2020-07-18: News Headlines

teleSUR (2020-07-17). AMLO Donates 25 Percent Of His Salary To Mexican Hospitals. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Friday that he would donate 25 percent of his salary to contribute to improving health services in the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | During a press conference in the city of Manzanillo, in the state of Colima, the President, also known as AMLO, emphasized that "there can't be a rich government with a poor populace." | The initiative set the exa…

Jeff Bryant (2020-07-17). After Years of Underfunding, Public School Teachers are Now Supposed to Save the Economy? counterpunch.org "After 9/11, New York City police and firefighters were hailed as heroes," said Mary Parr-Sanchez, president of the New Mexico affiliate of the National Education Association, when I spoke with her about how educators have responded to the pandemic in her state. "After this, I hope teachers will be viewed as the community pillars that

Eric A. Gordon (2020-07-17). Eric the Clapper tells us why he claps. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES — "Did you clap tonight?" my faraway husband in Mexico asks me almost every evening when we talk. He's stuck there for immigration reasons, and I'm stuck here for coronavirus reasons. We haven't seen each other since early January, except on Facetime. "Oh, yes," I answer, and he always likes to grasp the …

Center for Biological Diversity (2020-07-17). Thursday 7/16: Saving Life on Earth: The Wall & Current Ecological Devastation of US-Mexico Borderlands. indybay.org Online…

Samantha Bruegger (2020-07-17). Of Toddlers, Wolves, and Public Lands Ranchers. counterpunch.org As I sit here thinking about wolves, my child is now peacefully sleeping in his room. I know he will awake tomorrow and much of his toddler fury will have subsided, creating a time for us to interact with each other positively. I can't help but think of the parallels between some bad-acting livestock producers, grazing on public lands across the West, and my raging pre-bedtime toddler. The evening meltdown ritual is full of entitlement, irrational beliefs, and a lot of whining. It is now in these precious hours of silence that I understand why these tantrums are so familiar. I hear the same chorus from stock grow…

WSWS (2020-07-17). More than two hundred Mexican oil workers at PEMEX have died from COVID-19. wsws.org The state-owned oil company reported that 234 family members of workers have also died from coronavirus.

Laborfest (2020-07-17). Sunday 7/19: LaborFest 2020: Death and Dismissal of Mexican and US Workers. indybay.org This is a free LIVE Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to view and participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.

Tad Daley (2020-07-16). 'A Tragic Illusion': Did the Atom Bomb Make the United Nations Obsolete Three Weeks After its Birth? commondreams.org Mushroom cloud seconds after detonation of "the Gadget" by the U.S. military in 1945 at testing range in New Mexico. (Photo: Department of Defense/Public domain) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trinity_detonation_tb.jpg

teleSUR (2020-07-16). Mexico: The War on Drugs Has Left Over 73,000 Missing Persons. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, outlet La Razon revealed that at least 71,678 people have disappeared since 2006 when the so-called "War On Drugs" began in Mexico. | RELATED: | The information comes from the Interior Secretariat's report "Search, Identification, and Registry of Missing Persons", a document covering from 1964 to 2020, a period in which 73, 201 people disappeared and were never located. | In the National Registry of Missi…

sputniknews (2020-07-15). After 75 Years, Downwind Victims of 'Dirty' Trinity Nuclear Test Shown 'Genocidal' Lack of Concern. sputniknews.com Thursday marks the 75th commemoration of the Trinity Test, the first detonation of a nuclear bomb, in the New Mexico desert. However, the bomb's dirty explosion has caused untold suffering downwind of the blast – suffering never acknowledged or compensated for by the US government, an expert told Sputnik.