COVID-19 Must Radicalize Doctors: We Cannot Remain on the Political Periphery
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-04-27
Medical education is known for its stress, with high rates of mental illness and burnout often attributable to a toxic work environment

Fasten your seatbelt: Boeing CEO warns it could be 'years' before aviation industry recovers from Covid-19 financial turbulence
rt.com | 2020-04-27
Boeing CEO David Calhoun told an online meeting of the aviation giant's shareholders it would be "a while before the dividend comes back," describing the situation as "like nothing we have ever experienced." | "It will be years before this returns to pre-pandemic levels. We are in an unpredictable and fast-changing environment, and it is difficult to estimate when the situation will stabilize," Calhoun warned. | On top of that, he said, when…
rt.com/business/487059-boeing-calhoun-coronavirus-aviation-industry/

Podcast: Whitney Webb on the Rise of a Biotech Industrial Complex Under COVID-19
Mnar Muhawesh | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-23
In this segment of MintCast, investigative journalist Whitney Webb unpacks the many conflicts of interests at play in the government and corporate COVID-19 response and how the search for a cure ties into a larger agenda to use public fear over the pandemic to build a techno-tyrannical state worthy of Orwell's "1984."
mintpressnews.com/podcast-whitney-webb-coronavirus-mass-surveillance/266905/

Saudi's Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-04-04
The bogus trial against Loujain al-Hathloul should compel governments around the world to put more pressure on the Saudis and demand al-Hathloul's immediate and unconditional release…
zcomm.org/zmagazine/saudis-brave-women-pull-back-the-curtain-on-crown-prince-mbs/

Juan González: "Make No Mistake: This Country Is Edging Closer to Neo-Fascist Authoritarianism"
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-04-21
We get an update from Democracy Now! co-host Juan González about his mother and wife, who were infected with COVID-19, and discuss how right-wing Trump supporters are brandishing automatic weapons at protests to demand an end to coronavirus shutdowns and are being egged on by the president. "We should make no mistake, that this country is edging closer and closer to neo-fascist authoritarianism," says González, expressing concern these actions will become normalized in the lead-up to a bitter national election in November.
www.democracynow.org/2020/4/21/juan_gonzalez_coronavirus_update