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May 2, 2020

No Good Options for Migrant Workers in Gulf COVID-19 Lockdown

Andrea Wright Middle East Research and Information Project

Infection in the Gulf is growing rapidly. On April 14, 2020, the Gulf States collectively reported 16,613 cases of COVID-19. By April 29, the Gulf States have 50,572 cases.

May 2, 2020

A More Progressive Society or a More Dystopian One?

John Cassidy The New Yorker

Concentrations of economic power have to be confronted. Workers’ rights and bargaining power have to be extended.

May 2, 2020

COVID-19, Capitalism, and Socialism

Victor Wallis Political Animal Magazine

Coronoavirus reveals the divide between the socialist principal of using health care to meet human needs and the capitalist practice of treating health care as a commodity.

May 2, 2020

A Progressive Victory over the Coronavirus

John Feffer Foreign Policy In Focus

South Korea, having beaten back the coronavirus, is now poised to show the world how to move forward to save lives, democracy, and the planet.

May 2, 2020

Trump’s Cruel Cuts Deepen Yemen’s Misery. Now Comes the Virus

Ali Al Mujahed New York Times Post

Families in a Yemeni camp for displaced people.

The five-year civil war between Houthi rebels and pro-government troops backed by a US-supported Saudi-led military coalition has devastated Yemen. Some 24 million Yemenis rely on humanitarian aid to survive, aid President Trump has now suspended.

May 2, 2020

The Coronavirus Takes Heavy Economic Toll on Rural Hospitals

Carl Segerstrom High Country News

“Closed” sign at North Carolina’s Yadkin Valley Community Hospital.

In the midst of a pandemic, more than 200 hospital networks in the US have cut medical staff. And without a steady influx of federal funding or an overhaul of the system, the fiscal consequences of the coronavirus could devastate rural health care.

May 1, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | May 1, 2020

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Kushner and Trump Call Coronavirus Response 'Success Story' and 'Great Job.' Sitting in Limbo | John Cruz. The Innocence Files | Netflix. Remember When Trump Said Coronavirus Would Disappear in April? How Voting by Mail Could Save the US Election.

Kushner and Trump Call Coronavirus Response 'Success Story' and 'Great Job'

May 1, 2020

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at the White House calling their response to the coronavirus pandemic a success story even as the country passes grim new milestones

Sitting in Limbo | John Cruz

May 1, 2020

Playing for Change's new Live Outside video of our friend and brother, John Cruz, performing Jimmy Cliff's "Sitting in Limbo."

The Innocence Files | Netflix

May 1, 2020

Through the lens of The Evidence, The Witness and The Prosecution, The Innocence Files shines a powerful light on the untold personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the nonprofit organization the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have uncovered and worked tirelessly to overturn. Full review here.