The US and EU vs. Belarus: Pot, Kettle, Black
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-25
On May 23, a fighter jet intercepted Ryanair Flight 4978 as it was about to exit Belarus's airspace en route from Athens, Greece to Vilnius, Lithuania. Citing a supposed bomb threat (apparently contrived by regime agents on board the plane), Belarus air traffic control ordered the Boeing 737 to turn around and land in Minsk.
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Becoming Black: a conversation with Olúfémi Táíwà≤ and Achille Mbembe
Joris Leverink | roarmag.org | 2021-05-25
Protester facing police at a Black Lives Matter protest in London, UK — June 6, 2020. Photo: Viktor Kadiri / Shutterstock.com | The Movement for Black Lives not only exposed the brutality of US policing, it has stimulated conversations on systemic racism and coercive state power everywhere. For the tenth edition of its flagship State of Power report, the Transnational Institute has brought together two brilliant thinkers on racial capitalism today. | Achille Mbembe is a groundbreaking philosopher, whose many books since the mid 1980s…
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Bolivia — Seis frentes desestabilizadores al gobierno del MAS
Eduardo Paz Rada | globalizacion.ca | 2021-05-25
Cuando el gobierno del presidente Luis Arce del Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) cumple seis meses con acciones para enfrentar las crisis sanitaria, económica y social, después de once meses de gobierno de facto como efecto de un golpe de estado,…
globalizacion.ca/bolivia-seis-frentes-desestabilizadores-al-gobierno-del-mas/
All the questions socialists have about China but were too afraid to ask
Editorial Team | challenge-magazine.org | 2021-05-24
Alexander Norton interviews Keith Lamb on how China's self-proclaimed socialist system measures up to the expectations of a Western socialist expat from Scotland who has lived through almost two decades of drastic change in the world's emerging superpower | In the 1990s and 2000s conventional Western wisdom was that China had long abandoned socialism. But by 2018, when president Xi Jinping lauded Marx as the greatest thinker of modern times at the closing speech of a 2-week celebration of his 200th anniversary and reaffirmed China's commitment to his vision of communism, many on the left — and the right…
challenge-magazine.org/2021/05/24/all-the-questions-socialists-have-about-china-but-were-too-afraid-to-ask/
Intro to Abolition
priscilla | dsausa.org | 2021-05-24
RSVP Here What is abolition? Why should socialists care about abolition? Join the Abolition Working Group on June 3rd at 8 pm EST for an introductory call that answers these questions on why this work matters, how socialism and abolition go hand in hand, and how you can plug your chapter in going forward. Abolition…
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On How there is no Restaurant Worker Shortage, only a Shortage of Safe Jobs with Adequate Pay
John Buell | juancole.com | 2021-05-24
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 …
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Weapons of War on Our Streets: The Militarization of America's Police
Sam Jacobs | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-24
The claim often …
globalresearch.ca/weapons-war-streets-guide-militarization-america-police/5746000
Activists force shutdown of Israeli weapons factory in UK
Mohamed Elmaazi | electronicintifada.net | 2021-05-24
Police still not able to coax activists down after six days, local fire brigade declares support…
electronicintifada.net/content/activists-force-shutdown-israeli-weapons-factory-uk/33221
Another Turkish Officer Killed In Iraqi Kurdistan
Anonymous103 | southfront.org | 2021-05-24
Click to see full-size image | On May 24, the Turkish Defense Ministry reported that a 25-year-old serviceman of the Turkish Armed Forces had died during the operation in northern Iraq. He was injured during the landing and died of wounds in the hospital. | The same day, the Turkish Defense Ministry has published a video of the elimination of four Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters in the Iraqi province of Dakuk. According to the Turkish special services, two pickup trucks loaded with weapons, which…
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Advocates Hail Ruling Striking Down 'Unconstitutional' Georgia Anti-BDS Law
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-05-24
"This ruling comes at a crucial moment, when millions of Americans are questioning the use of U.S.-provided weapons in the onslaught against the Palestinian people," said PCJF counsel Mara Verheyden-Hilliard. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/bds-2600×1300.jpg …
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Family Offices: Trillion Dollar Pools of Unregulated Capital You Haven't Heard About
Chuck Collins | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-24
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…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/24/family-offices-trillion-dollar-pools-of-unregulated-capital-you-havent-heard-about/
In Working-Class NJ Town, Activists Push to Invest in Community, Not Police
George Ygarza | zcomm.org | 2021-05-24
Abolitionists are confronting racial capitalism and policing in…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/in-working-class-nj-town-activists-push-to-invest-in-community-not-police/
Boeing donates $50 million to Virginia Tech University's "Innovation Campus"
wsws.org | 2021-05-24
The donation is the largest in the university's history and was announced as part of an effort to focus on "diversity."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/05/24/tech-m24.html
Patriarchy Is as Cunning as Capitalism
Internationalist 360 ∞ | libya360.wordpress.com | 2021-05-24
Raúl Cazal and Alba Carosio Alba Carosio has been a feminist activist since the 1960s. She practices a feminism committed to popular struggles and to the poorest and most excluded women. Nevertheless, she is aware that her reach was limited, until Hugo Chávez became President of the Republic: Women's struggles for their rights pre-existed the… Read…
libya360.wordpress.com/2021/05/24/patriarchy-is-as-cunning-as-capitalism/
Economic Update: Rise and Fall of Labor and Capitalism
Joris Leverink | roarmag.org | 2021-05-24
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff discusses Congress bills H.R.51 giving statehood to Washington, DC, and H.R.1 countering GOP efforts to restrict voting; and Biden's tax reforms to help pay for new and expanded government programs. | In the second half of the program, Wolff interviews Prof. Michael Hillard on the role of labor in the dramatic rise and fall of Maine's paper industry, a parable for the economic difficulties facing the US today. | You can support this show on Patreon…
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