Heroic Oakland community strikes and occupies elementary school to prevent closures ZNet
Officer who killed Tamir Rice quits after outcry over his hiring by small town Guardian
Most Americans have concerns about being displaced by extreme weather, poll says TheHill
#COVID19
Widely Used Hospital Gowns Show Signs of Exposing Workers to Infection KHN
‘Headed in a bad direction’: Omicron variant may bring second-largest US Covid wave Guardian
Capitalist crisis
Corporate billionaires are wrecking the supply chain. Just look at the railroads. Real News
Commercial banks make higher profits when interest rates rise Bill Mitchell
The One Commodity That Won’t Stop Soaring OilPrice
While crude oil and other commodity prices have plunged in the past week amid growing fears of recession and less liquid markets in the summer, one commodity is bucking the trend and continuing to rise—European natural gas.
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Australian activists fight for ancient rock art phys.org
Britain
The Death of the British Imperial State Craig Murray
U.S./NATO war drive
U.S. forces involved in at least 23 proxy wars across the world, new documents suggest MR Online
How the Pentagon uses a secretive program to wage proxy wars Al Mayadeen
Reaching the Greater New York audience with common sense on Ukraine Gilbert Doctorow
Live interviews like this are always a challenge. Inevitably you do not get across every argument you prepared in advance. In my mental review of our chat, I have one regret. Though I had requested to be asked about how the Kiev regime can be fascist when its president, Zelensky, is a Jew, I did not give the most relevant answer to that question when we spoke: namely the celebration of the SS-collaborator Bandera by the ultra-nationalists running the show through Zelensky as their front man.
China
U.S. accused of engaging in ‘technological terrorism’ ECNS
The Next American Warzone: South China Sea Mitchell Dunkin
Biden’s Reckless New Provocation Ratchets Up Risk of Nuclear War with China CovertAction
Japan
Japan’s Kishida steps on Russian oil slick M. K. Bhadrakumar
A Feminist, Neorealist, Communist Film, and a Plain Great Movie NYTimes
“One Way or Another,” from 1974, is a class-conscious love story involving a macho worker and a well-to-do schoolteacher in Cuba.
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