Labor
‘We’re modern slaves’: How meat plant workers became the new frontline in Covid-19 war Guardian
Immigrants Making PPE Strike After a Co-Worker Dies of COVID PayDay Report
Anti-Union Operative Warns Business Of Historic Rise In Labor Activism Intercept
Dozens of Oak Park nursing home workers ready to strike
Health care workers protest over unsafe working conditions
Teamsters Stand Up Against Coca-Cola After It Tells Employees To Remove Masks
‘Essential’ farmworkers face slashed hours even as food demand soars Grist
Jobless
States Made It Harder to Get Jobless Benefits. Now That’s Hard to Undo. NYTimes
Study: 71 percent of jobless Americans didn’t receive March unemployment benefits Vox
Venezuela
Ex-Green Beret led failed attempt to oust Venezuela’s Maduro AP
Coronavirus
‘It feels like nobody cares’: the Americans living without running water amid Covid-19 Guardian
The other death toll from the coronavirus pandemic Al Jazeera
The police are harassing, beating and even killing people while enforcing COVID-19 lockdowns across the world.
Climate change
Stopping Deforestation Can Prevent Pandemics Scientific American
Destroying habitats makes viruses and other pathogens more likely to infect humans
The Biomass Fiasco Counterpunch
New Michael Moore-Backed Documentary On YouTube Reveals Massive Ecological Impacts Of Renewables Michael Shellenberger
Why “Planet of the Humans,” Michael Moore’s new film about green energy, is so controversial Salon
Capitalist crisis
Dirty money piling up in L.A. as coronavirus cripples international money laundering LATimes
Military spending in 2019 hits highest increase in a decade NoC
COVID-19 Is Worsening a Housing Crisis That Started Long Before the Virus Truthout
Ellen Brown: Coronavirus Proves Capitalism Has Always Been a Lie
NASA selects Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to design moon landers for 2024 mission dezeen
China
Chinese state media releases animated propaganda video mocking US coronavirus response – nicely done
VA orders $300,000 worth of body bags Politico
A Life and Death Battle: 4 Days of Kidney Failure but No Dialysis NYTimes
Biden camp refuses to open up Senate papers that could shed light on accuser’s claims Business Insider
If Trump is a Pathological Liar, What Type of Liar is Biden? CounterPunch
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