
rt.com/news/486903-israel-protest-coronavirus-netanyuah-gantz/

Israel: Thousands Demonstrate Against Netanyahu-Gantz Coalition
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-25
Several thousand Israelis demonstrated Saturday against a unity government deal reached last week between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival parliament speaker Benny Gantz. | RELATED: | Netanyahu and Gantz Reach Deal, End Political Deadlock | The protesters say the unity agreement gives Netanyahu influence over the appointment of judges and legal officials, "cr…
telesurenglish.net/news/Israel-Thousands-Demonstrate-Against-Netanyahu-Gantz-Coalition-20200425-0007.html

Soldiers Seriously Injure A Palestinian Worker, Abduct One, Near Jenin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-25
Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man, abducted another and caused several others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, after the army chased Palestinian workers near Jenin, in northern West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers chased the Palestinian workers near the illegal …
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Arab Countries' Ambassadors to the UN Reject Israeli Annexation Plans
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-25
Council of Arab Countries' Ambassadors to the United Nations (UN) in New York City, rejected Israel's announced annexation plans for the occupied West Bank. The council held a meeting via video conference to discuss the latest developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly the illegal annexation plans, recently announced by …
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Israeli Troops Open Fire on Palestinian Farmers in Southern Gaza
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-25
Israeli troops opened heavy fire, earlier Saturday, towards Palestinian farmers east of Khan Younis city, south of the Gaza Strip. Local media reports said that Israeli soldiers, stationed on the Israeli side of the border fence between Gaza and Israel, fired tear-gas canisters and some live ammunition, towards local farmers, …
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Italy Remembers the Day of Liberation From Nazi Occupation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-25
Italy celebrates today the 75th anniversary of the liberation of fascism in 1945 amid a pandemic that has left 25,969 dead in the country until Saturday morning. | RELATED: | Italy: COVID-19 Plunged One Million People Into Poverty | On April 25 Italians celebrate their Liberation Day, a national holiday that used to be enjoyed with concerts, events, and exhibitions to remember how popular resistance forces controlled the northern cities and drive out Nazi troops on their withdrawal to…
telesurenglish.net/news/Italy-Remembers-the-Day-of-Liberation-From-Nazi-Occupation-20200425-0002.html

Senator hands outrage culture a win, apologizes for wearing Confederate flag face mask after defending it only a day earlier
rt.com | 2020-04-25
A Michigan state senator gave in to triggered critics by apologizing for wearing a mask resembling the Confederate flag. A day earlier he ardently defended it, saying history should be taught so as not to repeat itself. | Republican Dale Zorn was photographed wearing the mask while in the Michigan state chamber on Friday to vote on bills seeking to limit the emergency powers of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. | This is Dale Zorn. He is an elected member of the Michigan Senate. He wore a Confederate Flag mask on the floor of the Michigan Senate. Then he tried to tell us he didn't…
rt.com/usa/486901-michigan-senator-confederate-mask/

Example of Russia-US cooperation: Putin & Trump release rare JOINT statement on Elbe Day 75th anniversary
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump have released a rare joint statement, marking the 75th anniversary of the historic meeting between Soviet and American troops on the Elbe River. | The meeting that occurred on April 25, 1945 "heralded the decisive defeat of the Nazi regime," which was ultimately destroyed a couple weeks after. But most importantly, it clearly showed how the two nations can cooperate, the statement reads. | The 'Spirit of the Elbe' is an example of how our countries can put aside differences, build trust, and cooperate in pursuit of a greater cause. | On Elbe…
rt.com/news/486899-putin-trump-elbe-day/

#KIMJONGUNDEAD is a rumor, but political jokes at North Korean leader's expense are already here
rt.com | 2020-04-25
Rumors of North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un's declining health have inspired a bevy of mocking and agenda-driven tweets from both the left and right. | The hashtag #KIMJONGUNDEAD began trending on Twitter shortly after Reuters reported that China had dispatched a team of medical experts to the country to advise on his well-being. Although next to nothing is known for sure, social media went into a frenzy with memes and posts that had less to do with North Korea and more to do with US politics. | 'Dilbert' creator and political author Scott Adams used the news to take a shot at former Vice President Joe…
rt.com/usa/486889-kim-jong-un-undead-twitter/

Brazil's Attorney General Demands Inquiry Against Bolsonaro
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-25
Brazil's Attorney General Augusto Aras requested Saturday for the Supreme Federal Court (STF) to open an investigation against the nation's president, Jair Bolsonaro, following accusations presented by former Super-Minister of Justice Sergio Moro. | RELATED: | Brazil Justice Minister Quits in Bolsonaro's Worst Crisis Yet | Moro, the former judge who took former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to jail, accused Bolsonaro on Friday of political interference in the Federal Police…
telesurenglish.net/news/Fiscal-General-of-Brazil-Demands-Investigation-Against-Bolsonaro-20200425-0011.html

Israeli Troops Shoot, Wound Palestinian Man in Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-24
Israeli Troops shot and wounded on Friday a Palestinian young man during protests in the Kufur Qaddoum village in the northern occupied West Bank. Organizers of the protest, which is staged on weekly basis, said that the Israeli troops attacked tens of Palestinian protesters near the Apartheid Wall in the …
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A Machiavellian Fiasco: How 'Centrist' Gantz Resurrected Netanyahu, Israel's Right
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-24
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political compromises, whereby…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/24/a-machiavellian-fiasco-how-centrist-gantz-resurrected-netanyahu-israels-right/

How Ya Gonna Pay For It? Stop Giving Money to Israel
David Swanson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-24
Did you know that the U.S. government has done something odd with your tax dollars? The ones you get so furious and indignant about when they're used to feed anybody who's hungry? It has given over 280 billion of those dollars to the government of Israel (not counting classified hush-hush super-secret amounts). Source. Israel is …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/how-ya-gonna-pay-for-it-stop-giving-money-to-israel/

Israeli Forces Detain 14 Palestinians, including Former Prisoner
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-24
Israeli occupation forces invaded West Bank towns, early Thursday morning, and detained 14 Palestinians, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. In the northern occupied West Bank, soldiers stormed Tulkarem and detained a former prisoner. Also in the northern West Bank district of Jenin, Israeli troops abducted 2 Palestinian men from …
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Israeli Forces Storm East Jerusalem Town, Palestinian Youths Resist
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-24
Confrontations broke out on Thursday morning, between Israeli forces and Palestinian young men in Kafr Aqab town in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local source.. Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center that soldiers were cutting down street signs, when the youth resisted the invasion, the soldiers fired rubber-coated steel …
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"We Don't Have the Capacity to Treat": Palestinian-Canadian Doctor Says Israel Must Lift Gaza Siege
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-24
As fears continue to grow about what a rampant outbreak of the coronavirus might do to the occupied Palestinian territory, already crippled by years of Israeli sanctions, we get an update from Dr. Tarek Loubani, Palestinian-Canadian doctor and emergency physician who volunteers in the Gaza Strip and returned from a trip there last month. "Testing is severely limited," he says. "There have been fewer tests in Gaza so far throughout the entire pandemic than there were in South Korea yesterday."
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/24/tarek_lou…

Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-04-24
Once Again, Trump Shreds US Immigration Law…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-immigration-coronavirus-fascism/

How YOU can dump Trump: Let us count the ways
Harvey "Sluggo" Wasserman | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-24
Grassroots action's immense recent upset victory in Wisconsin, where voters kicked out a sitting conservative Supreme Court judge and elected a progressive, shows we can overcome even a rigged election. In November, you must do it again. When Trump tries to steal or cancel the election, our informed non-violence must rise to protect and win …
peoplesworld.org/article/how-you-can-dump-trump-let-us-count-the-ways/

Blame Game in Full Throttle: Why WHO's Listing of Israel as 'European' Raises No Red Flags
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-26
Donald Trump's criticism of the WHO has turned all eyes on the entity's alleged political biases. However, it appears the media spread it on thick when they lambasted the WHO for including Israel in the list of European nations in its COVID-19 situation reports. WHO and Israeli researchers have explained why and what's behind the controversy.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202004261079095387-blame-game-in-full-throttle-why-whos-listing-of-israel-as-european-raises-no-red-flags/

Russian Paratroopers Make Historic Airdrop From Mind-Boggling 10,000 Metre Altitude – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-26
This marks the first time paratroopers have ever jumped from this height. The airdrop was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 90th anniversary of the Russian Airborne Forces.
sputniknews.com/russia/202004261079098079-russian-paratroopers-make-historic-airdrop-from-mind-boggling-10000-km-altitude—video/

Russia's Love of Trump, But Why? Trump is Burying the United States, Just Like Nikita Promised
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-04-26
Over the past year, since Russiagate has blown over for the most part, Sputnik News and Russia Today, the two major government controlled media operations (controlled by the same person) have embarrassingly fawned over Trump. | More than that, their slant has been decidedly racist, anti-Semitic (expressing virulent hatred for America's liberal Jewish majority), anti-Hispaic/African American/Islamic America and anti-intellectual. | They have also been anti-science but their real bias has been an ongoing smear campaign against any democratic politician or anyone that isn't a pure Deep State sludge eater. | Above al…
thealtworld.com/gordon_duff/russias-love…

Brazil Justice Minister Quits in Bolsonaro's Worst Crisis Yet
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-24
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro suffered the heaviest blow to his presidency so far as his well-known justice minister quit Friday and accused him of potential criminal meddling in law enforcement, adding to the turmoil of a government struggling to confront a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak. | RELATED: | Brazil: Supreme Court Judges Sergio Moro's Lack of Impartiality | Former judge Sergio Moro, who gained notoriety in the anti-corruption investigation, Lava Jato, resigned a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Main-Minister-Quits-in-Bolsonaros-Worst-Crisis-yet—20200424-0013.html

Aren't We All in This Together? College Students Told Hell No
Greg Moses | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-24
In a stormy week of denunciation and discrimination, the Trump administration sent a blaring announcement to America's college students: you shall not be in this together. Everything now depends upon college students resolving to believe different. Wedges of denunciation and discrimination were hammered in this week, beginning Monday morning with a Huffington Post headline that…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/24/arent-we-all-in-this-together-college-students-told-hell-no/

Trump's Immigration Order Was Drafted by Officials With Ties to Hate Groups, According to Report
Michael Edison Hayden and Eddie Bejarano | splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
Two officials with ties to anti-immigrant hate groups helped write President Trump's executive order blocking the issuance of new green cards, according to a report.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/24/trumps-immigration-order-was-drafted-officials-ties-hate-groups-according-report

Remembering the deadly Poway shooting one year later
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/remembering-deadly-poway-shooting-one-year-later

Florida voting rights trial to be argued online
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
When the Southern Poverty Law Center goes to trial next week over a law undercutting the biggest expansion of suffrage since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the judge will not be on the bench, but in a remote location, staring at his computer screen.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/25/florida-voting-rights-trial-be-argued-online

Fraihat v. ICE Community Resources
splcenter.org | 2020-04-24
On April 20, 2020, a federal district court granted a nationwide preliminary injunction requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to take a number of important steps to protect medically vulnerable people in its custody from COVID-19.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/24/fraihat-v-ice-resources-0

A Machiavellian Fiasco: How a So-Called 'Centrist' Resurrected Israel's Far Right
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-23
So-called centrist Benny Gantz has seemingly done everything in his power to assure Israel's left and center are crippled for years to come and that Netanyahu will continue his decades-long reign unopposed.
mintpressnews.com/how-centrist-benny-gantz-resurrected-israel-far-right/266891/

Common coronavirus enemy, forges some Palestine-Israel cooperation, but West Bank annexation looms
news.un.org | 2020-04-23
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating opportunities for cooperation that Israelis and Palestinians must embrace to sustain Middle East peace efforts and bring an end to decades of conflict, the United Nations' top envoy in the region said on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062452

Arab States' League Decries Israeli Confiscation of Ibrahimi Mosque Lands
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-23
League of the Arab States denounced on Thursday, the latest Israeli authorities' decision to confiscate the vicinity of Palestinian-Muslim 'Al-Ibrahimi' or Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. In a statement, issued by the league, 22 Arab states considered the latest confiscation a part of Israel's …
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A Machiavellian Fiasco: How 'Centrist' Gantz Resurrected Netanyahu, Israel's Right
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-23
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political compromises, whereby …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/a-machiavellian-fiasco-how-centrist-gantz-resurrected-netanyahu-israels-right/

Israeli Soldiers Dismantle, Seize Palestinian Mobile Home near Jericho
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-23
Israeli soldiers, on Thursday, dismantled a mobile home belonging to a Palestinian family in al-Dyouk al-Tahta village, west of the city of Jericho, and seized it, according to witnesses. Witnesses told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the area, and took apart the mobile home and seized it, under …
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Israeli Military Vehicles Infiltrate Gaza Strip, Raze Palestinian Land
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-23
A number of Israeli occupation military vehicles penetrated, on Thursday morning, the Palestinian agricultural lands along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, local sources reported. Local sources and residents told Quds Press, that Israeli military vehicles infiltrated dozens of meters into the agricultural lands of citizens east of …
imemc.org/article/israeli-military-vehicles-infiltrate-gaza-strip-raze-palestinian-land/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-military-vehicles-infiltrate-gaza-strip-raze-palestinian-land

Chicago: Celebration of International Workers Day planned
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-23
Chicago, IL

The Social Contract Publishes its Last Tract
Caleb Kieffer | splcenter.org | 2020-04-23
The Social Contract, a long-running quarterly journal founded by John Tanton, ran its final issue in Fall 2019.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/23/social-contract-publishes-its-last-tract

Oath Keepers Chaplain Quits Over Leader's COVID Response
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-04-23
Chuck Baldwin, who has served as the national chaplain of the antigovernment Oath Keepers since 2013, announced his resignation early Tuesday morning on Facebook.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/04/23/oath-keepers-chaplain-quits-over-leaders-covid-response

Asian community stands up to escalating COVID-19 racist violence
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-22
Anti-racism Peter BoyleIssue 1262 Australia COVID-19 anti-Asian racism Jenny LeongApril 22, 2020Two young Asian women were walking in Eli…
greenleft.org.au/content/asian-community-stands-escalating-covid-19-racist-violence

SPLC Action makes recommendations to Congress to address COVID-19 needs in the Deep South
splcenter.org | 2020-04-22
The SPLC Action Fund sent a detailed letter to members of Congress on April 22, 2020, highlighting the need for federal action that specifically addresses the needs of people in South.
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/22/splc-action-makes-recommendations-congress-address-covid-19-needs-deep-south

First person to die in Alabama's prisons with COVID-19 spent more than four decades behind bars
splcenter.org | 2020-04-22
splcenter.org/news/2020/04/22/first-person-die-alabamas-prisons-covid-19-spent-more-four-decades-behind-bars

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