Monthly Archives: July 2020

2020-07-17: News Headlines

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…

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 also reported that 234 family members of workers have also died from coronavirus.

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…

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.

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…

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

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.

Nino Pagliccia (2020-07-14). US-Mexico Relations: The Outcome of the Trump-AMLO Meeting in Washington? globalresearch.ca Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) has ended his trip to Washington that was intended to celebrate with the signing of a joint declaration pertaining to the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that took effect last July 1. Canada's …

2020-07-16: News Headlines

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.

Nino Pagliccia (2020-07-14). US-Mexico Relations: The Outcome of the Trump-AMLO Meeting in Washington? globalresearch.ca Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) has ended his trip to Washington that was intended to celebrate with the signing of a joint declaration pertaining to the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that took effect last July 1. Canada's …

WSWS (2020-07-14). Coronavirus cases, deaths soar in Mexico and across Latin America. wsws.org Mexico has now surpassed Italy in known COVID-19 deaths, making the country's pandemic outbreak the fourth deadliest in the world.

RT (2020-07-14). US Air Force loses 2nd F-16 in 2 weeks as fighter jet crashed at New Mexico base. rt.com A US Air Force supersonic F-16 fighter jet crashed during landing at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, the military said. This is the second such incident in two weeks. | The crash occurred at around 6pm local time on Monday. The sole pilot ejected safely and suffered "minor injuries," the airbase said in a short statement. An emergency response team was deployed at the crash site. The plane was assigned to the 49th Wing. | The incident is the second USAF F-16 loss in two weeks. On June 30, a pilot was killed in a training flight crash at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. | Other types of aircraft…

Staff (2020-07-14). Headlines for July 14, 2020. democracynow.org California Shuts Down Again as COVID-19 Cases Surge, L.A., San Diego, Atlanta to Hold All Classes Online, "Shame on You!": Protester Disrupts Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Mexican Man Dies of COVID-19 a Month After Being Detained by ICE, Report: 5.4 Million Lose Health Insurance Due to Job Losses During Pandemic, WHO Warns Pandemic Could "Get Worse and Worse and Worse", Amnesty: 3,000 Health Workers Have Died from COVID-19, China: 2 Million Displaced, 141 Missing in Historic Flooding, Federal Government Carries Out First Execution in 17 Years, Judges Block Restrictive Abortion Laws in Tennessee and Georgia, Oreg…

teleSUR (2020-07-13). Immunity Against COVID-19 May Be Lost In Months, Study Says. telesurenglish.net The London King's College Monday published a study revealing that people who have recovered from COVID-19 may lose their immunity within a few months. | RELATED: | After testing more than 90 patients and health care workers' immune response, scientists found that antibodies capable of destroying the virus peaked about three weeks after the onset of symptoms, and then rapidly declined. | "People are producing a reasonable an…