(2020-04-23). News publishers and COVID-19 coverage. truepublica.org.uk By TruePublica: As COVID-19 immerses Britain in crisis after crisis, the public go in search of facts not salacious celebrity stories and fake news peddled by right-wing rags. The Sun and Daily Mail lose ground as The Guardian and Financial Times reach new records. Reading Press Gazette today provides a tiny ray of light in …
(2020-04-23). Mass deaths in New York nursing homes. wsws.org Combined with a lack of testing three months into the pandemic, state policies have created conditions for an uncontrollable spread of the virus and horrific mass deaths among the elderly, and significant fatalities among the staff.
(2020-04-23). Stop the Pandemic Profiteers. counterpunch.org Wartime profiteering has been as common in our country as war itself. Indeed, during the American Revolution assorted corrupt merchants and traders lined their pockets by controlling the supply and jacking up the prices on various goods they sold to the Continental Army and to the general public. Often though, feisty colonials struck back at
(2020-04-22). We Won't Stop COVID-19 with "Chickenpox Parties" counterpunch.org Thumbing their noses at both government directives and the coronavirus, right-wing protestors have been massing at state capitols in Michigan, Minnesota, Virginia, and Texas to demand the lifting of stay-at-home orders issued by Democratic governors. President Donald Trump has responded in a way that looks a whole lot like a call to insurrection. On April 17, Trump tweeted "LIBERATE MICHIGAN," "LIBERATE MINNESOTA," and 'LIBERATE VIRGINIA," apparently mistaking those states for Paris in 1944.
(2020-04-22). Tory 'herd immunity' propaganda campaign unearthed. truepublica.org.uk TruePublica Editor: Have we not all had enough of incompetent government yet? If not, here's another one to make your blood boil. John O'Connell, the founder at the Far Right Watch, the anti-racist group has sent out some news that he is investigating a propaganda campaign set up by the Conservatives that supports the 'herd …
(2020-04-21). MSM sneer at grave of Covid-19 victim because he criticized Ohio lockdown measures. rt.com 
A man who tragically died after contracting the coronavirus has posthumously found himself at the center of a mainstream media sneer campaign because he questioned the restrictive lockdown measures in his native Ohio. | Despite thousands of people dying from the illness across the world every day, a range of news outlets have taken it upon themselves to exhaustively report on the case of John W. McDaniel — inspiring a vicious Twitter excoriation in their wake — because he voiced his opposition to the clampdown on personal freedoms that authorities have introduced in a bid to tackle the disease. | Thi…
(2020-04-21). Techniques for Treatment of Carotid Stenosis—Reply. jamanetwork.com In Reply In response to Dr Sharma and colleagues, we used propensity score matching methods to account for baseline characteristic differences found between patients undergoing transfemoral carotid artery stenting and transcarotid artery revascularization. Although this led to a 50% exclusion of patients from the transfemoral carotid stenting cohort and a 37% exclusion of patients from the transcarotid artery revascularization cohort, these matching methods are important for controlling intrinsic biases found in observational studies. However, we provided unadjusted complete raw data outcomes in eTable 1 in the s…
(2020-04-21). Fake 'nurses' propaganda tweets distract from further government coronavirus shambles. thecanary.co Over 100 fake twitter accounts of 'nurses', offering support to the Cabinet's coronavirus (Covid-19) strategy, have apparently appeared, then suddenly disappeared. There has been speculation on Twitter as to their origin.This distraction comes at a time when details of government cock-ups regarding the outbreak appear almost daily.Fake accounts: A claim has emerged that someone, either an employee with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), or via a contracted "marketing agency", created 128 fake NHS twitter accounts. It's alleged that postings on those accounts came from one person and "4 assign…
(2020-04-20). How a Trump media dump mainstreamed Chinese lab coronavirus conspiracy theory. thegrayzone.com A conspiracy theory about Covid-19 escaping from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology is the Trump administration's Iraqi WMD. And the…
(2020-04-19). Corporate media spreads fake news claiming Nicaraguan President Ortega is dead — then he gives a fiery speech condemning US militarism. thegrayzone.com International media outlets spent weeks falsely implying Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega died of coronavirus… until he gave a televised speech…
(2020-04-17). Covid-19 Speculation Goes From Margin to Center. fair.org 
Government-funded NPR ( The fact that President Donald Trump attacked the official US state broadcasting outlet, Voice of America, as an organ of Chinese government propaganda (NPR,
(2020-04-16). Hate Groups and Racist Pundits Spew COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media Despite Companies' Pledges to Combat It. splcenter.org Hate groups and racist pundits have pushed misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic on mainstream social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube throughout the crisis, despite companies pledging to fight fake news about the virus.
(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…
(2020-04-13). 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,…
(2020-04-09). 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.
(2020-04-21). Trump Temporarily Suspends All Immigration Into The United States. iranian.com In a stunning turn of events, late on Monday, President Trump tweeted that "In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!" twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12524… Trump did not …