(2020-02-26). At least 20 killed in Delhi violence as authorities deploy DRONES to monitor ongoing unrest (VIDEOS, PHOTOS). rt.com 
Indian law enforcement are using drones to identify rioters involved in ongoing violence that has rocked Delhi, killing at least 20 people, according to media reports. | An estimated 20 people have been killed so far in clashes between supporters and opponents of India's controversial citizenship law — the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Indian media reported, citing health officials. The violence, now in its third day, began on Monday as US President Donald Trump headed to the Indian capital to hold talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. | In a tweet on Wednesday, Modi called for his "brothers and sis…
(2020-02-26). Shale decline inevitable as oil prices crash. rt.com 
The US shale industry continues to show signs of slowing down, with production declining in major shale basins outside of the Permian. | Financing stress has plagued the shale sector for quite some time, but investors continue to bail on oil and gas stocks. The FT
(2020-02-26). How Globalization and China's Economic Crisis Might Jeopardize Our Precarious Medical Supply Chains. globalresearch.ca The grave risks and dangers in the process of worldwide out-sourcing and so-called globalization of the past 30 years or so are becoming starkly clear as the ongoing health emergency across China threatens vital world supply chains from China to …
(2020-02-26). As World Scrambles, Experts Warn Virus Is Certain to Spread in U.S. truthdig.com CDC's call for Americans to be prepared for spread of "severe illness" added new urgency to response efforts that had focused on overseas.
(2020-02-26). Elderly man in Tokyo dies of coronavirus. yenisafak.com An man in his 80s died in Tokyo on Wednesday after catching the new coronavirus, Japan's public broadcaster NHK said, citing a government source.This was Japan's third fatality from the coronavirus, excluding those who were on the cruise ship "Diamond Princess", NHK said.The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare said it will hold a press conference at 1200 GMT.
(2020-02-26). Greece confirms first coronavirus case. yenisafak.com Greece has confirmed its first coronavirus case, the health ministry said on Wednesday.The patient was a 38-year-old Greek woman who had travelled from an area of northern Italy, said Sotiris Tsiodras, a representative of the Ministry of Health.
(2020-02-26). Coronavirus: Turkey warns against travel to Iraq, Italy. yenisafak.com With cases of coronavirus rising worldwide, Turkey has advised its citizens against traveling to Iraq and Italy unless absolutely necessary.In two separate statements, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it "strongly advised" the public not to visit infected areas in Iraq and Italy.Ankara has already suspended rail and air services to Iran, where the outbreak has claimed 19 lives so far. Border crossings between the two countries also remain closed. While Iraq has diagnosed five cases as yet, some 322 cases have been reported in Italy with at least 11 deaths thus far, according to its Health Ministry.In C…
(2020-02-26). Greece Reportedly Registers Its First Coronavirus Case. sputniknews.com Earlier in the day, the French health authorities reported the first fatal case from coronavirus after a 60-year-old Frenchman died at the Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital in Paris overnight.
(2020-02-26). President Donald Trump Is Furious About Stock Markets Crashing Due to Coronavirus Fears – Report. sputniknews.com The development comes as the virus continues to spread across the world with cases now being reported in Croatia, Switzerland, Austria, and Brazil. Officials from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have warned that it is not a question of if, but when the infectious disease will spread in the United States.
(2020-02-25). How Are We Going to Pay for Saving Trillions of Dollars? counterpunch.org Enhanced Medicare for All — that wild scheme that Michael Bloomberg calls "untried" because it's only been tested for decades in virtually every wealthy nation on earth — would cost $450 billion a year less than the current U.S. system. In the usual propaganda terms (in which you multiply by ten and then — if asked —
(2020-02-25). 1st Vaccine Batch Against Coronavirus Shipped to Clinical Study. telesurenglish.net U.S. biotech company RELATED: | Vials of mRNA-1273 have been shipped to the NIAID to be used by government researchers in what is known as a Phase 1 Study at the National Institutes of Health,…
(2020-02-25). Trump Sends $2.5B Coronavirus Budget Request to Congress. telesurenglish.net The White House sent to the United States Congress Monday its US$2.5 billion supplemental budget proposal to fight the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). | RELATED: | "Today, the Administration is transmitting to Congress a US$2.5 billion supplemental funding plan to accelerate vaccine development, support preparedness and response activities and to procure much-needed equipment and supplies," Rachel Semmel, a spokes…
(2020-02-25). Robert Reich: America Can't Afford Not to Elect Sanders or Warren. truthdig.com Climate change, inequality and our broken health care system pose unprecedented challenges. Only two candidates are prepared to meet them.
(2020-02-25). Call-In to save the life of Facundo Molares! fightbacknews.org Call-In to save the life of Facundo Molares!
| Call Bolivian Ambassador
| Walter Oscar Serrate Cuellar at
| 202-483-4410 ex. 4 | | When: Tuesday, February 25, 2020
| between 8 am and 4 pm Eastern time | Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Committee To Free Facundo Molares. | Demand, "We want Facundo Molares Schoenfeld released so he can go home to his family now!" | Tell them, "I am concerned for the health and well-being of Facundo Molares. Release him now and allow him to go home to his family!" | Facundo Molares is an Argentinian photojournalist illegally impri…
(2020-02-25). Eight Palestinians Injured by Israeli Missiles in Gaza. imemc.org The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced, Monday evening, that a number of citizens were injured by the Israeli aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip. The ministry said in a press statement: "The arrival of 8 different injuries from eastern Gaza to the Al-Shifa Medical Complex due to the Israeli escalation.
(2020-02-25). Iran's Deputy Minister of Health Is Infected With Covid-19. telesurenglish.net Iran's Deputy Minister of Health Iraj Harirchi, who is in charge of containing the new coronavirus outbreak, Tuesday announced that he is infected with Covid-19. | RELATED: | "Since yesterday I had a fever. My first test last night came out positive and since then I am isolated. A few minutes ago I was confirmed that the final test has also tested positive," Harirchi explained in a video. | The Deputy Minister indicated…
(2020-02-25). Brazil: First Possible Case Of COVID-19, More Tests Needed. telesurenglish.net Brazilian health authorities reported on Tuesday the possible detection of what could be the first case of coronavirus in the country. However, they clarified that a new test has yet to happen for definitive confirmation. | RELATED: | The patient, according to official sources, is a 61-year-old Brazilian man recently returned | from Lombardy, northern Italy, where to date, 11 deaths have occurred, and nearly 320…
(2020-02-25). Hundreds More Infected of Covid-19 in Italy and South Korea. telesurenglish.net South Korea confirmed 144 more cases of Covid-19 Tuesday and the number of deaths to 10 as both the Asian country and Italy now with 322 top the charts of infected cases outside of China. | RELATED: | The number of infected patients rose to 977, after 144 more cases were reported after one day. The Korean Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has been updating the data twice a day at 10: 00 a.m. and 5: 00 p.m. loc…
(2020-02-25). Trump Betrays His Promise to Protect and Fight for American Workers. dissidentvoice.org 
Campaigning for the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised that, if he was elected, "American worker[s] will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them." Has he kept this promise? When it comes to protecting workers' health and safety, his administration has been a disaster. Once in office, Trump packed the …
(2020-02-25). Austerity is fuelling a 'national scandal' of rising inequality between rich and poor areas. thecanary.co 
A health inequality expert has put together a damning report showing how Tory-led austerity has fuelled a 'national scandal' in England.According to professor Sir Michael Marmot, the rise in life expectancy has "slowed dramatically" since 2010. Health inequalities between the most and least deprived parts of the country, meanwhile, have been widening."England has lost a decade": The new report, Health Equity In England: The Marmot Review 10 Years On, showed that the difference in life expectancy at birth between the least and most deprived communities was 9.5 years for men and 7.7 years for women in 2016-1…
(2020-02-25). CDC Says Americans Should Brace for 'Significant Disruptions' Amid Warnings Coronavirus Could Infect 40-70% of Global Population. commondreams.org Public health experts on Tueaday were shifting their attention in discussing the coronavirus—which has infected more than 80,000 people and killed nearly 3,000 since it originated in Wuhan, China in December—as a virus which is expected to spread to much of the world population, including throughout the United States. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-02-24). China Adopts Decision to Ban Trade, Consumption of Wildlife. telesurenglish.net China's top legislature adopted Monday a decision to ban the trade and consumption of wild animals in an attempt to safeguard people's lives and health. | RELATED: | The move came in a bid to safeguard biological and ecological security and prevent major public health risks, as wild animals are largely believed to be the source of the novel coronavirus. | According to the decision, the consumption of wild animals "of…
(2020-02-24). COVID-19 not yet a pandemic, says UN health agency chief. news.un.org While a sudden increase in new cases of COVID-19 is of concern, the spread of coronavirus is not yet a pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
(2020-02-22). Apocalypse Now! Insects, Pesticide and a Public Health Crisis. dissidentvoice.org In 2017, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, and UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics, Baskut Tuncak, produced a report that called for a comprehensive new global treaty to regulate and phase out the use of dangerous pesticides in farming and move towards sustainable agricultural practices. In addition to the devastating impacts …
(2020-02-20). "Most Important Issue for Most People": Split on Healthcare Continues to Define 2020 Race. democracynow.org 
Healthcare continues to be a central issue of the Democratic nomination fight, with Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren repeating their calls for Medicare for All on the debate stage Wednesday night while their rivals proposed more incremental approaches. | We continue our roundtable discussion on Wednesday's Democratic debate in Nevada. Our guests are Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation, America's oldest weekly magazine, and a columnist for WashingtonPost.com; journalist and activist Raquel Willis, executive editor of Out magazine, who has endorsed Senator Elizabeth War…
(2020-02-20). Bernie Sanders Says "Will of the People" Should Decide Democratic Nomination, Not Party Insiders. democracynow.org 
As the primary season heads into the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, we unpack the ninth Democratic presidential debate in a roundtable on the tensions at work on the Las Vegas debate stage. Senator Bernie Sanders, currently the front-runner in the race, said the candidate with the most delegates should become the nominee; all his rivals on stage suggested they would be open to a brokered convention, with superdelegates and other party insiders potentially deciding the nomination. | We continue our discussion with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation; Raquel Willis, journalist, activ…
(2020-02-19). Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year. democracynow.org 
As the Democratic presidential hopefuls prepare to take to the debate stage tonight, we turn to a central issue of the campaign: Medicare for All. In a new study, Yale scholars have found that Medicare for All will save Americans more than $450 billion and prevent 68,000 deaths every year. The study in The Lancet — one of the oldest and most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals — found that Medicare for All, supported by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, will save money and is more cost-effective than "Medicare for All Who Want It, "a model supported by Pete Buttigieg. Sanders referenced the…
(2020-02-19). Nevada Culinary Workers Union Member: I Would Trade My Union Healthcare for Medicare for All. democracynow.org 
The third presidential contest of the primary season takes place Saturday in Nevada. One of the state's most coveted endorsements is from the Culinary Workers Union, which represents some 60,000 workers in the restaurant and hospitality industries in Las Vegas and Reno. Its membership is 54% Latinx. But last week they decided not to endorse any of the candidates. Nevada is a "right to work" state, and the Culinary Workers Union has attracted members by offering them healthcare. It has said it supports "choices" in healthcare. The mobilization of service employees could be critical to winning the Nevada caucuses.
(2020-02-19). Headlines for February 19, 2020. democracynow.org Trump Falsely Claims He Is "Chief Law Enforcement Officer" of U.S., Trump Issues Clemency to White-Collar Criminals and Political Allies, Democratic Presidential Candidates to Take Debate Stage in Nevada, Resurfaced Video Shows Bloomberg Calling for Cuts to Medicare and Social Security, Death Toll from Coronavirus Surpasses 2,000 People, Afghanistan: Ashraf Ghani Declared Winner of Presidential Election, U.N.: 22 Killed, Including 14 Children, in Massacre in Cameroon, Somali Broadcast Journalist Abdiwali Ali Hassan Assassinated, North Carolina Court Temporarily Blocks Discriminatory Voter ID Laws…
(2020-02-18). ICE's Destruction of Records Must Be Stopped. aclu.org Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is | notorious for committing rampant unconstitutional and inhumane abuses in its | detention system — something advocates, communities, and years. Public oversight of ICE detention is about to become even harder, | further eroding accountability and endangering the health and safety of more than | 50,000 people in ICE custody every day. That's because the National Archives | and R…
