American violence in the time of coronavirus High Country News
Author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz puts armed ‘reopen’ protests in their historical context.
The Coming Greater Depression of the 2020s Nouriel Roubini
You’re going to start having food riots soon enough. Look at the luxury stores in New York. They’ve either boarded them up or emptied their shelves, because they’re worried people are going to steal the Chanel bags. The few stores that are open, like my Whole Foods, have security guards both inside and outside. We are one step away from food riots. There are lines three miles long at food banks. That’s what’s happening in America. You’re telling me everything’s going to become normal in three months? That’s lunacy.
Labor
VIDEO: Ford Workers Shut Down the Line at Dearborn Truck Plant Labor Notes
Tesla employees fear unsafe conditions at factory, call it ‘modern-day sweatshop’ Electrek
Trump Condemned for Praising Noted Anti-Semite Henry Ford’s “Good Bloodlines” Truthout
Indigenous Peoples
ProPublica: Former Trump aide provided faulty masks to Indian Health Service Indianz
Leading National American Indian Organizations Call for Ouster of Indian Affairs Assistant Secretary Tara MacLean Sweeney Native News Online
China
Analyst: China’s security law for Hong Kong ‘not the business of Pompeo or the US PressTV
China in the post-pandemic 2020s Michael Roberts
The pandemic and lockdown had driven the Chinese economy into a severe contraction for several months, from which it is only just recovering. The economy contracted by 6.8 per cent in the first quarter and most forecasts for the whole year are for less than half of the 6.1 per cent growth rate posted last year. But even that figure would be way better than all the G7 economies in 2020.
Statement from The Lancet in response to President Donald Trump’s May 18 letter to Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization pic.twitter.com/JX8orfpMPB
— The Lancet (@TheLancet) May 19, 2020
Coronavirus
Chinese researchers confident about developing a highly effective treatment this year MSN
77 Nobel Laureates Denounce Trump Officials For Pulling Coronavirus Research Grant NPR
Trump launches historic Virus Rights Movement, will ‘override governors’ on churches reopening BBC
Trump’s Food Aid Program Gives Little Funding to the Northeast, Where Coronavirus Hit Hardest ProPublica
Capitalist crisis
U.S. war drive
Trump administration discussed conducting first U.S. nuclear test in decades Washington Post
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