Venezuela
Venezuela Blasts Trump After Central Bank Assets Quietly Transferred to Guaido’s Fed Account Sputnik
NYT Blames Maduro for Healthcare Horror, Downplays US Role FAIR
China
Trump’s Anti-Chinese Racist Campaign Strategy Mobilizes Right-Wing Extremists Common Dreams
MSM China Hysteria Gets Way Crazier And Dumber Caitlin Johnstone
The New Anti-China Campaign Is Built On Lies Moon of Alabama
The intensity of the current anti-China campaign reminds one of the run up to the war on Iraq. The people who now claim that ‘China lied, people died’ are the very same who ran the Iraq WMD campaign. But all the reports claiming Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were just fantasy. The reports of Chinese culpability are similar nonsense.
How Ecuador Descended Into Corona Chaos Counterpunch
Class war
United Airlines CEO Hints At Layoffs After Company Agrees To Billions In Bailout Funds Labor411
Prisons
What Happens When More Than 300,000 Prisoners Are Locked Down? Marshall Project
Usual Cruelty it’s simpler than it looksUserFriendly
Capitalist crisis
A new Senate plan would guarantee paychecks for workers who are furloughed or laid off Vox
The euro’s corona crisis Michael Roberts
Neiman Marcus to file for bankruptcy as soon as this week Reuters
Ford Closes Some Plants “Indefinitely”
Oil plunges 21% to a 2-decade low Business Insider
The price of oil dropped as low as just $14.30 per barrel on Monday to reach its lowest level in 21-years
Big Agribusiness
We Need to Rethink Our Food System to Prevent the Next Pandemic Time
Another disaster is ready to catch the US unprepared: Drought Ars Technica
Covid-19 coronavirus
Racial toll of virus grows even starker as more data emerges AP
No, You Did Not Get COVID-19 in the Fall of 2019 Slate
Was That Cold I Had in November or December Coronavirus? Daily Beast
Whistleblower nurse who spoke out about Littleton nursing home dies of COVID-19 WCVB
COVID-19: How Big Pharma and Big Philanthropy Consume the World Counterpunch
Poverty, pollution and neglect: How the Bronx became a coronavirus ‘formula for disaster’ ABC News
While the borough of Queens leads the overall death toll in New York City with over 1,600 killed by the virus so far, the Bronx — which has a smaller population and lower case total — is seeing dramatically more deaths per case, with 1,185 killed as of April 10, according to New York City Health Department data. The Bronx, home to more than 60% of New York City’s very low-income residents, also leads in hospitalizations.
A New York City Hospital Loses a Beloved Surgeon Medium
Lenin’s 150th
Russia: activists launch flash mob dedicated to Lenin’s 150th birthday
Donetsk: ‘Red Carnation for Lenin’ action on April 22
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