[Perspectives] A call to arms to change capitalism
Joseph Stiglitz | thelancet.com | 2021-05-15
In Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, Mariana Mazzucato captures…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01004-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Signs of depression in teens and how to help
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-05-15
Depression is a serious mental health problem that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest in activities. Although depression can occur at any time in life, symptoms may differ between teens and adults. Issues such as peer pressure, academic expectations and changing bodies can bring a lot of ups and downs for …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-signs-of-depression-in-teens-and-how-to-help/

Houthi calls on Saudis to bomb Israel regime instead of Yemen
Staff | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-05-15
TEHRAN, May 15 (MNA) — The head of the Houthi Supreme Revolutionary Committee stressed that Saudi Arabia should stop bombing and invading Yemen and do so against the Zionist regime, which is bombing Palestine.
en.mehrnews.com/news/173455/Houthi-calls-on-Saudis-to-bomb-Israel-regime-instead-of-Yemen

How Capitalism Drives Cancel Culture
Helen Lewis | zcomm.org | 2021-05-14
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-capitalism-drives-cancel-culture/

Richard Wright's new novel 'The Man Who Lived Underground' surfaces
Patrick Chura | peoplesworld.org | 2021-05-14
Each Richard Wright novel in one way or another bears the imprint of his formative affiliation with the communist movement. His newly published The Man Who Lived Underground, a work that subverts capitalism by exposing its cruel distortions of humanity, is no exception. Wright completed The Man Who Lived Underground in December 1941. The first …
peoplesworld.org/article/richard-wrights-new-novel-the-man-who-lived-underground-surfaces/

Sussex Police: serving Capitalism locally
Editorial Team | challenge-magazine.org | 2021-05-14
Brighton and East Sussex Branch, Young Communist League | YCL Brighton & East Sussex Branch expose the longstanding and institutional racism, sexism and brutality of Sussex Police. | On Saturday 13th March YCL members attended the Sarah Everard vigil along with 150 other people held at Valley Gardens. Mirroring the events at the vigil held in Clapham Common the same day, multiple police vans pulled up and officers began trying to disperse the crowd. Shocking footage was posted on social media showing police harassing and threatening members of the public. Despite the event proceeding safely and peacefully pr…
challenge-magazine.org/2021/05/14/sussex-police-serving-capitalism-locally/

Pandemia, capitalismo, politización y economicismo
Eduardo Camín | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-14
El horizonte del tiempo atrae, pero también amenaza. Sólo donde hay una amenaza futura surge la aspiración al poder. Algo de todo esto sucede de forma soslayada, con la pandemia de la Covid 19 y la creación de la vacuna….
globalizacion.ca/pandemia-capitalismo-politizacion-y-economicismo/

Capitalism and Fascism
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-14
The revolutionary nature of capitalism goes far in explaining the political turmoil of recent years. Neoliberalism destroys social networks when it destroys economic relationships. Decades ago, autoworkers in Michigan and peasant farmers in Chiapas were faced with figuring out how to get by after their livelihoods were taken away. A fundamental question emerged: how was…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/14/capitalism-and-fascism/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Signs of depression in teens and how to help
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-05-14
Depression is a serious mental health problem that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest in activities. Although depression can occur at any time in life, symptoms may differ between teens and adults. Issues such as peer pressure, academic expectations and changing bodies can bring a lot of ups and downs for …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-qa-podcast-signs-of-depression-in-teens-and-how-to-help/

The Economic Recovery Is Mostly Benefitting White Families
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-05-14
The United States is slowly emerging from the COVID-19 economic recession. The unemployment rate has dropped by more than half. People are spending more money now than they did before the pandemic began. Families are paying off their credit card debt again. | Yet these milestones mask an uncomfortable truth: The economic rec…
truthout.org/articles/the-economic-recovery-is-mostly-benefitting-white-families/

2-passenger plane crashes in east Tehran
Staff | en.mehrnews.com | 2021-05-14
TEHRAN, May 14 (MNA) — A two-seater plane crashed in eastern Tehran on Friday morning.
en.mehrnews.com/news/173427/2-passenger-plane-crashes-in-east-Tehran

Biden's Decisions This Year Will Determine US Nuclear Weapons Policy for Decades
Mark Muhich | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-14
Nuclear weapons policies and the trillions of U.S. dollars proposed to fund them come into sharp focus this month and through next year as Congress and the Biden Administration engage the nuclear weapons threat. A threat viewed as existential by bombmakers, presidents, and arms control activists since the first nuclear weapons were detonated over Hiroshima…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/14/bidens-decisions-this-year-will-determine-us-nuclear-weapons-policy-for-decades/