Indigenous Peoples
Oglala Sioux Tribe is “Ready to Stand Against Foreign Intrusion” Native News Online
Coronavirus: South Dakota Sioux refuse to take down ‘illegal’ checkpoints BBC
Federal Court Upholds Ruling Blocking Construction of Keystone XL and Other Oil and Gas Pipelines Bold Nebraska
Federal Watchdog to Examine Official’s Role in Tribal Fund Distribution NYTimes
Contrary to Claims “Cuomo’s Order Actually Ends the Eviction Moratorium” Institute for Public Accuracy
Cargo ship sailors press-ganged into keeping the world’s trade afloat Guardian
CALL TO ACTION: Protect Palestinian-American researcher Ubai Aboudi from Israeli military detention NLG
US has only brought destruction to Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia: Analyst PressTV
Bill Dores, a writer for Struggle-La Lucha, made the comments in an interview with Press TV on Monday, after the US Navy has warned China to stop “bullying” foreign ships in the South China Sea as two American warships sailed into the midst of a dispute in the contested waterway near Chinese territorial waters.
Coronavirus
A Late-Breaking Bulletin From PBS: “For Many Americans, Health Insurance is Tied to a Job” CounterPunch
Passenger blasts United Airlines for yet another packed flight amid coronavirus New York Post
Capitalist crisis
Musk Reopens Tesla’s Plant, Dares Authorities to Arrest Him Bloomberg
The Real Unemployment Rate Is Worse Than Trump Will Tell Us Washington Monthly
Farms to kill 2 million chickens in MD, DE Macon Telegraph
Vermont Dairy Farmers Give Away 4,000 Gallons of Milk Seven Days Vermont
The debt dilemma Michael Roberts
In the current coronacrisis, the slump is accompanied by high global debt, both public, corporate and household. The Institute of International Finance, a trade body, estimates that global debt, both public and private, topped $255tn at the end of 2019. That is $87tn higher than at the onset of the 2008 crisis and it is undoubtedly going to be very much higher as a result of the pandemic. As Robert Armstrong of the FT put it: “the pandemic poses especially big economic hazards to companies with highly leveraged balance sheets, a group that now includes much of the corporate world. Yet the only viable short-term solution is to borrow more, to survive until the crisis passes. The result: companies will hit the next crisis with even more precarious debt piles.”
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