By Will Bacha on Mar 31, 2020 11:00 am
 Citizen Truth talked to Fulbright grant recipients in Brasil and Spain about their unique situations and the different ways the crisis is affecting their lives and the lives of others in their respective countries. The Coronavirus crisis has had a massive international effect on education. As schools have shut down, students’ learning has been impacted [...]
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By Guest Post on Mar 31, 2020 09:00 am
 “Taking action cost me my job,” said Chris Smalls. “Because I tried to stand up for something that’s right, the company decided to retaliate against me.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) New York Attorney General Letitia James late Monday condemned as “immoral and inhumane” Amazon’s firing of a Staten Island fulfillment center employee who organized [...]
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By Alec Pronk on Mar 31, 2020 07:00 am
 “This is not about fighting disinformation. The Hungarian government is taking advantage of a health emergency to accelerate its already extensive control over news and information in the country.” Yesterday, the Hungarian Parliament passed a law by 137-53 that gives Prime Minister Viktor Orbán emergency powers to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The country’s state of [...]
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By Guest Post on Mar 31, 2020 05:00 am
 The IMF refused a COVID–19 emergency loan to Venezuela unless it agreed to overthrow President Maduro and installs the Washington-backed Juan Guaidó. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) blocked a request from Venezuela for an emergency loan to deal with the COVID–19 pandemic on the grounds that President [...]
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By Jeff Bryant on Mar 30, 2020 03:00 pm
 As the COVID-19 epidemic closes public schools, standards, testing, and charters grow increasingly irrelevant. “The COVID-19 crisis reveals the true intentions of people,” Kathleen Oropeza told me during a phone call. Oropeza is a public school mom in Orlando and founder of Fund Education Now, a non-partisan grassroots effort to advocate for public education in [...]
The post While the Public Experiences a Health Calamity, the Homeschooling Movement Sees a Big Opportunity appeared first on Citizen Truth.
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By Guest Post on Mar 30, 2020 01:00 pm
 “One of the best ways to thank essential workers is to support the fight to improve their lives.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Labor rights advocates on Monday urged the public to show support and solidarity with Amazon employees who walked off the job at a Staten Island warehouse following what the workers said was [...]
The post ‘The Strike Wave Is in Full Swing’: Amazon, Whole Foods Workers Walk Off Job to Protest Unjust and Unsafe Labor Practices appeared first on Citizen Truth.
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By Daniel Davis on Mar 30, 2020 11:00 am
 “I think they are surveilling not only those they know are dissidents, but those they fear may deviate from the Saudi leadership. They are particularly worried about what Saudi nationals will do when they are in western countries.” Saudi Arabia is allegedly tracking its citizens who live in and visit the US, according to a [...]
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By Alec Pronk on Mar 30, 2020 08:00 am
 As of Sunday night, the United States has 143,055 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 2,513 deaths. At a Sunday night press conference, President Donald Trump announced a long list of social distancing guidelines will be extended until April 31st. The guidelines include working from home and avoiding non-essential travel, bars and restaurants. Just four days [...]
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By Ed Orazem on Mar 30, 2020 07:03 am
 Since 1984, Dr. Tony Fauci has run the NIAID, the $5.9 billion US government agency responsible for "leading research to understand, treat, and prevent infectious diseases." While COVID-19 engulfs us, he has become a talk show darling equally adept at describing the unfolding disaster as he is at evading responsibility for its spread. Wake up America, this would-be Emperor Fauci has no clothes.
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By Jack Xiong on Mar 30, 2020 05:00 am
 Grammy-winning rock icon Bob Dylan released a surprise song at the end of last week — a meditation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, through the lends of American political and pop-cultural history. The song was released unexpectedly and for free on March 27, 2020 on Dylan’s YouTube channel. It was notable for being [...]
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By Carmine Sabia on Mar 29, 2020 08:51 pm
 The Food & Drug Administration has authorized the use of two drugs championed by President Donald Trump as a means to fight coronavirus. Emergency Authorization Given On Sunday night the FDA issued an emergency authorization for the use of two anti-malaria drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. Researchers in the United States have begun testing the drugs in [...]
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