Links – June 19, 2019

Juneteenth – Emancipation Day – June 19

Danny Glover, Ta-Nehisi Coates to Finally Discuss Reparations During House Hearing on Juneteenth The Root

Here’s Why Megan Rapinoe Is Protesting During The National Anthem At The World Cup HuffPost

Trump vows mass immigration arrests, removals of ‘millions of illegal aliens’ starting next week Washington Post

Work Requirements Will Deny Medicaid to People With Disabilities Hmm

Indigenous Peoples

U.S. Tribes Decry Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Approval EarthJustice

‘Army’ of RCMP to Protect Pipeline, but No Answers on Indigenous Woman’s Death The Tyee

This Land Is Whose Land? Indian Country and the Shortcomings of Settler Protest Folklife

Indians Of All Tribes Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of Alcatraz Takeover NativeNewsOnline.net

Economy

Strikes in the Long Depression Michael Roberts

Still No Minimum Wage Bill– Not Because Of Trump Or McTurtle– Because Of Pelosi And Hoyer And Their Blue Dogs Down With Tryranny

The One Percent Have Gotten $21 Trillion Richer Since 1989. The Bottom 50% Have Gotten Poorer. NewYork

Manufacturing is falling fast and hard Axios

New York’s ugly June manufacturing survey Axios

The June reading of the Empire State Manufacturing Index, a regional survey of manufacturing industry business owners by the New York Fed, was quite bad. The headline reading was -8.6, down from 17.8 the month before, the largest monthly decline ever recorded.

Global Bond Yields Are Crashing(er) Zerohedge

Pentagon Has Emitted Over a Billion Metric Tons of Greenhouse Gases in Its War on Terror Shadowproof

CENTCOM: MQ-9 Reaper shot down over Yemen last week Military Times

‘Raytheon in, Boeing out’ as acting SecDef Shanahan withdraws from Pentagon RT

Iran

Report: US Planning “Massive” Airstrike On An Iranian Facility Caitlin Johnstone

U.N. Officials: U.S. Planning a “Tactical Assault” in Iran Jerusalem Post

Officials Worldwide Are Skeptical of Claim that Iran Attacked Tankers In Gulf of Oman George Washington

EU warns against blaming Iran for oil tanker attacks DW

‘Wagging the Dog’ While Lying About It Strategic Culture

Venezuela

Study Linking US Sanctions to Venezuelan Deaths Buried by Reuters for Over a Month FAIR

Palestine

The Promised Land Economics of Imperialism

Palestine really was the Promised Land. So much so that it was promised to three different groups within a couple of years. The promises were made by British imperialism … What made the promises remarkable was that they were about a land which, at the time, the British neither possessed nor controlled.

Chile’s Chuquicamata copper mine operations halved amid strike: Codelco Reuters

Navy Contaminates Local Groundwater and Sewer System in Maryland Truthout

Gender, Race, And A Militarized Okinawa: Interview With Akemi Johnson LobeLog

Korea

China president’s North Korea visit to send strong message to US PressTV

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