The New York Times:
"Childbirth in Venezuela, Where Women's Deaths Are a State Secret. We spent weeks following women inside the country's health care system, which has been crippled by a broken economy overseen by an increasingly authoritarian government."
-->Another long propaganda piece on Venezuela by The NYT. Only once in the entire article does it even mention the crippling blockade and sanctions imposed by the US. Maternity deaths are all supposedly the fault of "a broken economy overseen by an increasingly authoritarian government."
But let's compare Venezuela's maternity deaths to Haiti's, a country whose elected president has been overthrown twice by the CIA. A country completely in the grip of the US corporate interests, like Disney, Polo, J.C.Penney and Walmart. Venezuela had 125 deaths per 100,000 live births, but Haiti had 480. Why doesn't the NYT do a story on maternity deaths there?
Or a story about maternity deaths in the US, where Black women are "six times as likely to die of pregnancy related conditions as white women (ABC Eyewitness News story on Illinois Jan 30, 2020)? Why, that would put the number of Black maternity deaths in the US at much higher than the death rate in Venezuela. The deceit of our state run propaganda machine, our neoliberal NYT!
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Code Pink:
"On Wednesday, April 7, 2020, the Jerusalem Post broke the story: "US Department of Defense gives 1 million [surgical] masks to IDF for coronavirus use." The shipment, which had arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport the night before, was also described on Twitter by Israeli army radio journalist Tsahi Dabush: 'Credit to US Department of Defense procurement delegates,' he wrote.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has described over and over the shortage of medical equipment facing his state and the entire country. Nurses at many U.S. hospitals must stretch one disposable N95 respirator mask throughout an entire work shift — up to 12 hours — because there are simply not enough."
-->Our mainstream media didn't cover this story. And Cuomo is not likely to object, having shown himself a greater friend to Israel than to his own NY State constituents even as thousands of New Yorkers die of COVID 19.
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Common Dreams:
"Climate advocates are slamming banking interests after a report Thursday revealed that JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citigroup are planning to take over distressed oil and gas companies assets in the wake of an industry collapse, likely by using new access to federal bailout money included in the coronavirus relief package passed by Congress.
'It's never been more obvious that fossil fuels are a bad investment, and yet rather than following their supposed commitments to climate action, these big banks are doubling down on their toxic investments and getting directly into the fossil fuel business,' Sierra Club campaign representative Ben Cushing said in a statement.
-->This bailout is going to be worse than in 2008, when the corporations and the very rich showered themselves with taxpayer dollars.
