If a fetus is a person, it should get child support, due process and citizenship Washington Post
Labor
As Thousands of Taxi Drivers Were Trapped in Loans, Top Officials Counted the Money NYTimes
Trump’s NLRB Rules That Uber Drivers Cannot Unionize Labor411
She served an $8 school lunch to a teen who couldn’t pay. Then she was fired — for ‘theft’. Washington Post
A Major Coal Company Went Bust. Its Bankruptcy Filing Shows That It Was Funding Climate Change Denialism. The Intercept
Fire danger could force SF blackout, PG&E says San Francisco Chronicle
A Transgender Woman Who Was Attacked in Dallas Last Month Has Been Found Dead NYTimes
What the hell is a “Consensual Rape”?
Chelsea Manning
‘This Is Unprecedented’: Judge Orders Chelsea Manning Jailed, Imposes Daily $500 Fine After 30 Days Behind Bars Common Dreams
Venezuela
Venezuela: Amnesty International in Service of Empire RiseUpTimes
India: another China or another Brazil? Michael Roberts
98.3% of Ghana’s Gold Remains in the Hands of Multinational Corporations Common Dreams
Iran
Corporate Media Setting Up Iran as New ‘Threat’ That Must Be Confronted Common Dreams
Spain pulls its frigate from US military build-up in Gulf France24
Beijing Backs Iran, “Firmly Opposes” Unilateral US Sanctions Zerohedge
On The Cusp Of War: Why Iran Won’t Fold OilPrice
China
Propaganda Intensifies Trade War With China Moon of Alabama
The U.S. Has a Fleet of 300 Electric Buses. China Has 421,000 Bloomberg
Merkel Says Postwar Order Over, Calls on Europe to Unite in Face of US Sputnik
Hedge Fund Billionaires Were Democrats’ Main Bankrollers in 2018 Truthout
A New Diet Study Confirms Your Worst Suspicions About Ultra-Processed Foods Gizmodo
Hydropower’s Dangerous Bid To Re-cast Itself As ‘Green’ International Business Times
What longer paternity leave did for men in Spain TreeHugger
Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’ The Independent
Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War
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