(2021-05-24). On How there is no Restaurant Worker Shortage, only a Shortage of Safe Jobs with Adequate Pay. juancole.com From the earliest days of the Pandemic relief initiatives business lobbies and conservative pundits have griped about the $600 Federal Unemployment Insurance supplement. They complained that combined state and federal programs would give many employed workers more income than they received in their current jobs. Workers would have an incentive to stay home to sit …
(2021-05-24). Boeing donates $50 million to Virginia Tech University's "Innovation Campus" wsws.org The donation is the largest in the university's history and was announced as part of an effort to focus on "diversity."
(2021-05-24). Weapons of War on Our Streets: The Militarization of America's Police. globalresearch.ca The claim often …
(2021-05-24). Family Offices: Trillion Dollar Pools of Unregulated Capital You Haven't Heard About. counterpunch.org Don't be surprised if you haven't heard of a family office as they fly below the radar. I explore the role of family offices in the larger "wealth defense industry" in my new book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions (Polity Books). And Kalena Thomhave and I make the case for
(2021-05-24). In Working-Class NJ Town, Activists Push to Invest in Community, Not Police. zcomm.org Abolitionists are confronting racial capitalism and policing in…
(2021-05-23). Drones Rain Over Yemen: Saudi-Led Coalition Lost Second UCAV In A Week. southfront.org 
Illustrative image, source: the Houthis media wing | On May 22, the Houthis (as Ansar Allah is known) announced that their air-defense forces had shot down a combat drone of the Saudi-led coalition, the second in less than a week. | In a statement, a spokesman for the Yemeni group said that the drone, a Chinese-made CH-4, was shot down over al-Maraziq in the northern Yemeni province of al-Jawf. According to the spokesman, the drone was targeted with a "new ground-to-air missile" that has not been unveiled yet. | "We rei…
(2021-05-23). Mysterious Drone Strikes Destroyed Several Hangars In Syria's Deir Ezzor — Report. southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | On May 23 morning, unidentified combat drones carried out a series of strikes on the outskirts of the town of al-Bukamal in southern Deir Ezzor. The government-held town is located right on the border with Iraq. | According to the Naher Media, a local pro-opposition news blog, the strikes destroyed a number of newly-built hangars in al-Hamdan desert. The strikes didn't result in any human losses. | Liwa Fatemiyoun and Liwa Zainebiyoun, Afghan and Pakistani armed groups supported by the Iranian Islamic Re…
(2021-05-23). What is a solidarity economy — and can it save us from capitalism? zcomm.org "Mutual aid has to exist because our other systems are so deeply failing us."