3 Muslim Workers at Amazon File Federal Discrimination Complaint NYTimes
Officer punched Oscar Grant and lied about facts in 2009 killing, records show Guardian
Trump Trade Tweets Send Grain Markets Diving to 42-Year Low Bloomberg
Cuban “troops” saving lives in Venezuela Granma
Chelsea Manning says she’ll never testify, seeks release AP
The Reason Renewables Can’t Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To Forbes
No amount of marketing could change the poor physics of resource-intensive and land-intensive renewables. Solar farms take 450 times more land than nuclear plants, and wind farms take 700 times more land than natural gas wells, to produce the same amount of energy.
A war is brewing over lithium mining at the edge of Death Valley LATimes
Sure, Unemployment Went Down – Because More People Left The Workforce Forbes
Trump May Redefine Poverty, Cutting Americans From Welfare Rolls Bloomberg
The White House Is Planning a Backdoor Travel Ban on Trump’s “S—thole Countries” Slate
May 9th: ‘Victory of the Red Army, comprised of the Soviet people’
Peterloo Counterpunch
In St Peter’s Field in Manchester, U.K., on 16 August two hundred years ago there is a massacre. The class struggle is in the open. The ruling class of landlords, merchants, bankers, and factory owners are arrayed against a working class of handworkers, factory workers, plantation workers, home workers, ship and sail workers, and workers without work. Surveying the carnage afterwards a clever journalist came up with the equation: Waterloo + St Peter’s Field = Peterloo.
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