Big Oil is using the coronavirus pandemic to push through the Keystone XL pipeline Guardian
The oil industry saw its opening and moved with breathtaking speed to take advantage of this moment
Venezuela
Ex UN anti-narcotics chief & mob expert says US Treasury running ‘mafia racket’ against Venezuela Grayzone
Class war
Latina Workers in Chicago & Poultry Workers in Virginia Strike Over COVID-19 Payday Report
Trump Sent Them to the Coronavirus Front Line but Denied Them Health Care Daily Beast
Almost 20,000 Guardsmen are on orders that keep them ineligible for the Pentagon’s TRICARE system—right as mass unemployment wipes away health care for millions.
High case count among black residents in Mecklenburg a ‘major problem,’ some leaders say Charlotte Observer
Amazon’s Plan To Smear And Silence A Fired Worker Failed: “This Country Needs To Wake Up” Gothamist
Inside the luxurious underground bunkers where the rich bug out NY Post
Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index: Rich sheltered, poor shafted amid virus
Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus Is a Luxury NYTimes
Covid-19 coronavirus
Northwell memo calls for rationing ventilators to ‘patients most likely to benefit’ Politico
The Science Says #MaskUp – A Look At Two New Virus Studies
Capitalist crisis
Coronavirus Hasn’t Stopped Jared Kushner’s Real Estate Empire from Hounding Tenants with Debt Collection, Eviction Lawsuits The Intercept
Services Sector Falls off Cliff: First Data Points from the Eurozone where Lockdowns Started Earlier Wolf Street
The Unemployment Rate Is Probably Around 13 Percent NYTimes
“There’s Going to Be Scandal Involved in This Bailout. It Is Unquestionable’ Common Dreams
Iran
One year after launch, EU countries and Iran close first deal under INSTEX payment mechanism Peoples Dispatch
The deal was for the supply of medical equipment to Iran. INSTEX was devised in 2018 by Germany, France and the UK as a special purpose vehicle to bypass the unilateral sanctions imposed by the US
Joe Biden says he ‘doesn’t have enough information’ on Iran to have a view. How odd – he negotiated the nuclear deal Independent. Robert Fisk.
Sanctions are crippling Iran’s fight against coronavirus The Guardian. Pirouz Hanachi, mayor of Tehran.
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