Hunger Strike at El Paso Processing Center, Texas
Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner, so the police punished him The Verge
New York City MTA’s Crackdown on Fare Evasion Is War on the Poor Teen Vogue
Iraq
US Embassy in Iraq evacuated amid angry protests over airstrikes PressTV
Pentagon Orders Over 100 Marines to Secure American Embassy in Iraq Newsweek
Trump threatens Iran after Baghdad embassy attacked AFP
France
French public on our side, says defiant union leader four weeks into strike France24
Board game exposing French wealth gap is an unexpected Christmas hit RFI
Chelsea Manning
Here Are Five Ways to Support Chelsea Manning in 2020 Truthout
UN Expert Calls Detention of Chelsea Manning ‘Open-Ended, Progressively Severe, Coercive Measure Amounting to Torture’ Common Dreams
How a Chase Bank Chairman Helped the Deposed Shah of Iran Enter the U.S. NYTimes
Afghanistan
WaPo’s Afghan Papers Propagate Colonial Narrative of Noble Intentions Gone Awry FAIR
Bolivia coup
Evo Morales Says He Is ‘Absolutely Convinced’ US Led Coup in Bolivia to Exploit Lithium Reserves Common Dreams
Bolivia coupistas expelling Mexican ambassador LATimes
Mexico’s Zapatistas host “Women Who Fight” gathering AP
China
Seventy Years of U.S. Destabilisation in China. U.S. Sponsored Uyghur Insurgency in Xinjiang Shane Quinn
Health care
Abandoned By Coal, Swallowed By Opioids? NBER
U.S. diabetes patients turn to ‘black market’ for medications, supplies Reuters
Industrial food-like products
How Crisco toppled lard—and made Americans believers in industrial food New Food Economy
Capitalism’s Failures Have Millennials Reconsidering Communism Truthdig
Class warfare
Janitors may walk-off job to end 2019 Amsterdam News
No New Talks As Asarco Strike Enters 12th Week LaborPress
Google Might Not Be a Good Place to Work After All MTD
Fired Google Workers To File Federal Labor Charges Against The Firm
USPS Could Privatize As Early As Next Year Fortune
Driver training was reportedly too much of “a bottleneck” for Amazon ars technica
Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network ProPublica
The Holidays Suck For Gig Workers Motherboard
Forecast 2020 Michael Roberts
Mainstream economic forecasts for 2020 are generally mildly optimistic. … Maybe these forecasts will prove to be right. But eventually, the fundamental factors of profits and investment must override the counteracting factors of low interest and unemployment. Profits rule investment and investment rules employment and income, and that rules spending. The fantasy world cannot continue much longer. 2020 may be the year that it collapses.
One of the CIA’s mass killers in Indonesia has died The Economist
Cops Proudly Brag About Terrorizing the Poor During Christmas with “Homeless Quilt”
Environment
It’s Not Just You—Wild Swings in Extreme Weather Are Rising Wired
Against Recycling Jacobin
How Oil Companies Avoided Environmental Accountability After 10.8 Million Gallons Spilled ProPublica
The World’s 500 Richest People Increased Their Wealth by $1.2 Trillion in 2019 New York magazine
Digital Divide: What It’s Like to Be a Student Without Internet at Home Teen Vogue
Why your cat is lousy at chess yet way smarter than even the most advanced AI NextWeb
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