Saturday’s news links – Oct. 9, 2021

Texas law banning abortions after 6 weeks is back in effect, circuit court says Business Insider

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge. ProPublica

DEA Went Undercover to Infiltrate a Vigil for George Floyd Gizmodo

Five Ways To Support The Kellogg Strike Labor 411

‘That’s Progress’: Month After Federal Unemployment Program Ended Was Worst for Job Growth of 2021 Sputnik

Indigenous peoples

Indigenous people take over a pipeline station in the Peruvian Amazon Peoples Dispatch

Venezuela

‘Crimes Against Humanity’: Venezuela’s VP Says US ‘Blocked’ $5 Billion COVID-19 Loan from IMF Sputnik

The Ship That Became a Bomb New Yorker

Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a million barrels of oil aboard. If—or when—it explodes or sinks, thousands may die.

China

China warns United States over news reports that American forces are stationed in Taiwan Washington Post

Afghanistan

How the ‘self licking ice cream cone,’ prolonged the 20-year war  Gareth Porter

Imperialism troubles

Biden signs ‘Havana Syndrome’ law, Berlin police report new ‘cases’ blamed on mystery weapons scientists say don’t exist RT

NATO Crisis and the Making of European Defense Force NEO

Western Europe May Not Weather the Winter Without Russian Gas Sputnik

Italian sailors knew of America 150 years before Christopher Columbus, new analysis of ancient documents suggests PhysOrg

A Company Family: The Untold History of Obama and the CIA CovertAction Magazine

iPhone Apps No Better For Privacy Than Android, Oxford Study Finds Tom’s Guide

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