‘Things are Getting Real’: NYC Teachers Union Prepares for Strike Authorization Votes The City
How the nation’s athletes set off tremors when they showed us their unprecedented power to effect change Boston Globe
Fact check: Jacob Blake did not ‘brandish’ knife, get gun before Kenosha police shooting USA Today
Federal agents sent to Kenosha, but history shows militarized policing in cities can escalate violence and trigger conflict The Conversation
A ‘Scary’ Show Of Force: D.C. Police Ramp Up Aggressive Tactics After March On Washington DCist
Capitalist crisis
Second Wave of Layoffs Is Here, Now Hitting Well-Paid Jobs Wolf Street
Agricultural Workers Lose Millions of Dollars Each Year to Employer Wage Theft In These Times
Palestine
Dozens of Palestinian Patients Suffocate as Israeli Forces Attack Hospital in Hebron (VIDEO) Palestine Chroncle
Indigenous Peoples
Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte ‘The Most Bombed Nation on Earth’ Al Jazeera
More than 900 nuclear tests were conducted on Shoshone territory in the US. Residents still live with the consequences.
Africa
US military conducts 46 airstrikes in Somalia in 2020 Somali Affairs
Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic. NYTimes
Faced with plunging profits and a climate crisis that threatens fossil fuels, the industry is demanding a trade deal that weakens Kenya’s rules on plastics and on imports of American trash.
China
China Just Called Trump’s Bluff on TikTok Bloomberg
Imagine a bidder wanting to buy KFC, but being told the deal might not include the Colonel’s 11 secret herbs and spices. That’s effectively what Beijing has told the list of U.S. companies keen to purchase short-video app TikTok: The key ingredients may be out of reach.
China warns of ‘accidental’ military confrontation with US PressTV
The US nuclear stockpile is 20 times bigger than China’s and is readily accessible by 400 US Army bases encircling China – the world knows which superpower wants to reignite a Cold War struggle… https://t.co/l6iIGqHZ5a pic.twitter.com/AloH8XE6yQ
— Chris Hazzard (@ChrisHazzardSF) August 30, 2020
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