'Game-changing machine': Russian military get first batch of modernized T-90M tanks (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-04-13
With better protected turret, more powerful engine and a sighting system that guarantees high precision in nighttime, the modernized T-90M tank has now made it into the Russian army. | The first batch of the new war machines, called 'Proryv' (breakthrough) has been delivered to the elite Taman Armored Division near Moscow. | The arrival to their place of basing has been filmed by the Defense Ministry's Zvezda channel and featured the sad trend of the current time, as servicemen were seen wearing protective masks over the raging and deadly Covid-19 pandemic. | "Those are game changing machines," Sergey Kisel…
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UN Ceasefire Defines War As a Non-Essential Activity
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-13
At least 70 countries have signed on to the March 23 call by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for a worldwide ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic. Like non-essential business and spectator sports, war is a luxury that the Secretary General says we must manage without for a while. After U.S. leaders have told Americans for…
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Bailout the Pension System
Ed Ott | zcomm.org | 2020-04-13
This fight needs to start now and it needs to start with the unions, the progressive elected and working class activists…
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Republicans Admit They Lose When Elections Are Fair and Free
David Daley | zcomm.org | 2020-04-13
Interview on gerrymandering and voting rights that have fired up a generation of activists fighting for free and fair elections…
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Billionaire Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta says he did 45,000 workers 'a favor' by laying them off quickly
rt.com | 2020-04-13
Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta claimed he was doing 45,000 members of staff "a favor" by laying them off quickly as the Houston Rockets mogul discussed the impact of the coronavirus crisis on his restaurant and casino empire. | Fertitta, 62, said he was "holding up pretty damn good" when discussing the affects of the Covid-19 on Fox New s at the weekend. | "But I've got 45,000 employees out there that we've had to furl…
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The Last Stimulus Ignored Climate. Activists Are Determined That Won't Happen in the Next One
Rachel M. Cohen | commondreams.org | 2020-04-12
A demonstrator holds a placard reading "time is running out" during a global youth climate action strike in Barcelona, on September 27, 2019 at the end of a global climate change week. (Photo by JOSEP LAGO/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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One World Governance and the Council on Foreign Relations."We Shall have World Government… by Conquest or Consent."
Joachim Hagopian | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-12
The fact is the Council on Foreign Relations has been controlling US foreign policy for almost a century, and chief among its most obvious agendas has been building and maintaining US Empire's global unipolar hegemony and military strength at all cost.
globalresearch.ca/one-world-governance-and-the-council-on-foreign-relations-we-shall-have-world-government-by-conquest-or-consent/5541363

The US Seeks to Set New Military Base in Syria Amid Pandemic
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-11
President Donald Trump administration on Friday deployed a military convoy in Syria to establish a new base in this Arab nation. | RELATED: | Erdogan, Merkel, Macron, Johnson Address Situation of Syria | A caravan of 35 trucks loaded with vehicles and warfare and logistics materials headed for the city of Shadadi, in the southern Hasakeh province, 866 kilometers northeast of Damascus, as reported by outlet Ikhbariya TV. | Local activists reported on the convoy as it was traveling on…
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Will This Public Health Crisis Lead to a Voting Rights Crisis?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-11
Welcome to Moyers on Democracy. | Bill's guest in this episode is the journalist David Daley. His best-selling first book, Ratf**ked

A Victory for the Fogeys: Bernie Sanders Drops Out
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-10
Champagne corks will be popping in the Trump Empire for good reason. Whatever happens come November, the exit of Senator Bernie Sanders from the US presidential race will be a relief. The fractured republic can be reassured that the Democrats have not moved on, stuck, as it were, in the glades of vengeful melancholia and …
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Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
The bogus trial against Loujain al-Hathloul should compel governments around the world to put more pressure on the Saudis and demand al-Hathloul's immediate and unconditional release…
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