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Dr. Bandy X. Lee: Donald Trump’s Malignant Narcissism Key Factor in Federal Government’s Failed Pandemic Response; Greg Palast: With In-Person Voting Deemed Hazardous, Extreme Caution is Urged in Move to Mail-In Ballots; Faith Spotted Eagle: Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Opponents Demand a Halt to Keystone XL Pipeline Construction; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

What would it look like to call corporate media’s bluff on their sudden, serious respect for working people who didn’t start being important until a contagious disease is going around? Also: Why no focus on, among other things, devastating economic sanctions on Venezuela and Iran, ensuring that they will have a harder time protecting their citizens from the pandemic?

Super-scientist Kevin Trenberth on record ocean warming: impacts now and for centuries to come.

Larry Brilliant became a key participant in eliminating that 10,000-year-old disease that killed half a billion people in the 20th century alone. Smallpox was declared eradicated in 1980. On March 24, 2020, Larry Brilliant was interviewed by Dr. Daniel Kraft, Chair for Medicine, Singularity University.

In February, a federal lawsuit filed in Washington, DC, by 13 Palestinian and American activists accuses President Donald Trump and his Middle East adviser Jared Kushner of violating Palestinian civil and human rights. Also named in the suit are Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; Miriam Adelson, the wife of billionaire settler financier Sheldon Adelson; Israeli lobby group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC); and 13 others. The action targets Trump’s “Deal of the Century,” along with laws introduced in 28 American states that illegally deny Americans the right to boycott Israel.