(2020-04-17). German health minister says coronavirus outbreak is now 'manageable again'. rt.com 
The coronavirus outbreak in Germany has become manageable again, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday. The number of patients who have made a recovery has been higher than the number of new infections every day this week, the minister noted. | "The outbreak has — as of today — become controllable and manageable again," Spahn told reporters, adding that the health care system had "at no time been overwhelmed so far." | Earlier, Spahn said a coronavirus contact tracing app will be ready for Germans to download and use on their smartphones in three to four weeks. Berlin has been more cautious than…
(2020-04-17). 9/11 Truth: Under Lockdown for Nearly Two Decades. dissidentvoice.org The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. — H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women, 1918 As the global pandemic grips world attention, completely unnoticed by mainstream media was the release of a final …
(2020-04-17). The Big Lie: Today's Mainstream Corporate Media. globalresearch.ca The liberal media — New York Times and Washington Post, CNN and MSNBC, The Daily Beast, Alternet, Mother Jones, Daily Kos and others—has in
(2020-04-17). Covid confessions — Dublin edition. thecanary.co Further coronavirus (Covid-19) Firstly, they give their opinions on how they feel being cooped up inside and how they feel young people have been portrayed in the mainstream media. | Finally,…
(2020-04-16). Trump Plans to Adjourn Congress to Push Through Political Appointments. truthout.org During a press event at the White House on Wednesday, President Donald Trump complained that Democrats were blocking many of his political appointments from consideration, in spite of the fact that hundreds of positions are vacant Some individuals he's tried to appoint have also been held up in Republican-controlled…
(2020-04-16). COVID-19 storm strengthens across Europe, controlling transmission everywhere, essential: Tedros. news.un.org The storm clouds of COVID-19 still hang heavily over Europe, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) expert said on Thursday, with reported cases in the last 10 days alone, doubling to nearly 1 million. The continent now accounts for 10 per cent of the global total.
(2020-04-16). Pandemic Doesn't Stop Corporate Media From Crusading Against Universal Healthcare. commondreams.org The US's employer-based healthcare system is exceptionally vulnerable and incapable of addressing a pandemic, because enforcing the economic shutdown required by quarantine causes massive spikes in unemployment, which then lead to further drops in healthcare coverage, and further compound the problem in a vicious circle. (Photo: Joe Newman via Public Citizen/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-04-15). Corporate Media Cover for US Mob Threats Against Venezuela. fair.org 
The Trump administration unveiled on March 31 a "democratic transition" plan to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from office, in favor of a "council of state" composed of both opposition and ruling party loyalists. | The plan was, however, less an offer to negotiate than a diktat, with the US State Department ( Despite the obvious mafioso over…
(2020-04-15). 21 million Chinese dead due to COVID-19 story is FAKE NEWS. truepublica.org.uk Did new US intelligence data reveal that 21 million people died in China from December 2019 to March 2020 due to the novel coronavirus? No, that's not true: An online article being shared uses a statistic about a drop in cellphone users to make a faulty supposition that this figure reflects COVID-19 deaths in China. …
(2020-04-13). As Nicaragua confronts Covid, its US-backed opposition exploits the pandemic to create chaos. thegrayzone.com Nicaragua's right-wing opposition is waging an information warfare campaign to undermine the elected Sandinista government, spreading fake news on coronavirus,…
(2020-04-13). During this coronavirus pandemic, 'fake news' is putting lives at risk: UNESCO. news.un.org Unreliable and false information is spreading around the world to such an extent, that some commentators are now referring to the new avalanche of misinformation that's accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic as a 'disinfodemic'.
(2020-04-09). Colonialism & coronavirus: 800,000 Haitians may die of COVID-19. thegrayzone.com Gutted by US-allied, neoliberal governments which have controlled the country since 2004, Haiti's healthcare sector braces for a potential catastrophe….
(2020-02-21). Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity. fair.org 
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.