Trending Now #122, 3.13-19.20

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Deep Focus: “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming”

Lady on Fire Review https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/14/port-m14.html 

https://aeon.co/videos/internet-pioneer-brewster-kahle-has-a-dream-universal-access-to-all-knowledge

“Total annihilation”: Coronavirus may just be the end for many alt-weeklies

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Deep Focus: “The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming”

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/14/nyts-m14.html

https://theconversation.com/why-are-there-so-few-coronavirus-cases-in-russia-and-africa-133591

Crowdstrike walks back role in Russiagate (Video)

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176676/tomgram%3A_adam_hochschild%2C_our_country_under_censorship/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-disinformation/russia-feeding-disinformation-about-coronavirus-to-sow-panic-in-west-eu-document

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/03/justice-department-drops-case-against-russian-influence-campaign-while-new-fake-claims-arise-1.html

Trending Now #123, 3.20-26.20

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In Theory: Simon Brown interviews Alexander Zevin about the World according to the Economist

Spike Lee Gifts Unmade ‘Jackie Robinson’ Script To Stay-At-Homers For Sunday Reading

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https://theconversation.com/vladimir-putins-two-decades-at-the-helm-have-remade-russia-and-its-place-in-the-world-133533

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fiona-hill-russia-advisor-president-trump-impeachment-lesley-stahl-60-minutes-2020-03-08/

Mr. Putin

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/03/23/russ-m23.html

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/stop-the-coronavirus-corporate-coup

Trending Now #124, 3.27-4.2.20

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https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/31/21201019/zoom-coronavirus-privacy-hacks

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/30/fake-news-coronavirus-false-information

https://forward.com/culture/442738/the-1918-marx-brothers-musical-stopped-short-by-the-spanish-flu/

Dr. Anthony Fauci Says Coronavirus Cure Claims By Netflix’s ‘Pandemic’ Doctor Is “Old Concept”

Pandemic Review        https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/01/pand-a01.html

It appears people staying at home all the time is bad news for podcasting

Newsonomics: What was once unthinkable is quickly becoming reality in the destruction of local news

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/coronavirus_data_journalism.php

https://portside.org/2020-03-29/fate-news-age-coronavirus

Trending Now #125, 4.3-9.20

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‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Talks Government’s Messy Treatment Of Essential Workers And Unemployed Impacted By Coronavirus

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/03/redd-a03.html

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/inside-david-bowie-s-final-years

How People in the Depression Managed to Laugh

How People in the Depression Managed to Laugh

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CIA/NSA/Russiagate+https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2020-04-15/massacre-at-samashki-and-us-response-to-russias-war-in-chechnya