US states begin eliminating unemployment aid even as nearly half a million jobless claims were filed last week
wsws.org | 2021-05-21
Over 20 states have vowed to end the meager $300-a-week federal jobless benefit while millions remain out of work and an average of 600 people succumb each day to COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/21/unem-m21.html

5/19/21 Call Congress to support AOC's Reso to Stop Weapons for Israel
Not One Nickel, Not One Dime | indybay.org | 2021-05-20
Now that we have protested, it is time to call Congress. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has introduced a resolution to stop the sale of weapons to Israel. See www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/19/ocasio-cortez-unveils-resolution-block-bidens-735-million-weapons-sale-israel There is no cease fire. Israel continues to bomb Gaza. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ex6SdT3N6g…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/19/18842648.php

Qui Bono? Understanding Israel's Latest Assault on Gaza
Phyllis Bennis | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-20
"Both sides need to de-escalate." "No one benefits from this. " You'll hear a lot of statements like that from pundits, elected officials, government spokespeople, and mainstream media anytime there's violence in Israel-Palestine. In the last few days, Israeli war planes, armed drones, and artillery mounted on tanks have killed more than 119 Palestinians in…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/20/qui-bono-understanding-israels-latest-assault-on-gaza/

Palestine solidarity demonstrations witnessed across Europe
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-20
Amid the escalation in Israeli attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and Jerusalem, massive protests have been called across the world to demand that Israel stop its crimes and to show solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Across Europe progressive organizations demanded that their governments stop supporting Israel with funds and weapons and put pressure on it to cease its crimes. | On May 16, Palestine solidarity demonstrations were held in the Belgian cities of Antwerp, Ghent, Verviers, Genk and Hasselt, among others. The mobilizations saw the participation of activists of the Workers Party of Belgium (PTB/PVD…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/20/palestine-solidarity-demonstrations-witnessed-across-europe/

Angela Davis and Noura Erakat Mourn Murdered Palestinians and Demand US Action
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-05-20
On Sunday, many Arab, Muslim and Palestinian communities boycotted President Biden's virtual Eid celebration. We play a statement of solidarity from legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis on Sunday for "Eid with Palestine: A Protest of the White House Eid Event." Davis also co-wrote piece for The Nation with our guest Noura Erakat about how Erakat's 26-year-old cousin Ahmad Erekat was shot by Israeli occupation forces after his car appeared to have accidentally crashed into a booth at a c…
truthout.org/video/angela-davis-and-noura-erakat-mourn-murdered-palestinians-and-demand-us-action/

Angela Davis & Noura Erakat on Palestinian Solidarity, Gaza & Israel's Killing of Ahmad Erekat
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-05-20
On Sunday, many Arab, Muslim and Palestinian communities boycotted President Biden's virtual Eid celebration. We play a statement of solidarity from legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis on Sunday for "Eid with Palestine: A Protest of the White House Eid Event." Davis also co-wrote piece for The Nation with our guest Noura Erakat about how Erakat's 26-year-old cousin Ahmad Erekat was shot by Israeli occupation forces after his car appeared to have accidentally crashed into a booth at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank while he was on the way to pick up his mother and sister on her wedding day. Erakat sa…
www.democracynow.org/2021/5/20/palestinian_solidarity_ahmad_erekat

Colombian Police Crack Down On Protests With Long-Range Weapons
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-20
Colombians on Wednesday denounced that the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) cracked down on peaceful protests with long and short-range weapons. | RELATED: | Colombians Rekindle Their National Strike Amid State Terrorism | Videos posted on social networks show agents shooting at farmers in Bucaramanga. According to witnesses, at least 25 protesters were wounded. | In Caucasia, dozens of children, pregnant women, and elderly people had to take refuge from police brutality in La No…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombian-Police-Crack-Down-On-Protests-With-Long-range-Weapons-20210520-0001.html

American Arms Makers Are Making a Killing Off of Israel's Slaughter in Gaza
Jessica Buxbaum | mintpressnews.com | 2021-05-20
Major arms and aircraft manufacturers — Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon — are reaping massive profits from Israel's assault on Gaza, and all are expected to see their earnings boom with the quarter-billion-dollar arms deal the Biden administration is trying to push through.
mintpressnews.com/us-weapon-makers-profits-armssales-israel-gaza/277257/

Shock and stress for Gaza's children
Hamza Abu Eltarabesh | electronicintifada.net | 2021-05-20
Israel is again killing Palestinians with US weapons.
electronicintifada.net/content/shock-and-stress-gazas-children/33151

Opposition mounts to US arms sales to Israel
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-05-20
Several US congresspersons and rights groups have objected to the Joe Biden government's decision to sell weapons worth USD 735 million to Israel, citing continued violations of human rights in Gaza and other occupied Palestinian territories…
peoplesdispatch.org/2021/05/20/opposition-mounts-to-us-arms-sales-to-israel/

"Today we are Nazis," says member of Israeli Jewish extremist group
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-20
In screenshots from the groups posted by Fake Reporter, members talked about types of weapons and made plans for where to meet up in order to attack Palestinians and burn mosques. They engaged in virulent racism and incitement against Palestinians. | The messages were released in the context of recent attacks by extremist Jewish Israelis on Palestinians, their homes and businesses as Israel escalated its attacks on the occupied West Bank and Gaza over the last week.
popularresistance.org/today-we-are-nazis-says-member-of-israeli-jewish-extremist-group/

Roof Knocking in Gaza and the Myth of the Benevolent Drone
Brian Terrell | warisacrime.org | 2021-05-20
May 20, 2021 In its deadly attacks in densely populated Gaza, the Israeli Defense Force is employing a technique they call "roof knocking." First drones fire small missiles without warheads on a residential building, intended only to shake the building before armed missiles destroy it minutes later. The IDF calls these "warning shots" and they … Continue reading "Roof Knocking in Gaza and the Myth of the Benevolent Drone"
warisacrime.org/2021/05/20/roof-knocking-in-gaza/

"Roof Knocking" in Gaza and the Myth of the Benevolent Drone
Brian Terrell | commondreams.org | 2021-05-20
"Those who use and profit from drones can wash their hands of the horror and bask in their stated good intentions, but the people who are targeted know them as tools of racism, terror and repression." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/israeli_drone-1.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2021/05/20/roof-knocking-gaza-and-myth-benevolent-drone?cd-origin=rss

Police Brutality Leaves 43 Citizens Killed in Colombia
telesurenglish.net | 2021-05-20
The Institute for Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ) reported that 43 Colombians have died as a result of the actions that the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) and the Armed Forces have deployed to stop protests against President Ivan Duque. | RELATED: | Colombian Police Crack Down On Protests With Long-Range Weapons | Four of these murders were clearly recorded on video. This is the case of Nicolas Garcia, Marcelo Agredo, Santiago Murillo, and Brayan Niño, whose deaths inv…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Police-Brutality-Death-Toll-Climbs-To-51-Amid-Protests-20210520-0006.html

The U.S. Must Stop Providing Weapons Used to Repress Colombia's Protests
commondreams.org | 2021-05-20
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commondreams.org/newswire/2021/05/20/us-must-stop-providing-weapons-used-repress-colombias-protests?cd-origin=rss

Karl Marx's Theory of Exploitation
The Socialist Program | liberationnews.org | 2021-05-20
Brian and Prof. Wolff discuss the theory of surplus value. Why do Marxists believe that anyone who works for a wage is being stolen from by their boss?>…
liberationnews.org/karl-marxs-theory-of-exploitation/

United Action to Keep Workers Down
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-20
Just six percent of private sector workers belong to a union in the US, but that doesn't mean we're short of united action on our economy. For weeks now, employers and their lobbies have been unified in their lament that a scarcity of workers is the result of overly generous federal unemployment benefits. People would…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/20/united-action-to-keep-workers-down/

Biden Must End Sanctions Against North Korea — and Finally End the Korean War
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-05-20
Noam Chomsky recently argued that the Biden administration's foreign policy remains committed to maintaining U.S. global hegemony through sanctions and nuclear weapons. Nowhere else in the world is this more evident than in the Korean Peninsula, where the U.S. is pressuring its "ally" South Korea into the front lines of a long-simmering confrontation with China, and where a…
truthout.org/articles/biden-must-end-sanctions-against-north-korea-and-finally-end-the-korean-war/

Sinai Insurgency: ISIS Cells Shelled Egyptian Army Post With Mortars (Photos)
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-20
Illustrative image | On May 18, ISIS cells in the Sinai Peninsula shelled a post of the Egyptian military near the al-Ajra checkpoint, to the east of the city of al-Arish, with mortars. | The terrorist group's news agency, Amaq, shared photos of the attack, in which a total of five mortar shells were fired at the military post. The terrorists in Sinai rarely use heavy weapons like mortars in their attacks. | According to Amaq claims, a number of Egyptian service members wer…
southfront.org/sinai-insurgency-isis-cells-shelled-egyptian-army-post-with-mortars-photos/

How America Went from "Mom-and-Pop" Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-20
The crisis of …
globalresearch.ca/how-america-went-from-mom-pop-capitalism-techno-feudalism/5745779

China beats USA by following Western classical economics!
Chris Kanthan | nationofchange.org | 2021-05-20
America must acknowledge its systemic problems and implement structural reforms that curtail financial capitalism and embrace smart industrial policies.
nationofchange.org/2021/05/20/china-beats-usa-by-following-western-classical-economics/

The real mission to Mars
Michael Dawson | mronline.org | 2021-05-20
Apparently–and entirely predictably–low-Earth-orbit is now firmly within the widening tides of corporate capitalism's great waste ocean. | May 20, 2021 | Newswire…
mronline.org/2021/05/20/the-real-mission-to-mars/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-real-mission-to-mars

Cal Senators Feinstein & Padilla Not on Ceasefire for Palestine List
Not One Nickel, Not One Dime | indybay.org | 2021-05-19
We now have a list of senators calling for a ceasefire in Palestine as the dead Palestinians now number 212 and over 1200 wounded with weapons paid for with our tax dollars. Despite thousands of Californians demanding an end to the genocide of Palestinians at protests on May 15, 2021, Senators Feinstein and Padilla are not on the list. See www.ossoff.senate.gov/press-releases/sen-ossoff-leads-28-senators-urging-immediate-ceasefire-in-middle-east/…
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/17/18842595.php

Gaza conflict: no matter how powerful Israel's military becomes it still can't win
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-05-19
By Paul Rogers | — Israel is the most powerful state in the Middle East. Its military forces may not match the likes of Egypt or Turkey in numbers, but the might of its training, equipment, technologies and nuclear weapons make it unassailable. Given its long-developed capabilities in public order control, such a position should …
juancole.com/2021/05/conflict-powerful-military.html

Service Workers Aren't Returning to Work Because They Don't Get Paid Enough
Kandist Mallett | zcomm.org | 2021-05-19
"Our pre-pandemic lives are not sustainable. They weren't good for our health or this planet. Let's evolve past capitalism, past working our lives away, past destroying the planet for profit's sake."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/service-workers-arent-returning-to-work-because-they-dont-get-paid-enough/

The Labour Party has a role to play in the socialist movement, Starmer does not
Editorial Team | challenge-magazine.org | 2021-05-19
Daniel Roantree argues that the Labour Party's recent loss in England hurts everyone on Britain's road to socialism. | We Communists do not rejoice when we see Labour being dragged down by the right wing of the party. The left wing movement in Britain is inextricably linked to the Labour Party, and as socialists it's not good practice for us to celebrate the demise or defeat of continues to be the mass party of the labour and trade union movement. | Such an attitude is an ultra-leftist tendency that we must avoid. Were the Labour Party to collapse, left wing politics would be wiped from the view of the British…
challenge-magazine.org/2021/05/19/the-labour-party-has-a-role-to-play-in-the-socialist-movement-starmer-does-not/

Arms trade: Which countries and companies are selling weapons to Israel?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-19
Israel's military arsenal is also propped up by imports of billions of dollars worth of weapons from abroad. The United States, which has exported weapons to Israel every year since 1961, is by far Israel's biggest weapons supplier. These are the countries and companies supplying Israel with weapons, despite its track record of war crimes accusations.
popularresistance.org/arms-trade-which-countries-and-companies-are-selling-weapons-to-israel/

Arms trade: Which countries and companies are selling weapons to Israel?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-19
Israel's military arsenal is also propped up by imports of billions of dollars worth of weapons from abroad. The United States, which has exported weapons to Israel every year since 1961, is by far Israel's biggest weapons supplier. These are the countries and companies supplying Israel with weapons, despite its track record of war crimes accusations.
popularresistance.org/arms-trade-which-countries-and-companies-are-selling-weapons-to-israel/

Mysterious Drones Attacked Turkey's Diyarbakir Air Base (Photos)
Anonymous669 | southfront.org | 2021-05-19
Illustrative image. A PKK fighter with a modified X-UAV. | Early on May 19, two unidentified drones attacked an air base in the southern Turkish province of Diyarbakir, which is located near the border with Syria. | On Twitter, Turkey's Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, claimed that the attack had foiled. According to him, the drones were shot down."There is no damage whatsoever," the minister said without providing any further details on the incident. | Local sources in Diyarbakir reported a number of explosions near th…
southfront.org/mysterious-drones-attacked-turkeys-diyarbakir-air-base-photos/

Arms Trade: Which Countries and Companies Are Selling Weapons to Israel?
Frank Andrews | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-19
For over a …
globalresearch.ca/arms-trade-which-countries-companies-selling-weapons-israel/5745688

How America Went From Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-05-19
The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and what can be done?
popularresistance.org/how-america-went-from-mom-and-pop-capitalism-to-techno-feudalism/

What should a CEO earn?
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2021-05-19
Capitalism is not economics. It is cronyism.
nationofchange.org/2021/05/18/what-should-a-ceo-earn/

Decolonization and Communism
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-19
By Nodrada — May 18, 2021 | "We have to give life to Indo-American socialism with our own reality, in our own language. Here is a mission worthy of a new generation." | — José Carlos Mariátegui, "Anniversary and Balance," José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology π | While the turn towards analyzing ongoing settler-colonialism has finally reached the mainstream of North American political discussions, there is still a lack of popular understanding of the issues involved. Settler-colonialism is, ironically, understood within the framework of the ways of thinking brought by the European ruling classes to t…
orinocotribune.com/decolonization-and-communism/

Mayo Clinic Q&A podcast: Signs of depression in teens and how to help
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2021-05-19
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/

Two Pilots Killed In Yak-130 Plane Crash In Belarus
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-05-19
Illustrative image. Source: airliners.net | A military aircraft crashed during the training flight near Baranovichy, in the south-western region of Belarus. According to the report of the Defence Ministry, both pilots died as a result of the accident. | The Yak-130 aircraft flew from the Lidskaya assault air base. According to the primary reports, the accident was caused by a technical malfunction."Having shown courage and heroism, the pilots tried to take the plane away from the settlement. After ensuring that the traject…
southfront.org/two-pilots-killed-in-yak-130-plane-crash-in-belarus/

The Most Colossal Planning Failure in Human History
Richard Heinberg | commondreams.org | 2021-05-19
"Without planning, this is what will most likely happen: we'll fail to produce enough renewable energy to power society at the level at which we want it to operate. So, we'll continue to get most of our energy from fossil fuels—until we can't, due to depletion. Then, as the economy crashes and the planet heats, the full impacts of our planning failure will finally hit home." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/oilrig.jpg …
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Business Lobby Created "Labor Shortage" Myth That GOP Used to Slash Benefits
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-05-19
Earlier this month, the Department of Labor released a less-than-stellar jobs report that sent politicians, economists and leaders in corporate America scrambling for answers. That report details an approximate 71% drop in job growth paired with a slight hike in unemployment, falling far below analyst expectations of a month-over-month boom. This prompt…
truthout.org/articles/business-lobby-created-labor-shortage-myth-that-gop-used-to-slash-benefits/