Bernie Sanders’ campaign has come & gone without anyone being able to explain how Assadists & anti-Assadists could campaign for the same guy. Many must see in him what they want to see in him.

Hindutva nationalist, General Sisi supporter, & Zionist Tulsi Gabbard dropped out of the presidential race & endorsed Biden who in his lucid moments is also a supporter of Hindutva, General Sisi, Zionism, & racism, especially toward Black kids in the US. The lesser evil crowd will be hard-pressed but trust me, they will find a way to justify voting for Biden. The hallmark of US elections is that principles are subordinated to the expedience of getting your candidate elected.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is big-talking about their ‘substantial donation’ to Italy to fight the coronavirus. What is he doing to protect child & forced Uyghur labor in the Chinese sweatshops that produce Apple products?

US immigration authorities say they will not arrest refugees at health care facilities except in extraordinary circumstances because of the coronavirus epidemic. But Trump wants ICE to round them up out of their sick beds & deport them. A psychopath runs the US government & with social distancing we are unable to protest his policies.

https://news.yahoo.com/covid-19-us-migrant-cops-pledge-no-arrests-155233248.html

Meanwhile, Syria & Russia continue their scorched earth bombing of civilians & Assadist propagandists & cultists mock the coronavirus epidemic & talk about Venezuela.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/coronavirus-syria-fear-mounts-refugees-idlib-covid-19?

Kashmiri musician MC Kash tweeted:

“According to WHO data, “people over the age of 60 are at a greater risk of developing a severe case of COVID-19, with those over 80 experiencing the highest death rate.” We are in a fight to save our aging parents. #KashmirCovid19! Educate yourself on this 2G speed, you must!”

This is so much more a humane approach to the epidemic than accepting the triage of seniors.

(MC Kash @MCKashKashmir)

This is a quite interesting article contrasting the response of China & the US to the coronavirus epidemic & speculating about the political ramifications in terms of competition between the two countries for world dominance. There’s more to it than the article lays out–like those 700 US military bases all over the world–but there is also the economic competition between the two where Chinese exploitation of Uyghur, child, & sweatshop labor gives it an advantage. We should not get too caught up in the power politics of this worldwide health crisis so much as understand the complete failure of the two political systems to address it & their chicanery in manipulating it.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-03-18/coronavirus-could-reshape-global-order?

South Padre Island, just off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico, (one hour from here) is a hot spot for spring breakers who bring millions in revenues to local businesses. We can chastise young privileged students for recklessness but the responsibility is solely with South Padre & Texas officials. The only access to that island is via a couple bridges from the mainland. In the interests of public health, they only need close down access to students crossing & they have not done so. But the plot sickens since many of those students also cross over into nearby Mexico for shopping & partying & present a public health risk to Mexicans who have no social security or healthcare. News media is talking about the undeveloped brains of teens to explain the recklessness but the real issue is the greed of South Padre & Texas businesses.

“The irony of fate: For the first time, Israel is tasting some of the hell it has been dishing out for decades to its subjects. With alarming speed, Israelis have entered a reality known to every Palestinian child.”

–Israeli journalist Gideon Levy in Haaretz, March 19, 2020

(Photo of Palestinian boy by Mohammed Salem/Reuters 2012)