Throughout Trial Over George Floyd’s Death, Killings by Police Mount NYTimes
Since testimony in Derek Chauvin’s trial began on March 29, more than three people a day have died at the hands of law enforcement.
Study indicates the Jan. 6 riots were motivated by racism and white resentment, not ‘election theft’ Daily Kos
US West prepares for possible 1st water shortage declaration AP
Indigenous Peoples
The Apache war against copper mining: ‘this is an act of desecration’ — video
Amazon
Inside the Alabama Amazon Union Drive: An Interview with the Lead Organizer Labor Notes
#COVID19
Who Owns Vaccines? The Baffler
India
US navy in Lakshadweep: Gunboat diplomacy masquerading as freedom of navigation Prabir Purkayastha, Peoples Dispatch
The Narendra Modi government mistakenly believed a FONOP in the South China Sea has no implications for India. As the US operation in India’s EEZ makes clear, it owns the seas and will brook no competition from any country
India’s health system has collapsed Hindustan Times
Sikhs in America: A religious community long misunderstood is mourning deaths in Indianapolis mass shooting The Conversation
Cuba
What the Imperialists cannot forgive – Fidel Castro’s speech in advance of the Bay of Pigs invasion
Afghanistan
Contrary to What Biden Said, U.S. Warfare in Afghanistan is Set to Continue Counterpunch
Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One Glenn Greenwald, Substack
That Russia placed “bounties” on the heads of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan was one of the most-discussed and consequential news stories of 2020. It was also, as it turns out, one of the most baseless — as the intelligence agencies who spread it through their media spokespeople now admit, largely because the tale has fulfilled and outlived its purpose.
The roaring twenties repeated? Michael Roberts
So can the Roaring Twenties of the last century after the Spanish flu epidemic be repeated in this century after COVID? Will there be a new lease of life for the major capitalist economies that ends the ‘secular stagnation’ (Keynesian) or the Long Depression (Marxist) of the last decade since 2010?
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