U.S. Covid Cases Are Rising Again, Reversing Months of Progress Bloomberg
U.S. COVID response could have avoided hundreds of thousands of deaths: research Reuters
Amazon
Amazon Denies Workers Pee in Bottles. Here Are the Pee Bottles. Vice
Amazon Exec’s Snarky Tweets At Bernie Sanders Backfire HuffPost
After Dave Clark defended the behemoth’s labor practices, Twitter users responded by sharing articles about how Amazon treats its workers.
Georgia Rep. Charged With Felonies for Knocking on Kemp’s Door as He Signed Voter Suppression Bill Common Dreams
“This is straight out of Jim Crow.”
The US military is poisoning communities across the US with toxic chemicals Guardian
‘I’ve Been Targeted With Probably the Most Vicious Corporate Counterattack in American History’ Esquire
An interview with Steven Donziger, the lawyer put under house arrest by an evidently biased U.S. judge for representing indigenous people in Ecuador against Chevron.
Suez Canal
Ships Turn Toward Africa on Concerns Suez Blockage to Last Weeks Bloomberg
Venezuela
Venezuela Denounces Freezing of Its Assets for Acquiring COVID-19 Vaccines Resumen
Argentina
Argentina withdraws from Lima Group and condemns blockade of Venezuela Peoples Dispatch
The US Knew All About the 1976 Coup Plot in Argentina teleSUR
China
Taiwan says it’s now making long-range missile capable of striking China RT
China issues plan to encourage new types of consumption Xinhua
H&M Store Closed in Xinjiang Amid Backlash Against Boycott of Local Cotton, Report Says Sputnik
Indigenous Peoples
Red Fawn: I’m Home and Ready To Keep Fighting
Opinion: Stop using ‘surge’ and ‘wave’ to describe what’s happening at the border Julio Ricardo Varela, Washington Post
A flood. A wave. A surge.
What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border is none of those things, but you wouldn’t know it from watching or reading some of the coverage in U.S. media.
Covering the Atlanta massacre from inside the Korean community Columbia Journalism Review
Elon Musk tweet –
You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin
Henry Manice, Financial Times, tweet –
Why not cut out the middleman and install a petrol engine?
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