7 May 2020 — Znet
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Reading op-eds these days about the grim progress of COVID-19 through the United States, I sometimes have the eerie feeling that I’ve traveled backward in time and landed in some sort of Cold War-like, hyper-conformist dystopia — but with one disquieting difference.
7 May 2020 — Tricontinental
Kalia Venereo (Dominio Cuba), Nunca Más, 2020.
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
I admit upfront that this is a hard newsletter to read. It is about debt. There is a bloodless quality to the way that we talk about the debt of the poorer nations. There is nothing poetic here. The numbers are alienating, their outcome shocking.
7 May 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom
This is a very topical discussion and one with which the Bank of England has engaged in. It projects a 14% fall in GDP this year (the most in 300 years) followed by a 15% jump next year. This means a net rise in GDP of 1% over two years. This bounce back could have been justified had the world economy been in good health, instead of suffering a severe underlying condition, chronically low profitability. In the face of a profit crisis, Brexit and a fracturing global economy, that projection of bounce back is the most optimistic since capital first deprived labourers of their instruments of production turning them into an industrial proletariat.
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7 May 2020 — Grayzone
7 May 2020– Origin: Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Democratic Party is a servant of corporate capital and cannot possibly be converted to a people’s party. The rise and demise of Bernie Sanders proves the point.
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5 May 2020 — The Voltaire Network
by Thierry Meyssan
The propaganda device aimed at stifling dissenting voices has taken a step forward. It is no longer simply a matter of accusing them of committing factual errors or deliberately lying, but of presenting them as traitors in the pay of a foreign power.
6 May 2020 — Off Guardian
7 May 2020 — The New Dark Age
Venezuela to refer issue of armed invasion attempt to UN Security Council — president
https://tass.com/world/1153659
New Details Emerge Linking US To Latest Coup Attempt In Venezuela
https://popularresistance.org/new-details-emerge-linking-us-to-latest-coup-attempt-in-venezuela/
7 May 2020 — Off Guardian
The now world-famous Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg – who has decades of experience with viruses, epidemics and their consequences – presents his vision on the Corona ‘Crisis’. A malignant crisis that is entirely driven by misinformation and panic.
The New Dark Age 