The ‘Battle’ Against COVID-19 in a Fragmented World, Has Ruined Billions of Lives

18 May 2020 — 21st Century Wire

Andre Vltchek
21st Century Wire

It is not only about physically surviving the pandemic. People miss people, and places, sometimes desperately. And they die, when separated.

We are bombarded by briefings and numbers. We are scared into submission by horrifying medical stories, by shocking images, and then, simultaneously, by predictions of economic and social downfall. Day and night, day and night.

But somehow, so often during this so-called coronavirus emergency, we tend to forget that people are people, not numbers, and that bare survival is far from everything.

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‘The American friends’: New court files expose Sheldon Adelson’s security team in US spy operation against Julian Assange

14 May 2020 — Grayzone

An exclusive investigation by The Grayzone reveals new details on the critical role Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands played in an apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange, and exposes the Sands security staff who helped coordinate the malicious campaign.

By Max Blumenthal

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An Illusion Of Protection: The Pandemic, The ‘Criminal’ Government And Public Distrust of The Media

18 May 2020 — Media Lens

‘Right from the start we’ve tried to throw a protective ring around the our care homes. We set out our first advice in February – we’ve made sure care homes have the resources they need’ says Health Secretary Matt Hancock.’Sky News May 15, 2020

Any notion that the UK government actually considers that its primary responsibility is to protect the health and security of the country’s population ought to have been demolished in 2020. The appalling death toll that continues to mount during the coronavirus pandemic is largely rooted, not merely in government ‘incompetence’, but in criminal dereliction of its core duties in a supposedly democratic society.

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