Confirmation Hearings Exposed Barrett as a Hardcore Rightwing Activist Bill Blum
A Third Of The Decade’s Most Deadliest Mass Shootings Were Motivated By White Supremacy, Study Finds Blavity
I Was in the Room Where It Happened: One Woman’s Perspective on “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Nancy Kurshan
Indigenous Peoples
Tohono O’Odham Condemns Use of Tear Gas at Border Wall on Protesters Native News Online
#COVID-19
Spike in South Korea flu shot deaths fuels vaccine doubts Al Jazeera
A Glimmer of Hope: Mortality Rate Is Improving for Hospitalized COVID Patients TruthOut
As Covid-19 intensifies, shortages of staple drugs may grow worse Stat
The EPA Refuses to Reduce Pollutants Linked to Coronavirus Deaths ProPublica
Prisoners Won The Right To Stimulus Checks. Some Prisons Are Standing In The Way. Marshall Project
Capitalist crisis
If the poorest Americans are selling their blood, the US is in serious trouble Arwa Mahdawi
The Fed Did a Lot of Talking Yesterday about a Big Bank Failure: Should We Worry? Wall Street on Parade
COVID and the trade-off Michael Roberts
Countries that had invested heavily in good health systems, applied effective test and tracing and yes, early lockdowns, have saved lives AND reduced the damaging economic impact of the pandemic (they are the countries in the top left of the graph below – [Vietnam and China]).
Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad Idea FAIR
U.S. retailers secure stores as worries about election unrest mount Reuters
USPS still hasn’t reversed election mail slowdown despite multiple court orders: attorneys general Salon
Bolivia
Bolivia: The Unity of an Organized People in Opposition to the Right-Wing Reactionary Program Resumen
The Bolivian people broke all barriers to vote in hope Peoples Digest
Bolivia: Right Wing Protests Against MAS Victory Begin Internationalist 360°
Colombia
8,000 Colombians march to Bogotá demanding to meet with president Duque Peoples Dispatch
Venezuela
Trump Envoy Grenell Tried to Secretly Negotiate Maduro Exit Bloomberg
Revealed: UK Foreign Office has spent nearly half a million pounds in aid setting up anti-government coalition in Venezuela Daily Maverick
Latin America
Protests Against Greed and Inequality Are Spreading Like Wildfire Through Latin America MPN
Iron Curtain still separates Russia and the EU Asia Times
Karl Marx’s Debt to People of African Descent Review of African Political Economy
In this blogpost, Biko Agozino argues that Karl Marx was among the few European theorists of his time who did not try to conceal his ‘debt’ to Africa but celebrated such knowledge as foundational. Agozino shows how people of African descent were central to the theory, practice and writings of Marx. Marxism is not a Eurocentric ideology.
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