National Reparations Day celebrated in NYC Amsterdam News
White House formally declaring teachers essential workers CNN
Trump administration brands educators “critical infrastructure workers” to force schools to open.
Postal service
USPS Headquarters Tells Managers Not to Reconnect Mail Sorting Machines, Emails Show Vice
Postmaster general eyes aggressive changes at Postal Service after election Washington Post
USPS Policy: JP Morgan Chase in Talks with USPS to Provide Banking Services in U,S, Post Offices Capitol Forum
Man says he bought New Hampshire postal sorting machine in auction, but wasn’t allowed to take it WCVB
How Dairy Monopolies Keep Milk Off the Shelves INET
The Fortune Global 500 is now more Chinese than American Fortune
Economists foresee an unemployment “tsunami” coming Axios
Biden
Biden Campaign Attacks Palestinian American Activist Linda Sarsour over Israel Boycott Democracy Now
Nina Turner on Harris as VP: ‘Salute the history’ but ‘Wall Street has the ticket they want’ The Hill
A Marxist theory of inflation Michael Roberts
California
‘My God, we’ve got nobody’: Strained firefighters struggle to stop Bay Area wildfires Mercury-News
Wildfire Smoke Shrouds the U.S. West Earth Observatory
Coronavirus
Cloth masks do protect the wearer – breathing in less coronavirus means you get less sick The Conversation
Study adds to evidence that cells in the nose are key entry point for SARS CoV-2 Science Daily
Progress report on the coronavirus pandemic Nature
Hospitals still suing patients in coronavirus hotspots Axios
Bolivia
Will There Ever be Elections Again in Bolivia? Counterpunch
Colombia
The tragic assassination of Colombia’s sports hero Patrón, lover of football and his Afro-Colombian community Vijay Prashad and Zoe PC
Iran
Pompeo triggers start of Iran sanctions ‘snapback’ at UN Barron’s
‘This is different’: Protests in Minsk and pogroms in Paris
A Rush is On to Mine the Seabed, But the Effects are Unknown The Maritime Executive
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