US Intel Agencies Played Unsettling Role in Classified and “9/11-like” Coronavirus Response Plan

As coronavirus panic grips the world, concern over government overreach is growing given the involvement of US intelligence agencies in classified meetings for planning the U.S.’ coronavirus response.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
US Coronavirus Response Feature photo

As the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis comes to dominate headlines, little media attention has been given to the federal government’s decision to classify top-level meetings on domestic coronavirus response and lean heavily “behind the scenes” on U.S. intelligence and the Pentagon in planning for an allegedly imminent explosion of cases. The

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To Help Stem Spread of Coronavirus, Trump Must Lift Sanctions on Iran

US Sanctions, according to Human Rights Watch, have not only been devastating to Iranian civilians, but they have also crippled the country’s ability to effectively deal with the coronavirus.

Ariel Gold
Medea Benjamin
By Ariel Gold
And Medea Benjamin
Coronavirus Iran Feature photo

The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is far from the first proof of how intertwined we are as a global community. The climate crisis and the refugee crisis have long been glaring examples that the wars or CO2 emissions on one continent risk the lives and well-being of people on another continent. What coronavirus is providing, however, is a unique

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Creative Coronavirus Responses Appear Across the World, but Not in Trump’s America

The World Health Organization has officially declared the coronavirus a pandemic and countries across the globe are coming up with clever methods of halting its spread putting the Trump administration’s lackluster response to shame.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Trump Coronavirus

As the World Health Organization declared the novel COVID-19 virus a pandemic today, countries across the globe are coming up with clever and creative methods of halting its spread or dampening its impact, putting the U.S.’ lackluster response to shame. The world’s smallest country, the Vatican, confirmed its first case of coronavirus last week.

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Coronavirus: New York Won’t Close Schools Because Homeless Kids Have Nowhere Else to Go

For many thousands of students across New York City and the United States, school is the only place they receive regular meals, shelter, medical care, and other vital services.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
coronavirus New York Feature photo

As the number of cases of COVID-19 in the tri-state area rises to over 150, Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared a state of emergency across New York State. Local universities like Hofstra, Columbia and Yeshiva have shut their doors on students today. But the city has no plans to close public k-12 schools – because tens of thousands of homeless

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Big Banks Call for Wall Street Deregulation to “Fight Coronavirus”

As Naomi Klein laid out in her bestseller “Shock Doctrine,” the wealthy elite use the confusion caused by economic and other disasters to quickly force through pro-free-market legislation.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Coronavirus Wall Street

As coronavirus panic hits the U.S., a financial lobbying group is attempting to use the crisis to push through the deregulation of its industry. The Bank Policy Institute (BPI), a Washington-based lobbying organization representing many of the nation’s largest banks, released a set of proposals this week, the most important of which recommends that

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A Nightmare Scenario: Coronavirus in ‘Quarantined’ Gaza

Gaza is woefully unprepared to deal with any public health crisis thanks to the Israeli-occupation. That makes an outbreak of Coronavirus a nightmare scenario writes Ramzy Baroud.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian children look out from their window in a section of a damaged apartment block, which was partially destroyed by Israel in 2014 in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, Feb. 22, 2016. Hatem Moussa | AP

What if the Coronavirus reaches the besieged Gaza Strip? While the question carries great urgency for all Palestinians living under Israel’s military occupation, the situation in Gaza is particularly complex and extremely worrying. Nearly 50 countries have already reported cases of COVID-19, one of several epidemics that are caused by the

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