2020-04-20: Social Media Postees

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Selected Articles: A Universal Basic Income Is Essential and Will Work
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | | | If, like us, this is a …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-universal-basic-income-essential-will-work/5710167

Protesters gather in Russia's N. Ossetia-Alania to demand cancellation of self-isolation rules
rt.com | 2020-04-20
Hundreds of protesters

Anti-quarantine protesters inspired by Covid-19-denying former opera singer hurl stones, clash with police in Vladikavkaz
rt.com | 2020-04-20
A group of protesters neglected social distancing and surrounded the local government's office in Vladikavkaz in Russia's south. They demanded the coronavirus quarantine to be lifted and scuffled with the police. | Videos from the Svoboda (Freedom) Square in the capital of Russia's Republic of North Ossetia showed the demonstrators trying to break police cordons and tossing stones at officers in full riot gear. | The unsanctioned rally began at noon on Monday with a group of people gathering outside the administration, with only a few wearing face masks and staying very close to each other. They were quite…
rt.com/russia/486351-vladikavkaz-russia-coronavirus-lockdown-protest/

Russian and Venezuelan Presidents Hold Solidarity Phone Meeting
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-20
Venezuela and Russia agreed on Monday to consolidate their bilateral relations at a strategic level in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro held a telephone conversation with his Russian colleague, Vladimir Putin. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro Closes Brazil's Embassy and Consulates in Venezuela | Both leaders reiterated their condemnation of the imposition of coercive measures by the United States government against Venezuela. | The conversatio…
telesurenglish.net/news/Russian-and-Venezuelan-Presidents-Hold-Solidarity-Phone-Meeting-20200420-0007.html

WATCH Russian military lab in action on the forefront of Italy's Covid-19 battle
rt.com | 2020-04-20
A rare video takes us behind the scenes of the Russian military's field laboratory set up outside Italy's coronavirus-hit Bergamo, revealing how absolute sterility is achieved and how the tests are done. | The clip from the Defense Ministry shows the full cycle of the lab's operations

Lies Won't Stop COVID-19
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-20
Washington-based military think tanks constantly warn of possible attacks by the wicked North Koreans who have a large arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and missiles to deliver to North America. | So do Britain, France, Russia, India, Pakistan, China, India …
globalresearch.ca/lies-wont-stop-covid-19/5710140

Zarif informs Assad that Iran, Russia, Turkey will discuss Syria constitutional committee soon
rt.com | 2020-04-20
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday that Iran, Russia, and Turkey will soon hold consultations on Syria's constitutional committee and the situation in Idlib. The statement was released by Iran's Foreign Ministry. | Assad and Zarif met in Damascus to discuss developments in the north of Syria and the political process in the country, including the constitutional committee. The Syrian president voiced regret that the coronavirus pandemic has become a subject of political investment by some states in the West, "mainly the US, which continues to impose sancti…
rt.com/newsline/486320-syria-assad-iran-zarif/

Russian Officials Dawdled as the Coronavirus Took Hold
Alec Luhn | thenation.com | 2020-04-20
Russian Officials Dawdled as the Coronavirus Took Hold…
thenation.com/article/world/russian-officials-dawdled-as-coronavirus-took-hold/

Russia's Putin says peak of coronavirus crisis is ahead
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-20
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia had managed to curb the coronavirus crisis but the peak of the outbreak still lay ahead.The number of Russian confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed 47,000 on Monday with a death toll of 405.
yenisafak.com/en/world/russias-putin-says-peak-of-coronavirus-crisis-is-ahead-3517439

Russia's Coronavirus Peak Still Ahead – Putin
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-20
Russia recorded over 4,200 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, with the total surpassing 47,100.
sputniknews.com/russia/202004201079029519-russias-coronavirus-peak-still-ahead—putin/

Russian President Vladimir Putin Takes Part in Meeting on COVID-19 Situation – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-20
The day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the situation with coronavirus is fully under control, adding that people at all levels of power are working in a dynamic, organised and responsible way.
sputniknews.com/russia/202004201079028327-russian-president-vladimir-putin-takes-part-in-meeting-on-covid-19-situation—video/

Stranded Russian speed skating pair finally evacuated home after going ahead with Bali holiday amid Covid-19 pandemic
rt.com | 2020-04-19
Russian speed skating duo Anna Chernova and Elena Sokhryakova have become the last of the country's athletes to be evacuated to their homeland after being stranded on holiday island Bali amid the coronavirus pandemic. | The Russian Sports Ministry confirmed at the end of last week that 96 people – including athletes, coaches and various specialists – had been evacuated from around the world with the help of the Foreign Ministry and Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya). | That included speed skating pair Chernova and Sokhryakova, who were among the last to return having gone ahead with a trip to the Indo…
rt.com/sport/486261-russian-speed-skaters-return-home-bali/

Putin Assures Russians that COVID-19 Situation is Under Control
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-19
President Vladimir Putin assured on Sunday that the situation regarding the new COVID-19 virus in Russia is under control, and he was convinced that the European nation will successfully pass this test. | RELATED: | Russia: Putin Launches New Financial Support for Workers | "All levels of power work at a good pace, in an organized and responsible manner. The situation is under total control. Our entire society is united in the face of a common threat," he said in a video message broad…
telesurenglish.net/news/Putin-Assures-Russians-that-COVID-19-Situation-is-Under-Control-20200419-0002.html

Saudi Arabia's client-state relationship with the US should concern the whole world
Thembisa Fakude | iranian.com | 2020-04-19
When Saudi Arabia approached members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its affiliates recently to cut oil production in an attempt to cushion the impact of the falling oil prices as a result of Covid-19, Russia rejected the proposal. The subsequent spat between Moscow and Riyadh saw the Saudis and the United …
iranian.com/2020/04/19/saudi-arabias-client-state-relationship-with-the-us-should-concern-the-whole-world/

Risks and Realities of Extending the UN Arms Embargo on Iran
Arms Control Association | iranian.com | 2020-04-19
More than a decade ago, the United States and its partners secured UN Security Council support for a series of resolutions imposing increasingly tough sanctions on Iran as part of an effort to pressure Tehran into multilateral talks to curb its nuclear program and block its pathways to nuclear weapons. The United States along with …
iranian.com/2020/04/18/risks-and-realities-of-extending-the-un-arms-embargo-on-iran/

Where the Skripals Are Today
Eric Zuesse | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-18
On 4 March 2018, both Sergei Skripal and his daughter who was visiting from their shared home country of Russia, Yulia Skripal, were poisoned in Salisbury England, and

As US Shale Oil Plunges, Trump Admin Takes Aim at Venezuela
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-17
WASHINGTON DC ( The Last American Vagabond)

Book Review: Lenin's What is to be Done?
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-17
Why review a book that the Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin began in 1901 and finished in 1902? The short answer is the book is just that good and it has endured the test of time, and the 150th anniversary of Lenin's birth is a good occasion for it. | A more complete answer is as follows

Virtual vigil at Livermore Lab: A global safety net is needed
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-17
A longstanding tradition took a new form this year, as nuclear disarmament advocates gathered virtually for the annual Good Friday Vigil normally held at the entrance to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., which is at the center of the Trump administration's drive to develop new, ever more dangerous types of nuclear weapons. …
peoplesworld.org/article/virtual-vigil-at-livermore-lab-a-global-safety-net-is-needed/