Liberation From Insanity: Moscow Suburb in Open Rebellion Against Sobyanin's Covid Gulag
Edward Slavsquat | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
In a quiet town not far from Moscow, a nameless hero unceremoniously cut the Caution tape that once vandalized the neighborhood swing set. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, children are playing in the park as their parents (probably now unemployed, but with their self-respect forever intact) stroll arm in arm. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, my son's great-grandmother (once harassed by the police for daring to show her face) now marches through the streets. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, public trashcans reveal a holocaust of Non-Essential Activity. | In a quiet town not far from Moscow, t…
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How Covid Alarmists Waged Biological Warfare on Nursing Homes
Fraser Myers | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
| The daily death figures from hospitals have dominated the news headlines and the government's press briefings during Britain's coronavirus crisis so far. Mercifully, those figures have been in decline for some time now. The peak of hospital deaths was passed on 8 April
Podcast: Netanyahu's Fake Documents Pushed the US Towards War
Kyle Anzalone | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
On FPF #486, I discuss how Israel apparently used fake documents to push Trump towards war with Iran in April 2018. | Gareth Porter has a great article out that explains how it is clear the documents were forgeries. | Netanyahu released the documents in April of 2018 before Trump withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Deal and imposed a 'maximum pressure' sanctions campaign against Iran. | The economic war – and other provocative actions by Trump – has moved the US un…
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4/30/20: 45th Anniversary of Victory in Vietnam
repost | indybay.org | 2020-05-01
On April 30, 1975, the "little people in black pajamas" of Vietnam defeated the mightiest, most despicable war machine the world had seen since Nazi Germany, namely the US military, as they chased the US military and their local lackeys onto helicopters, boats and planes, causing celebrations around the world, including here in the Bay Area where we, who opposed the war machine and resisted the draft, danced in streets. Today, Vietnam has ZERO deaths from the coronavirus because it has SOCIALIZED medicine. For more, see www.counterpunch.org/2020/04/30/a-letter……
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Caravan for Life: Protesters in Puerto Rico Demand More Tests & Resources to Combat the Coronavirus
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-01
On Thursday in Puerto Rico, activists in dozens of cars held a "Caravan Por La Vida," or "Caravan for Life," through San Juan to demand the government provide more COVID-19 tests and sufficient resources for people to stay at home during the pandemic. At least 92 people have died from COVID-19 in Puerto Rico, and last week the island was reporting a testing rate lower than any U.S. state, at an abysmal average of 15 tests a day for every 100,000 people. No one in Puerto Rico has received $1,200 checks from the government, according to San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. Police stopped the caravan and said their sou…
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When Undocumented Activists Infiltrated ICE
Mark Engler | thenation.com | 2020-05-01
When Undocumented Activists Infiltrated ICE…
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Workers' Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist International Manifesto
| workers.org | 2020-05-01
Workers World Party has endorsed this international declaration for May Day, initiated by the Party of Liberation of Argentina and others, and endorsed as of April 30 by the parties listed at the end. This May 1, fight together against imperialism. Activists in San Juan, Puerto Rico, hold up wooden . . . | Continue reading Workers' Revolutionary and Anti-Imperialist International Manifesto at Workers.org…
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Car caravan in North Carolina demands aid for people, not companies
Calvin Deutschbein | workers.org | 2020-05-01
Durham, N.C. Following decades of genocidal governmental policies exposed by the coronavirus crisis, North Carolinians had enough! A coalition of hundreds of community groups called "NC United for Survival & Beyond" organized a 30-car caravan on April 24
When Undocumented Activists Infiltrated ICE
Mark Engler | thenation.com | 2020-05-01
When Undocumented Activists Infiltrated ICE…
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WATCH protesters light flares, gather for Walpurgis Night in Berlin despite ban on mass rallies during Covid-19 lockdown
rt.com | 2020-05-01
Police have broken up a Walpurgis Night demonstration in Berlin, where protesters had gathered in violation of the quarantine measures imposed amid the Covid-19 pandemic. More unauthorized rallies are expected on May Day. | A few dozen black-clad masked left-wing activists had gathered in the German capital's Friedrichshain District on Thursday evening, despite the ban on large public assemblies. They waved burning flares while standing on two balconies of a house, set up loudspeakers and hung banners from windows. | Police arrived at the scene and ordered the protesters to clear the area. No major clashes wer…
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Australia Claimed ICU Covid Hospitalizations Would Peak at 5000 Even With Lockdown. They Never Broke 200
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
After the Australian government ordered medical martial law in late March it produced a projection justifying the lockdown in early April. Unlike the more famous Imperial College projection in the UK this was an official projection by the government itself. | The document spelled out in no uncertain terms that lockdown was necessary because Australia only…
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California County to Defy Statewide Lockdown, California City to Sue the State Over Order to Close Beaches
By Noah Biesiada | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
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41 US States Lost More People to the 2018 Flu Than to Covid-19
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
Here's an interesting graphic comparing people who succumbed to the flu in the 2017-18 season by US states and people who perished while testing positive for Covid-19 in 2020, or who are merely "suspected" of having perished with Covid-19, or who were heart attack excess deaths declared "Covid victims" by the diktat of CDC or Governor Cuomo: | Just eight states
There Will Be Blowback, In Mostly Good Ways
Jeffrey A. Tucker | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
Two months ago, it had been mandatory in my local grocery to use only shopping bags brought from home. Plastic bags were illegal by local ordinance. Then the virus hit. Suddenly the opposite was true. It was illegal to bring bags from home because they could spread disease. Plastic bags were mandatory. As a huge fan of plastic bags, I experienced profound Schadenfreude. | It's amazing how the prospect of death clarifies priorities. | Before the virus, we indulged in all sorts of luxuries such as dabbling in dirtiness and imagining a world purified by bucolic naturalness. But when the virus hit, we suddenly rea…
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Police Asks Brits to Call Them If 'Friends or Family' Repeat Conspiracy Theories
Cindy Harper | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
Asking people to call the police on family engaging in "conspiracy theories" is an idea that sounds like it comes out of China's social credit system. | But it's not. It's happening in the United Kingdom. | Police in Manchester, England, are engaging in a social media campaign, requesting local residents to call police if any of their friends and family are engaging in "conspiracy theories." | "Online platforms can be a fun world. Unfortunately, they can also be used to exploit vulnerable people. If you are worried that one of your friends or family is showing signs of radicalisation seek advice or call police…
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The $20 Billion US Hospital Network UPMC Says COVID Not as Deadly as Feared, Will Shift Back to Normal
David Wenner | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
A UPMC doctor on Thursday made a case the death rate for people infected with the new coronavirus may be as low as 0.25%
Michigan Legislators Vote to End Draconian Shutdown so Governor Proclaims Executive Dictatorship
RT | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-01
Lawmakers and residents have lashed out at Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's decision to prolong a state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic, ignoring a vote in the legislature to let the draconian measure expire. | Whitmer signed three new executive orders on Thursday, decrees which she said were necessary in order to "continue fighting Covid-19 and save lives." | The move came after both the state house and the state senate voted against extending the governor's previous state of emergency order, which was set to expire at midnight. | The new executive orders give Whitmer broad and far-reaching pow…
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Baby Boomers for Biden Recant Left Legacy
Roger D. Harris | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-30
Former members of the leading Vietnam War-era peace organization in the US, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), recently circulated an open letter warning today's young activists to
Video: How the US Makes Countries Pay for Its Wars: Economics of American Imperialism with Michael Hudson
Prof Michael Hudson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-30
Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and even their own military occupation. | Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the economics of Washington's empire, …
globalresearch.ca/video-how-us-makes-countries-pay-its-wars-economics-american-imperialism-michael-hudson/5711354
Mayor Tells New York Jews to Brace for Disease-Fighting Mass Arrests
Marko Marjanović | anti-empire.com | 2020-04-30
New York mayor had a forceful message for disease-spreading Jews and all other such communities: Meine Botschaft an die jàºdische Gemeinde und alle Gemeinden ist so einfach: Die Zeit fàºr Warnungen ist vorbei. Ich habe die NYPD angewiesen, sofort mit der Vorladung fortzufahren oder sogar diejenigen zu verhaften, die sich in groàüen Gruppen versammeln. Hier geht es darum, diese Krankheit zu stoppen und Leben zu retten. Zeitraum. | In English that is: My message to the Jewish community, and all communities, is this simple: the time for warnings has passed. I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immed…
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May Day in MN – Twin Cities to celebrate online
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-30
Minneapolis, MN – Activists will gather virtually to celebrate May Day here, on Saturday, May 2. The 4 p.m. gathering is taking the place of the originally scheduled annual May Day dinner celebration, which the Twin Cities branch of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) has held for over 20 years. | Local fighters are video-recording presentations, which will be interspersed with photos and footage from the year's demonstrations. The video will be shared for a watch party on May 2. | This year's FRSO organizers state, "On May Day, we join with workers from around the world and celebrate the shared strug…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/4/30/may-day-…
Et tu? Progressive Boomers Are Now Preaching Pro-Biden Lesser-Evilism
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-30
At a time when an independent progressive movement is needed more than ever, the sheepdogs of a bygone era are trying to herd a new generation of activists into the Democratic Party.
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Seeking justice during COVID-19: Black man killed while jogging in Georgia
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-30
A 25-year-old Black man was shot and killed while jogging after being pursued by two white men in Brunswick, Georgia. Over two months have passed since the incident, and still no one has been charged for his murder. Friends, family, and activists are looking for answers in Ahmaud Arbery's death, but they are afraid the …
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Stir Crazy! Episode #23: The Empire State
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-28
On today's show: TRNN Digital Director Charles Lenchner. We're also joined by founding member of the Chinatown Collective which hosts the Charm City Night Market Leandro Lagera and Democratic State Committeeman and activist from Manhattan's 66th Assembly District Ben Yee. Hosted by Kim Brown.
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Headlines for April 27, 2020
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-27
Global Coronavirus Deaths Top 207,000 as Hard-Hit European Nations Start Relaxing Lockdowns, States Prepare to Reopen Economies as Cases Continue to Mount, Doctors See Rise in Strokes Caused by Coronavirus; CDC Expands List of Possible Symptoms, Oakland Police Tackle and Detain Unhoused Outreach Workers, Poison Control Center Calls Spike After President Trump Suggests Injections of Disinfectant, WHO Warns Against Issuing "Immunity Passports", Activists Hold "Cancel the Rent" Protests Around the Country, Coronavirus Outbreak Reported at Tyson Foods Meat Processing Plant, "Larry King Live" Tape from 1993 Supports T…
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Activists Win Earth Day Victory Against Dirty Trash Incinerator
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-24
Activists held a die-in at the incinerator to demand its closing while wearing face masks and gloves to protect against COVID-19.
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Wisconsin's Fight Against the F-35s
Alice Herman | progressive.org | 2020-04-24
Activists continue to push back against the Air Force's decision to locate fighter planes in Madison.
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Malaysian activists say 'let Rohingya boats land'
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-29
Healthcare Refugees & migrants Alex SalmonIssue 1263 Malaysia COVID-19 Rohingya refugeesApril 29, 2020A boat carrying 200 Rohingy…
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