German health minister says coronavirus outbreak is now 'manageable again'
rt.com | 2020-04-17
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
The Big Lie: Today's Mainstream Corporate Media
Richard Gale | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-17
The liberal media
Trump Plans to Adjourn Congress to Push Through Political Appointments
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-16
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 simply because he hasn't actually nominated anyone to fill them yet. | Some individuals he's tried to appoint have also been held up in Republican-controlled…
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Plague on Broadway
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-16
Plague on Broadway What happened today? I can't even remember We walked to the river and talked About fenders
Five Came Back: Hollywood filmmakers and World War II
wsws.org | 2020-04-16
The three-part documentary focuses on five major American directors–John Ford, John Huston, William Wyler, George Stevens and Frank Capra–who enlisted with the US War Department to create propaganda films between 1941 and 1945.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/16/five…
Fox News Defends Its COVID Lies, Saying First Amendment Protects "False" Speech
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-16
Fox News has moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Washington state group accusing the network of "deceptive" coronavirus coverage by arguing that the First Amendment protects "false" and "outrageous" speech. | The network's lawyers said in a motion seeking to dismiss the lawsuit that the "First Amendment does not permit censoring this type of speech based on the theory that it is 'false' or 'outrageous.' Nor does the…
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Fox News Defends Its COVID Lies, Saying First Amendment Protects "False" Speech
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-16
Fox News has moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Washington state group accusing the network of "deceptive" coronavirus coverage by arguing that the First Amendment protects "false" and "outrageous" speech. | The network's lawyers said in a motion seeking to dismiss the lawsuit that the "First Amendment does not permit censoring this type of speech based on the theory that it is 'false' or 'outrageous.' Nor does the…
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Trump says US conducting 'very thorough' probe into Covid-19 origins, refuses to dismiss 'sources' pushing Chinese lab narrative
rt.com | 2020-04-16
US President Donald Trump hinted that a probe into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic hasn't ruled out that it may have started in a lab in China, fanning the flames of a conspiracy theory that's turning increasingly mainstream. | Asked to comment on reports stating the US government had "high confidence" the Covid-19 outbreak "emanated" from a virology lab in the city of Wuhan at Wednesday's White House briefing, the president remained somewhat tight-lipped, but said just enough to lend credence to the increasingly popular claim. | …
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Corporate Media Cover for US Mob Threats Against Venezuela
Lucas Koerner | fair.org | 2020-04-15
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 ( 3/31/20) vowing that "sanctions will remain in effect, and increase, until the Maduro regime accepts a genuine political transition." | Despite the obvious mafioso over…
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Corporate Media Cover for US Mob Threats Against Venezuela
Lucas Koerner | fair.org | 2020-04-15
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 ( 3/31/20) vowing that "sanctions will remain in effect, and increase, until the Maduro regime accepts a genuine political transition." | Despite the obvious mafioso over…
fair.org/home/corporate-media-cover-for-…
21 million Chinese dead due to COVID-19 story is FAKE NEWS
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-04-15
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. …
truepublica.org.uk/global/21-million-chinese-dead-due-to-covid-19-story-is-fake-news/
'Dangerous & harassing'? WATCH Iranian boats buzz US Navy vessels 'patrolling' Persian Gulf
rt.com | 2020-04-15
The United States Navy has accused the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps of threatening and "unsafe" actions, reporting that IRGC vessels approached American warships conducting "maritime security" operations in the Persian Gulf. | A total of 11 Iranian vessels buzzed a number of American ships on Wednesday, the US Navy said in a statement, calling the maneuvers "harassing… dangerous and provocative." The US Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, later published footage of the encounter, showing several smaller IRGC craft in close range of a US ship. | | © US Naval Forces Central Command / US 5th Fleet…
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Only good news allowed–India's independent media fights government's COVID-19 censorship
Conn Hallinan | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-15
While the coronavirus has focused much of the world on Europe and the United States lately, India promises to be the greatest victim of the disease. But other than a slick public relations campaign, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done little to confront the crisis. Indeed, a number of policy moves by …
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Australian construction workers denounce union enforcement of unsafe conditions
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-04-15
Hundreds of workers across the country have taken to social media over the past weeks to denounce the construction union for enforcing continued production in the sector, despite the health risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic. The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) has responded with censorship. Supporters of the union bureaucracy have …
truepublica.org.uk/newsbits/australian-construction-workers-denounce-union-enforcement-of-unsafe-conditions/
As Nicaragua confronts Covid, its US-backed opposition exploits the pandemic to create chaos
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-13
Nicaragua's right-wing opposition is waging an information warfare campaign to undermine the elected Sandinista government, spreading fake news on coronavirus,…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/13/regime-change…
As Nicaragua confronts Covid, its US-backed opposition exploits the pandemic to create chaos
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-13
Nicaragua's right-wing opposition is waging an information warfare campaign to undermine the elected Sandinista government, spreading fake news on coronavirus,…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/13/regime-change…
During this coronavirus pandemic, 'fake news' is putting lives at risk: UNESCO
news.un.org | 2020-04-13
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'.
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Colonialism & coronavirus: 800,000 Haitians may die of COVID-19
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-09
Gutted by US-allied, neoliberal governments which have controlled the country since 2004, Haiti's healthcare sector braces for a potential catastrophe….
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/09/colonialism-c…