Videos: California Wildfires Rage Across State, Tens of Thousands Forced to Evacuate Sputnik
California severely short on firefighting crews after COVID-19 lockdown at prison camps SacBee
Wildfires spreading through Native American lands in California Censored News
Postal Service
Mail-order chicks are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars Press Herald
A Maine farmer went to pick up 800 baby chicks from the U.S. Postal Service. They were all dead. The USPS has been delivering chicks since 1918, but now…
Milwaukee-Area Letter Carriers Are Refusing to Go Along with Mail Delays Labor Notes
Coronavirus
Young people are primary coronavirus spreaders, WHO warns NationOfChange
NYC Teachers Prepared To Strike If Schools Aren’t Safe To Reopen, Union Head Says Gothamist
Nearly 40% of cash-strapped Americans can’t last a month on savings CNBC
The Untold Story of the Black Marines Charged With Mutiny at Sea NYTimes
Trump floated swapping Puerto Rico for Greenland because ‘the people were poor’ and ‘dirty’ in Puerto Rico, according to former DHS chief of staff Business Insider
Indigenous Peoples
The Indigenous American and the Pandemic Era Internationalist 360°
Iran
Iran sanctions: Trump threatens to unilaterally reimpose UN measures Guardian
China
Anti-China Hysteria Drives Record 2021 U.S. Defense Spending Progressive International
Why China Isn’t Capitalist (Despite the Pink Ferraris) Richard Smith
There’s no private property in China. Mao abolished private property in 1956 and it’s never been restored
Climate change
California Reveals That the Transition to Renewable Energy Isn’t So Simple Slate
Honey better treatment for coughs and colds than antibiotics, study claims Guardian
Estimated cost of recent epidemics/pandemics:
SARS (2003) – $40 billion
H5N1 (2006) – $40 billion
H1N1 (2009) – $45 billion
Ebola (2014) – $55 billion
COVID-19 (2020) – $8.8 TRILLIONInvesting in public health preparedness is FAR cheaper than the economic impact of a pandemic.
— Dr. Tom Frieden (@DrTomFrieden) August 19, 2020
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