Starbucks faces union test as worker votes are counted AP
Want to be a criminal in America? Stealing billions is your best bet to go scot-free Guardian
MLB misuses Clemente’s image in their locking out of the Players’ Union Payday Report
#COVID19
Where Are the Damn PCR Tests Already? It’s Been 21 Months! Truthout
City Hall Withheld COVID Neighborhood Death Data During NYC’s 2020 Pandemic Peak, Emails Show The City
Where Is Biden In The Global War On Omicron? Daily Poster
The administration has ways it could share vaccine information with the world — but it refuses to do so.
Not guilty: Palestine Action acquitted in first trial Electronic Intifada
Three activists who defaced an Israeli drone engines factory in the UK were found not guilty of criminal damage on Monday.
Russia
Russia Delivers Protest Note To US Embassy Warning “Dangerous Consequences” For Border “Provocations” Tyler Durden
Russia hands note of protest to US warning of consequences of US, NATO provocations TASS
Ukraine
US to deliver small arms and ammunition to Ukraine amid Russian tensions, Pentagon says Stars and Stripes
Iran
Amid talks to revive nuclear deal, US imposes fresh sanctions on Iranian entities and officials Peoples Dispatch
Venezuela
Venezuela: Guaidó Increasingly Isolated as UN Recognizes Maduro Gov’t in ‘Resounding’ Vote José Luis Granados Ceja
China
Carlos Martinez: the Summit for Democracy is just another excuse for China-bashing
China Condemns US Attempt To Disrupt Beijing Olympics teleSUR
What will be the casus belli for war with China? Peter Van Buren
From the sinking of the Maine to Saddam’s WMDs, there’s usually a ginned-up event behind every destructive US war.
World inequality Michael Roberts
Indeed, the share of income presently captured by the poorest half of the world’s people is about half what it was in 1820, before the great divergence between western countries and their colonies. In other words, the rise of imperialism as the ‘latest stage’ of capitalism has delivered increased inequality of income globally. The personal income share of the poorest 50% of the world’s adults or around 3bn people is half what it was in 1820! So much for even and combined development after 200 years of capitalism.
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