Time to Break the Silence on Palestine Michelle Alexander
Labor
We Work for the Federal Government and It’s Time to Strike Anonymous
Tunisian civil servants take to the streets against austerity regime PeoplesDispatch
The Radical Organizing That Paved the Way for LA’s Teachers’ Strike The Nation
Women
Turning the Women’s March Into a Mass Movement Was Never Going to Be Simple Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
1,400 Miles of Abortion Restrictions The Intercept
Imperialism and global politics
Trump Administration Backs Slow-Motion Right-Wing Coup In Venezuela Shadowproof
What is NATO’s New Mission in Iraq? NEO
U.S. Steps Up Rhetoric Over [Russian] Nord Stream 2 Pipeline [to Germany] Oilprice.com
Trump cancels U.S. delegation to Davos forum Reuters
Fight racism
Since Decriminalization, 96% of People Arrested for Weed in Baltimore Are Black RNN
Michigan Poor People’s Campaign activists receive trial date following protest arrests Daily Kos
Capitalist crisis
Shutdown’s Economic Damage Starts to Pile Up, Threatening an End to Growth NYTimes
My speech on driverless cars at the Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, 15/1/19 Christian Wolmar – Tulip mania?
“The spending on the development of autonomous vehicles is quite unprecedented. I am not sure in the history of transport whether so much has been spent on a single concept. We’ve had railway booms, and explosions of road building but nothing on this scale.”
New York Confronts Its Worst Measles Outbreak in Decades NYTimes
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