Thursday, June 04, 2020

Reuters:
"HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba said this week that use of two drugs produced by its biotech industry that reduce hyper-inflammation in seriously ill COVID-19 patients has sharply curbed its coronavirus-related death toll.

Health authorities have reported just two virus-related deaths over the past nine days among more than 200 active cases on the Caribbean’s largest island, a sign they may have the worst of the outbreak under control. ...

It ascribes the recent reduction in deaths of severely ill COVID-19 patients largely to the use beginning in April of two drugs that appear to help calm the “cytokine storm,” a dangerous over response by the immune system in which it attacks healthy tissue as well as the invading virus."

-->Now do you think that the American media would ever print a story like this? Although impoverished by the US blockade, Cuba's medical system is far superior to ours, and has even come up with some medications that combat the disease. 

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The Guardian UK:
"Democrats in Washington are not just passively failing to mount an opposition to Trump. They are actively helping Republicans. 

These are bleak days for America’s progressive movement. The Democratic primary process handed the party’s nomination to the candidate with the most conservative record. Corporate-friendly politicians like the New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, are using the pandemic to [burnish] their images and install billionaires to run things. Progressive lawmakers in Congress are being steamrolled, even by their own party’s leadership. And a recession is battering the state and local budgets that fund progressive priorities like education and the social safety net. ...

This corporate counter-revolution is easiest to see in Democrats’ enthusiastic support for Republicans’ legislative response to the coronavirus crisis. ... Thanks to that, Trump appointees and the Federal Reserve can now hand out $4tn to politically connected corporations as they lay waste to our economy and steamroll progressive reforms."

-->You will have to go to a foreign country to get an honest assessment like this one. For the US media is in lockstep with the corporate Democrats; giving billions more to billionaires is what Pelosi and Schumer do best.  

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The New York Times:
"The ‘Liberal World Order’ Was Built With Blood. If you read the commentary coming out of New York and Washington, or speak with elites in Western Europe, it’s easy to find people panicking about the loss of 'American leadership.' ...

But as we move deeper into the 21st century, Americans are going to need to confront the darker side of American hegemony — because much of the rest of the world already has. Part of the reason the current order is so fragile is because so many people around the world know, indeed can physically feel in their bodies, that Washington used brutality to construct it."

-->How often does the NYT talk about the millions killed in Indonesia, Chile, Guatemala, or Iraq to make the world "safe" for US capitalism? Granted, we don't hear about current US atrocities in Honduras, Haiti and Venezuela, but it's a start, and a big one for the mouthpiece of the empire.