Labor
General Motors Fired Five Mexican Workers For Aiding the U.S. Auto Strike Vice
South Korean GM Workers Send Solidarity to Striking GM Workers in the U.S. Left Voice
LGBTQ2S
I’m Demanding Justice at Saturday’s Trans Visibility March Advocate
AMA declares epidemic as 18 transgender people killed this year Axios
Three white boys held down a black girl at Karen Pence’s school & cut her hair LGBTQ Nation
ICE arrests more than 80 immigrants over 5 days on LI, NYC Newsday
Haiti
Haiti, Imperialism and the War Against Petrocaribe Lautaro Rivara
Haitians back on the streets in anti-government protests Prensa Latina
Venezuela
The Diplomatic Simulation of Venezuela’s Right in New York Marco Teruggi
US Gives Guaido $52 Million in Funding, Slaps Venezuela With New Sanctions Venezuela Analysis
Hong Kong
Hong Kong: The Treaty of Nanjing Returns Manlio Dinucci
Egypt
Nearly 2,000 arrested as Egypt braces for anti-Sisi protests Al Jazeera
10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined Counterpunch
Stocks tumble as US-China tensions escalate Business Insider
A rent-seeking economy? Michael Roberts
In the past, this blog has posted overwhelming empirical evidence that the key to understanding the movement in productive investment remains in the underlying profitability of capital, not in the extraction of rents by a few market leaders, as Wolf and others suggest. If that is right, the Keynesian/mainstream solution of regulation and/or the break-up of monopolies (even if it were politically possible) will not solve the regular and recurrent crises in production and investment or stop rising inequality of wealth and income.
The Fetishization of Employer-Provided Health Care New Republic
Democrats continue to entrench their support for a health care system in which class warfare is a pre-existing condition.
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