Coronavirus
“Beds Not Bodybags”: Activists Warn Hospital Closures Make NYC Vulnerable To Another COVID Wave Gothamist
‘Everyone tested positive’: Covid devastates agriculture workers in California’s heartland Guardian
Forty percent of U.S. Covid-19 tests come back too late to be clinically meaningful, data show CNBC
“All These Rich People Can’t Stop Themselves”: The Luxe Quarantine Lives of Silicon Valley’s Elite Vanity Fair
Big Pharma’s Covid-19 Profiteers Rolling Stone
The U.S. is far behind other rich countries in coronavirus response Axios
Climate crisis: Two million Californians went dark Countercurrents
Black People Arming to Confront Racist Violence Fighting Words
A Brief History Of Political Interference In The U.S. Postal Service NPR
Death Valley soars to 130 degrees, potentially Earth’s highest temperature since at least 1931 MSN
Capitalist crisis
A flood of job losses looms as airline industry struggles in pandemic CNBC
The $24 an Hour Minimum Wage CEPR
This means that if the minimum wage had kept pace with productivity growth it would be over $24 an hour today. Furthermore, if we go out four years to 2024, and we see normal inflation and productivity growth, a productivity adjusted minimum wage in that year would be almost $27 an hour, nearly twice the $15 an hour target.
Germany’s biggest union calls for 4-day week to save jobs DW
Cory Doctorow: ‘Self-Driving Cars are Bullshit’
Venezuela
President Trump Says Stolen Iranian Fuel Sent to Houston Dave DeCamp
Palestine
As UAE celebrates “peace,” Israel escalates bombing, collective punishment of two million Palestinians besieged in Gaza Electronic Intifada
China
US Navy carrier conducts exercises in South China Sea amid rising tensions ABC Australia
[A] controversy was sparked recently by an American alternative news website that accused Kern of adopting a fictitious identity as an ethnic Chinese grass roots activist as a “deceptive ploy” to “disseminate anti-China propaganda”.
Chinese President Xi Jinping says Marxist political economy is the bedrock for nation’s growth SCMP
The ‘dominant position of public ownership cannot be shaken’, general secretary of Chinese Communist Party says
Xi’s article on Marxist political economy in contemporary China to be published Monthly Review
Connecting the Dots: Iran, China, and the Challenge to U.S. Hegemony Qiao Collective
Belarus
Belarus: Who benefits from the protests?
Belarus opposition copies Ukrainian ‘reform package’ to appeal to Western capital
August 12-22, 1945: Washington Starts the Korean and Vietnam Wars H. Bruce Franklin, Counterpunch
Bolivia: Esther Morales, Evo’s Older Sister, Passes Away teleSUR
From the Archive | Part two: Marxism and African liberation New Frame
In this second of a two-part series, Guyanese historian and activist Walter Rodney argues that the theory of scientific socialism can and should be used in the African context.
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