Coronavirus
87% of the thousands of meatpacking workers diagnosed with COVID-19 are Hispanic, Black, or Asian Business Insider
Texas Has Two Deadliest Days in a Row With Nearly 100 New Deaths Wednesday Newsweek
Trump’s Tulsa rally ‘likely’ source of virus surge MPR News
If you’re over 75, catching covid-19 can be like playing Russian roulette MIT Technology Review
Mounting Evidence Suggests Coronavirus is Airborne—but Health Advice Has Not Caught Up Scientific American
Buccaneers coach says his players will ‘all get sick’ when NFL returns Houston Chronicle
Minneapolis PD Trained Officers to Use the Neck Restraint That Killed George Floyd: Docs Daily Beast
Sean Monterrosa: body-camera video raises fresh questions about police killing Guardian
Vauhxx Booker: black activist details ‘attempted lynching’ by group of white men in Indiana – video Guardian
New York AG: Black protesters were disproportionately charged with felonies TheHill
White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity NPR
Call It White Supremacy Charles M. Blow
Discovery of Frederick Douglass letter sheds light on contested Lincoln statue Guardian
Notes Toward a More Global History of Capitalism Spectre Journal
Reading Marx’s Capital In India And China
Nine out of 10 Americans say racism and police brutality are problems, poll finds Guardian
Democratic Candidate James Averhart Personally Oversaw Solitary Confinement of Chelsea Manning MPN
Labor
Workers fight back as hotels try to lay off staff and hire on the cheap Guardian
The Story Behind the Lee Statue in Richmond, Virginia The Progressive
It was built to help crush a biracial workers’ movement.
China
The Fallacy of Denouncing ‘Both Sides’ Of The U.S.-China Conflict Qiao Collective
US military presence in the South China Sea reveals the farce of this "rivalry." When China runs military exercises off its own coast, it's "aggressive" and "imperialist." When the US does the same—halfway across the globe—it's somehow justified. https://t.co/Bq9WtDGWao
— Qiao Collective (@qiaocollective) July 9, 2020
Afghanistan
How the Pentagon failed to sell Afghan government’s bunk ‘Bountygate’ story to US intelligence agencies Gareth Porter
Vietnam
The Tremendous but ‘Secret’ Success of Socialist Vietnam Andre Vltchek
Capitalist crisis
Evictions loom large as Pa. renter relief program stumbles, lacks Spanish-language application Inquirer
Retail Apocalypse Accelerates – 8,700 Stores Closing, Number Set To Rise
I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing NYTimes
Why do American cities waste so much space on cars?
Statue of Melania Trump set on fire in Slovenia TheHill
Rookie RV Drivers Jam America’s Roads—Watch Out WSJ
First-time owners, dodging Covid restrictions, hit the highway but struggle to maneuver the large rigs; ‘that can’t be good’
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