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From Settler Violence to Attacks on Haredi Jews, Coronavirus is Laying Israeli Attitudes Bare

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BJP Capitalizes on Coronavirus Fears to Take India’s Fascist Creep to the Next Level

India is accelerating down the track of religious strife, and the government itself is driving the vehicle.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
Coronavirus India

Last week, 22-year-old Dilshad “Mehboob” Ali was dragged into a field on the outskirts of Delhi and beaten with sticks and shoes by an enraged crowd demanding to be told, “who else is behind this conspiracy?” His attackers believed he was part of a “corona Jihad:” an evil plot by India’s Muslim minority to spread the disease and kill as many Hindus

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ICE is Deporting COVID-19 Positive Detainees from Private Immigration Prisons

By continuing deportations of quarantined detainees during a pandemic, ICE is greatly increasing the risk of spreading the deadly virus to other countries officials and activists warn.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
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Woken in the middle of the night and marched out of a crowded, quarantined group cell by prison guards to be deported. That is the story of one D.C.-area man on Wednesday, inside of an ICA Farmville for-profit prison full of hundreds of undocumented immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The unit is in the middle of a

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The Great Gray Hope: Bernie Sanders Tests the Limits of US Political Systems

For all his remarkable accomplishments, Sanders’ legacy in 2020 will likely be that of 2016, which was to be the sheepdog that herded progressives into the Democratic Party and got nothing in return.

Roger D. Harris
بواسطة Roger D. Harris
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The Great Gray Hope has bowed out of the presidential primary race, leaving tottering Joe Biden as the last Democrat standing. What Bernie Sanders accomplished electorally was remarkable, revealing both how far a progressive can venture and the limits proscribing further advancement to the left within the Democratic Party.   Sanders pushes

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Driven by the Dramatic Collapse of US Shale, the Trump Administration Takes Aim at Venezuela

A confluence of factors suggests that such a Panama-style invasion of Venezuela is not only a possibility, but increasingly likely.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
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WASHINGTON DC (The Last American Vagabond) — IPresident Trump recently praised a deal reached largely by Saudi Arabia and Russia, two of the top oil producers in the world who together dominate the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), saying that the agreed upon production cuts would “save hundreds of thousands of energy jobs

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Is American Exceptionalism Shaping Our Scientific Response to the Coronavirus?

While New York City suffers through coronavirus, it’s worth recalling that in the name of science in 1966, the U.S. government released bacteria in the New York subways. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.

David Swanson
بواسطة David Swanson
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(DavidSwanson.org) — What’s the matter with science? By that, do I mean, why don’t we turn away from corrupt politics and religion and follow the way of science? Or do I mean, why have we allowed science to so corrupt our politics and our culture? I mean, of course, both. We don’t need an uneducated jackass telling people how to control a viral

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The Virus of Occupation: Israelis Have Taken To Spitting on Palestinians During Coronavirus

Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel, however, spitting at Palestinians is an entirely different story. 

Ramzy Baroud
بواسطة Ramzy Baroud
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Now that we know that the deadly coronavirus can be transmitted through saliva droplets, Israeli soldiers and illegal Jewish settlers are working extra hard to spit at as many Palestinians, their cars, doorknobs, and so on, as possible. If this sounds to you too surreal and repugnant, then you might not be as familiar with the particular breed

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