Is There Really A Truck Driver Shortage? NPR
It’s not a labor shortage, it’s a wage shortage Pitchfork Economics
Hospitality Workers Struggle to Find Reliable, Affordable Ways Home Washington City Paper
Airline Caterer Uses Pandemic to Strip Seniority from Laid Off Workers Labor Press
There is no justification for cutting federal unemployment benefits Economic Policy Institute
Most executives say they want more contract and temp workers. A majority of those workers say that’s not good enough. Business Insider
Extreme heat drives ‘high risk’ summer for U.S. power, especially in California Reuters
Report: US Police Have Killed 1068 People Since Floyd’s Death teleSUR
Surprise! Upgrading America’s Nuclear Arsenal Will Be Stupefyingly Expensive Popular Mechanics
#COVID19
Battling behind the scenes: US pressuring WHO on coronavirus origins tracing Global Times
US owes the world an explanation on Fort Detrick lab secrets: Chinese FM Global Times
Palestine
Irish Government to vote on motion to expel Israeli Ambassador Irish Central
Bolivia
US: Interim Bolivia official took bribes in tear gas deal AP
34 candidates assassinated ahead of parliamentary and subnational elections in Mexico Peoples Dispatch
Ukraine
Ukraine’s Got a Real Problem with Far-Right Violence (And No, RT Didn’t Write This Headline) Atlantic Council
US-funded Belarusian regime-change activist arrested on plane joined neo-Nazis in Ukraine Ben Norton
Roman Protasevich – Arrested In Belarus – Is A Western Government Financed Neo-Nazi MoA
Ethiopia
US Moves against Ethiopia and Eritrea: Atrocities Alleged, Sanctions Imposed Internationalist 360°
Mali
Once again, Mali seems to be a “French Vietnam” InfoBRICS
China
Did China Just End Extreme Poverty? Aaron Bastani
Not entirely, but it’s virtually the only country to have made any progress.
The pandemic saved the fast food industry Experience Magazine
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