NEW: Watch an expanded documentary by CN Live! Executive Producer Cathy Vogan based on Consortium News‘ reporting from London on the first week of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing.
COVID-19: Haiti on Precipice as Virus and US-Imposed Leadership Take Their Toll
Many must get infected in the street rather than die by hunger at home, report Jeb Sprague and Nazaire St. Fort.
Brazil’s Ex-President on Venezuela: Maduro is Democratic, Guaidó Should Be in Prison, US Blockade Kills Civilians
Ben Norton reports on comments by Lula da Silva that have been ignored by English-language media.
DNC Fraud Lawsuit Plaintiffs Petition Supreme Court
Lawyers are highlighting the High Court’s role in previously deciding on Jim-Crow era practices that excluded African-Americans from participating in Democratic primaries in the South, reports Elizabeth Vos.
COVID-19: Why Don’t Viruses Make Their Original Hosts Sick?
Marcos E. García-Ojeda, a professor of molecular and cell biology, answers five questions about viruses.
COVID-19: China Banning Trade in Wildlife in Wake of Virus
The pandemic offers an opportunity to implement solutions that will ultimately benefit humans and the planet, says George Wittemyer.
Trump Admin’s Bounty on Venezuelan President Triggers Explosive Confession of Violent Plot
COVID-19: What the Virus Might Do to the American Empire
In the new diplomatic landscape, which can as yet only be dimly seen, old verities going back to 1945 will be rediscovered, writes Tony Kevin.
COVID-19: Rethinking Our National Approach
COVID-19: DOJ Seeks to Exploit Emergency to Detain People Indefinitely
Trump’s Department of Justice is asking Congress to allow the attorney general to indefinitely detain people without trial in violation of the constitutional right of habeas corpus, writes Marjorie Cohn.
COVID-19: How Germany is Managing its Outbreak & Reacting with Disdain to Trump’s Policies
A “short time” system, which proved highly successful during the Great Recession of 2008-2012, is being used to prevent a wave of unemployment, Klaus W. Larres reports.
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: Doctors Warning on Assange in a Covid-19 Breeding Ground
COVID-19: Greatest Test for the World Since 1945, says UN Chief
THE ANGRY ARAB: An Apologetic Account of MbS
In his new book about the Saudi crown prince, Ben Hubbard does not deviate one bit from the conventional wisdom of Western reporters, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
COVID-19: War on the Working Class
Money moguls and their servants are willing to add workers to the growing list of victims of a killer virus for the sake of their stock portfolios, writes Greg Godels.
COVID-19: World Suffering Less from Coronavirus Crisis & More from an America Crisis
In the U.S., the abandonment of the poor and downtrodden to their fate has forged not a society worth living in, but a growing dystopia to be escaped, writes John Wight.
COVID-19: Italy Becomes 53rd Nation to Call for Global Ceasefire During Pandemic
Italy on Monday became the 53rd nation to join a call by the UN secretary general for a ceasefire in all the world’s wars as the globe fights the Covid-19 pandemic.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Defiles ‘Common Humanity’ During Pandemic
Washington’s priorities are maintaining divisions, suspicions, animosities and enmities as if there were no global humanitarian crisis.
COVID-19: Contending with a Dual Pathology in Britain
A process of marketization has infested U.K. public services, much like the virus we are tackling today, write Dr. Sarah Gangoli and Dr. Bob Gill.
COVID-19: The Craziest Things About America Highlighted by this Virus
The corporate cronyism of America’s political system has been highlighted with a massive kleptocratic bailout, writes Caitlin Johnstone in this summary of U.S. haywire responses to the crisis.