Daily Archives: June 17, 2021

2021-06-17: News Headlines

Editor2 (2021-06-18). 'They're Trying to Kill Assange Because he Spoke the Truth': Roger Waters Calls on Biden to End 'Disgusting' Sham Prosecution. orinocotribune.com With the brother and father of the jailed WikiLeaks co-founder on a US tour to raise awareness of Julian Assange's plight, legendary Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters challenged Joe Biden to end the journalist's prosecution. | Assange's father John Shipton and brother Gabriel are traveling across the US this month to press the Biden administration to drop its charges, and highlight the threat to worldwide press freedom this prosecution poses. Joining them in New York this week was Roger Waters, who told RT on Friday why he's fighting for Assange. | "He is being held up as an example: Keep your mouth shut or this w…

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-18). Putin Heaps Praise on Biden After Summit. news.antiwar.com Russian President Vladimir Putin The summit Back in Moscow on Thursday, Pu…

WSWS (2021-06-18). New York mayoral candidates hold final debate before June 22 Democratic primary. wsws.org Not one of the Democrats addressed the right-wing record of the de Blasio administration, nor were they asked.

Juan Cole (2021-06-17). Not only Should Congress repeal 2002 Authorization for use of Force in Iraq, it should Apologize for that Pack of Lies. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Jacob Pramuk at CNBC reports that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the Biden White House are backing an attempt to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force that allowed the Bush administration to launch the Iraq War. The repeal is driven in part by the Trump …

Gerald E. Scorse (2021-06-17). Nobody Dodges Taxes Like the Super-Rich. dissidentvoice.org President Biden's big plans for America rest in part on his plans to pay for them by raising taxes on the rich. He wants the top marginal rate restored to 39.6%. He wants households making more than $1 million a year to pay the same rates on capital gains as regular people pay on income …

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-06-17). NATO Has Been Called Greatest Threat to World Peace—Now Biden Plans Dangerous Expansion That Will Increase Military Spending and Escalate the Risk of War. covertactionmagazine.com Biden calls support for NATO a "sacred obligation" as he raises false alarms about alleged military threats from Russia and China.

Richard Javad Heydarian (2021-06-17). Biden's China Policy Gets ASEAN Cold Shoulder. asia-pacificresearch.com

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-17). Treasury Secretary Says US to Decouple From China in Some Areas. news.antiwar.com Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday that she expects Like other Biden officials,

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-17). US Ambassador to UN Wants to Fight Against China 'Every Step of the Way'. news.antiwar.com President Biden's ambassador to the UN on Wednesday "They exert enormous influence in the United Nations, and it's malign … influence that promotes an authoritarian approach to multilateralism," Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "We need to fight that every step of the way." | Thomas-Greenfield said the US is regularly addressing China's alleged human rights abuses agains…

Andy Kroll (2021-06-17). America Is Stabbing Itself in the Back. tomdispatch.com Americans may already be lying themselves out of what little remains of their democracy. The big lie uniting and motivating today's Republicans is, of course, that Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, won the 2020 presidential election. Other big lies in our recent past include the notion that climate change is nothing but a Chinese hoax, that Russia was responsible for Hillary Clinton's electoral defeat in 2016, and that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was necessary because that country's leader, Saddam Hussein, had something to do with the 9/11 attacks (he didn't!) and possessed weapons of mass destruction that could be u…

Teresa Gutierrez (2021-06-17). Kamala Harris goes to Central America ‚àí and so does Wall St. workers.org In 1973, Eduardo Galeano wrote what was then a groundbreaking book, "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent." Galeano carefully detailed and beautifully summarized how colonialism and then capitalism, specifically U.S. capitalism, overtook the Americas by chicanery and force to rob and plunder the . . . |

John Wojcik (2021-06-17). Republicans lose again: Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, 7 to 2. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge by red states to Obamacare, preserving health insurance coverage for many millions of Americans. Barely able to control his delight, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain immediately tweeted: "It's still a Big F—ing Deal," referencing then-Vice President Biden's 2009 remarks when the Affordable Care Act was first …

Rebecca Gordon (2021-06-17). Social Security Versus National Security. counterpunch.org These days my conversations with friends about the new administration go something like this: "Biden's doing better than I thought he would." "Yeah. Vaccinations, infrastructure, acknowledging racism in policing. A lot of pieces of the Green New Deal, without calling it that. The child subsidies. It's kind of amazing." "But on the military—" "Yeah, same

Jeff Bryant (2021-06-17). The Triumph of Community Schools. progressive.org Biden's support suggests an end to government policies that blame teachers for low test scores.

_____ (2021-06-17). Putin-Biden Summit 'Seems Thin'. popularresistance.org The results of the Putin-Biden summit today in Geneva seem to be thin. The meetings were expected to last for 4 to 5 hours but ended after little more than 2 hours. | During his press conference President Vladimir Putin said that the talks were constructive. He lauded Biden as very experienced politician and said that they had two hours of face time. | There were a few results: | The ambassadors of both sides, who had been recalled from Washington and Moscow, will return to their posts. | There will be new expert rounds about cybersecurity. | There may be talks about an exchange of prisoners. | There will be new…

_____ (2021-06-17). Biden's Buffoonish War on Extremism. strategic-culture.org By James BOVARD | The Biden administration

Andrew Korybko (2021-06-17). The Putin-Biden Summit: A Mutual Will to Improve US-Russia Relations? globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at

WSWS (2021-06-17). US seeks to ease tensions at Biden-Putin summit, as anti-China drive escalates. wsws.org Against the backdrop of the intensifying US-led war drive against China, Washington appears to be trying to ease tensions with the Kremlin in an effort to isolate Beijing.

Staff (2021-06-17). Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz Suggest FBI Attacked Capitol. truthout.org The evolution — or devolution, if you will — of the right's January 6 narrative continues apace, but is steering toward strange waters. When it happened, it was deemed an appalling attack against the very fabric of democracy … but Donald Trump didn't like that, because the attackers were his people, and so the story began to change. It was antifa! Black Lives Matter protesters! No, that didn't stick. Wait, they were peaceful tourists! See how they stay within the ropes as they…

Fight Back (2021-06-17). Tallahassee vigil commemorates lives lost in Pulse Nightclub Massacre. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – On the early morning of June 12, 2016, gunman Omar Mateen shot dozens of people at Pulse Nightclub, murdering 49 people and injuring more than 50. Five years later, on the evening of June 12, 2021, Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) along with 926, Gender Odyssey, and Students for a Democratic Society, congregated at the Florida Capitol for a vigil to commemorate the lost lives of the Pulse Nightclub Massacre. | Speakers took to the mic to say the names of all 49 victims who died, followed by a moment of silence. They also spoke out against politicians for the homophobic and transpho…

Elie Mystal (2021-06-17). The Democrats Are Failing Dreamers, Failing Immigrants. thenation.com The Democrats Are Failing Dreamers, Failing Immigrants…

_____ (2021-06-17). Israel on the Defensive: Congressmen Demonstrate Their True Allegiance. strategic-culture.org Ilhan Omar was right on all points, but still she had to surrender to the force majeure of Israel and its host of allies in the U.S. Congress. | It is interesting to observe that the many atrocities carried out by Israel and its surrogates in Lebanon and Palestine through the years, which have killed thousands of civilians, have not aroused the ire that is being witnessed as a result of the recent attack on Gaza, which killed less than 300. That many of the dead were children and infrastructure in the already devastated Strip was deliberately targeted explains part of the anger, but there is something more fundam…

David Rosen (2021-06-17). Break-Up Big Tech? Amazon, a Public Utility?: Keep Your Fingers Crossed. counterpunch.org "Today's big tech companies have too much power — too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy," wrote Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during her failed presidential run in 2019. "They've bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else. And in the process, they have

Noam Chomsky (2021-06-17). Republicans Are Willing to Destroy Democracy to Retake Power. zcomm.org It's hard to garner votes with the slogan "I want to rob you. Vote for me." That leaves only a few options. One is to prevent the "wrong people" from voting.

WSWS (2021-06-17). UK: Johnson's mendacious defence of media "freedom", while Assange remains imprisoned. wsws.org That Johnson can tweet supposedly in defence of abused journalist Nicholas Watt while perpetrating the criminalisation of Assange speaks to the atrophying of any constituency for democratic rights within the bourgeoisie.

John Clamp (2021-06-17). Denmark to Refugees: Be My Guest, Just Not in My House. counterpunch.org Political culture in Europe has sunk below the Plimsoll Line. Denmark's parliament, the Folketinget, was the very first to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons. On June 3 this year, it passed another piece of legislation aimed at offshoring asylum seekers. Even Social Democratic politicians are checking their

WSWS (2021-06-17). Detroit autoworkers declare support for striking Volvo Truck workers in Virginia. wsws.org Workers at the Stellantis Warren Truck Assembly Plant voiced their support for striking workers during a shift change at the Detroit area plant…

John Nichols (2021-06-17). ALEC's Corporate Funders Are Complicit in State-Based Assaults on Voting Rights and Democracy. thenation.com ALEC's Corporate Funders Are Complicit in State-Based Assaults on Voting Rights and Democracy…

_____ (2021-06-17). New Israeli Government, Same Israeli Apartheid. popularresistance.org After 12 years, Israel finally inaugurated a new prime minister. While being hailed by many as the opportunity for a fresh start, Naftali Bennett is at best a maintainer of Netanyahu's policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu's. | In 2013, as Middle East peace talks were set to resume after a five-year freeze, Bennett reportedly proclaimed to Israeli National Security Adviser Ya'akov Amidror, "I've killed lots of Arabs in my life — and there's no problem with that." | In 2014, Bennett, who had previously been the director of the Yesha Settlements Council, contradicted…

Jennifer Bendery (2021-06-17). Texas Governor Signs Law to Stop Teachers from Talking about Racism. zcomm.org "The idea is to whitewash American history of any legacy of racism," said state Democratic Rep. James Talarico.

Michael Harris (2021-06-17). Modern Day, "Lynch Mob" seeks to scrub the golden legacy of Negro Bar, Sacramento County. indybay.org First Railroad West of the Continental Divide, From the City of Sacramento to Negro Bar, Sacramento County… soon pitched to be erased from history by a "Private" modern day "lynch mob" the authentic legacy of Negro Hill / Negro Bar Gold Mining District…

Medea Benjamin (2021-06-16). Why Democracies in G7 and NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership. progressive.org When President Biden meets with the leaders of democratic countries, he represents a country that is, in many ways, an undemocratic outlier rather than a leader among democratic nations.

Dean Baker (2021-06-16). Biden, China, and the New Cold War. cepr.net After Donald Trump's clown shows, it was nice to have a U.S. president who at least takes world issues seriously while representing the country at the various summits over the last week. But that is a low bar. While we want adults in positions of responsibility, we have to ask where those adults want to …

Staff (2021-06-16). Congressman McGovern Admits the United States Uses Venezuelan Lives as 'Bargaining Chips'. orinocotribune.com A US congressman has asked the US President Joe Biden to "correct the course of US policy" towards Venezuela and lift all the sanctions against the South American country. | "I think the time has come to correct the course of US policy towards Venezuela," wrote Democrat Congressman Jim McGovern in a The Massachusetts legislator condemned the sanctions that have been imposed on the Venezuelan oil industry, on its…

Peter Certo (2021-06-16). In OtherWords: June 16, 2021. otherwords.org This month marks the 50th anniversary of the war on drugs, an institution so ingrained that many of us grew up without ever realizing it was a policy choice. But even after five decades of gargantuan investments in policing, penalties, and prisons, fatal drug overdoses still hit an all time high last year. | Clearly, Ellen Grover argues this week, there are better ways to protect public health — and much damage to repair besides. Years ago, Joe Biden staked much of his career on the drug war. Now, Ellen argues, he must end it. | This month also marks the anniversary of Ronald Reagan's death. The former pres…

Nicolas J S Davies (2021-06-16). Why Democracies in G7 and NATO Should Reject U.S. Leadership. progressive.org When President Biden meets with the leaders of democratic countries, he represents a country that is, in many ways, an undemocratic outlier rather than a leader among democratic nations.

A Guest Author (2021-06-16). The case of Alex Saab. workers.org By Sara Flounders and Roger D. Harris Facing the possible extradition to the U.S. of a Venezuelan diplomat on bogus charges, an emergency human rights delegation organized by the International Campaign to Free Alex Saab on June 3 flew to Cabo Verde, where Saab is imprisoned. This island archipelago . . . |

The Associated Press (2021-06-16). US and Mexico Seek Ways to Do More on Irregular Immigration. latinorebels.com MEXICO CITY (AP) — In consecutive visits this month, Vice President Kamala Harris and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have conveyed to the most important U.S. partner that the Biden administration is taking a more nuanced approach to immigration than its predecessor, but still asking what more Mexico can do.

Tony López R. (2021-06-16). Colombia, øDemocracia o impunidad? globalizacion.ca Al conocer cada día más detalles de los acontecimientos y grave crisis que atraviesa hoy el hermano pueblo colombiano, me pregunto, quien y quienes, pueden continuar levantando la bandera de que en Colombia reina la "democracia más antigua de este…

Ted Rall (2021-06-16). What I'd do as NYC Mayor. counterpunch.org New Yorkers go to the polls June 22 to choose their next mayor. They're primaries, but whoever wins the Democratic nomination will almost certainly move into Gracie Mansion. Media coverage has focused on the fading fortunes of former presidential candidate and tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang, the dearth of progressives in a wide field and the new,

C.J. Atkins (2021-06-16). U.S. pushes NATO to target China, risking new Cold War. peoplesworld.org Watch what they do, not just what they say. That's the only conclusion to reach when assessing the stance taken toward China by the NATO countries this week. Several leaders at the U.S.-led military alliance's summit in Brussels tripped over themselves in front of the press to claim they are not seeking a new Cold …

Rebecca Gordon (2021-06-16). Social Security Versus National Security: Whose Entitlement Really Makes Us Safer? juancole.com ( Tomdispatch.com) — "Biden's doing better than I thought he would." "Yeah. Vaccinations, infrastructure, acknowledging racism in policing. A lot of pieces of the Green New Deal, without calling it that. The child subsidies. It's kind of amazing." "But on the military—" "Yeah, same old, same old." As my friends and I have noticed, President …

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-16). Report: Pentagon Weighs Proposals to Send Dozens of Troops Back to Somalia. news.antiwar.com According to The report said the proposal has not yet been presented to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and that it's not clear if President Biden would approve the move. So far, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) has reported no US airstrikes in Somalia since Biden came into office, marking a sharp decline in the US drone war in the country.

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-16). Biden and Putin Say Talks Went Well, But Tensions Remain. news.antiwar.com President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin wrapped up talks in Geneva on Wednesday. World leaders typically hold joint press conferences after summits, but Biden and Putin spoke to the media on their own. Putin spoke with reporters first and described the meeting as "constructive." | "There has been no hostility,"

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-16). Beijing Says It Doesn't Fear US-EU Plans to Counter China. news.antiwar.com The US and the EU announced that they are The plan to form the trade body, known as the US-EU Trade and Technology Council, came out of President Biden's meeting with EU leaders on Tuesday. It was annou…

_____ (2021-06-16). Federal Judge Deals Major Setback to Biden's "Green" Agenda, Orders Resumption in Federal Drilling Auctions. strategic-culture.org By TFPP Wire | A federal judge in Louisiana on Tuesday blocked the Biden administration's pause on oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters, dealing a setback to a key White House effort to address climate change. | The order granted a preliminary injunction to Louisiana and 12 other states that sued Democratic President Joe Biden and the Interior Department over the freeze on new drilling auctions. Louisiana is a major hub for offshore oil and gas production. | Biden paused the government's leasing auctions in January pending a review that is expected to be completed in the coming weeks. The move was part…

Aída Chávez (2021-06-16). Will Democratic Court Nominations Live Up to Biden's Promises? thenation.com Will Democratic Court Nominations Live Up to Biden's Promises?

Staff (2021-06-16). Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Biden From Pausing New Oil Drilling Leases. truthout.org A Trump-appointed federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary pause on new leases for oil and gas drilling on public lands and waters, a decision the Interior Department "The judge's order turns a blind eye to runaway climate pollution that's devastating ou…

Mel Gurtov (2021-06-16). The Pentagon's Untouchable Budget. zcomm.org Did you really think that electing Biden would mean major reductions in military spending and the shift of Pentagon resources to spending on social well-being?>

Staff (2021-06-16). Calls to contain Russia not constructive. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — Kremlin spokesman said that statements coming from the US about a necessity to contain Russia ahead of the Biden-Putin summit in Geneva are not constructive.

Kamal Iranidoost (2021-06-16). Iran HR council responds to Biden's tweet on democracy. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Jun. 16 (MNA) — Iran's human rights council has reacted to a tweet by US President Joe Biden, saying that the American democracy exports has yielded no results but coup detate, chaos, more opium plantation, and civil war.

John Wojcik (2021-06-16). Mensaje para Biden y Putin: No desperdicien oportunidades históricas. peoplesworld.org En la prensa de nuestro país ha surgido una narrativa simplista y peligrosa en torno a la próxima reunión en Ginebra del presidente estadounidense Joe Biden y el presidente ruso Vladimir Putin. La narrativa es que Biden debe usar la reunión para "dictar la ley" al peligroso autócrata Putin que supuestamente pudo controlar al expresidente …

Anonymous007 (2021-06-16). US-Russia Joint Statement, Putin's Remarks Following 'Constructive' Meeting With Joe Biden. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | On June 16th, US President Joe Biden met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland. |

Scott Ritter (2021-06-16). Biden Wants NATO to Project the Strength It Doesn't Have. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at @

Stephen Lendman (2021-06-16). Remarks by Biden's Double at G7. globalresearch.ca Visit and follow us on Instagram at @

WSWS (2021-06-16). Turkish President Erdogan meets Biden at NATO summit. wsws.org The meeting between the Turkish president and his US counterpart in a closed-door meeting left serious diplomatic conflicts unresolved.

Paul Street (2021-06-16). American Backstory, While Biden Struts Abroad. counterpunch.org France's vacuous to repressive neoliberal president Emanuel "Hot for Teacher" Macron says that "America is back," by which he means that the United States has returned, post-Trump, to its leadership role atop the world's rich so-called democracies (outwardly constitutional de facto bourgeois class dictatorships) at the G7 meetings in Europe. | U.S. President Joe "Nothing Will Fundamentally Change" Biden on Sunday boasted in England that "America is back at the table," leading the charge against grave challenges like "China." | Let's take a look back at some facts of U.S.-American life that are escaping serious "f…

Latino Rebels (2021-06-16). On DACA's 9th Anniversary, Immigrant Youth and Allies Tell Biden and Demorcats That It's Not Enough. latinorebels.com "Republicans want a pathway to deportation, not citizenship. We demand Democrats go it alone to deliver permanent protections for millions now," a release from United We Dream said.

Staff (2021-06-16). Chomsky: Republicans Are Willing to Destroy Democracy to Retake Power. truthout.org Today's Republican Party is an extremist force that no longer qualifies as a mainstream political party and is surely not interested in participating in "normal" politics. In fact, today's GOP is so wrapped around extreme and irrational beliefs that even Europe's far-right parties and movements, including Marine Le Pen's National Rally, seem conventional in comparison. | The GOP's political identity has been dramatically shaped by former President Donald Trump, but these recent shifts would n…

Robert S. Becker (2021-06-16). The wacko Republican idea of an 'opposition party'—take down historic, majority American values. nationofchange.org Can the deluded right hope to regain credibility by backing the anti-American Trump crusade?>

DLI (2021-06-16). Huge disconnects in US-G7 pronouncements. indybay.org The global Covid pandemic has glaringly exposed several giant disconnects in the policy intentions of the Gang of Seven(G7, also euphemistically self-labeled as "market democracies"!). At the conclusion of the latest meeting in England, the joint statement focused on 2 blatant unsubstantiated charges on China and a "dodgy" commitment to send vaccines to needy countries.

Rebekah Entralgo (2021-06-16). Pandemic Recovery Must Include Care Worker Protections. counterpunch.org Between daycare closures, school closures, and nursing homes becoming hotbeds for the deadly virus, the Covid-19 pandemic turned millions of people into caregivers overnight. These additional caregiving responsibilities are a key factor holding many Americans back from re-entering the workforce. While Republicans try to argue that overly generous unemployment benefits are causing staffing shortages in

Dave DeCamp (2021-06-16). Schumer Says Senate Will Vote on Repealing 2002 Iraq AUMF. news.antiwar.com On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) "I strongly and fully support repealing the 2002 authorization for the use of military force in Iraq," Schumer said. "It is my intention as majority leader to bring this matter to a floor vote this year." | The House is expected to vote on repealing the 2002 AUMF this week, an effort led by Re…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-06-16). Vague Alternatives and G7 Summitry: The Build Back Better World Initiative. counterpunch.org Summits often feature grand statements and needless fripperies. In Cornwall, the leaders of the G7 countries were trying to position and promote their relevance as the vanguard of democratic good sense and values. They, the message went, remained relevant, valuable and essential to the order of the earth, despite challenges posed by the autocrats. Never

The Conversation (2021-06-16). It wasn't just politics that led to Netanyahu's ouster — it was fear of his demagoguery. juancole.com By Dov Waxman | ( The Conversation) — There is something Shakespearean about Benjamin Netanyahu's downfall. As in a scene from "Julius Caesar," who was assassinated by Roman senators, Netanyahu was deposed by his former underlings, the leaders of the three right-wing parties that have joined the new government — Naftali Bennett, Avigdor Lieberman and …

Staff (2021-06-16). A GOP Lawmaker Wants to Ban Critical Race Theory — Without Knowing What It Is. truthout.org Following a wave of Republican bills across the country against the teaching of critical race theory in schools and universities, Alabama Republican state Rep. Chris Pringle recently pre-filed a bill of his own to ban its teaching in his own state. | But Pringle, much like many of the

RobertAlvarez (2021-06-16). REPORT: Silver Spoon Oligarchs. ips-dc.org Silver spoon oligarchs: How America's 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality: | Chuck Collins | Joe Fitzgerald | Helen Flannery | Omar Ocampo | Sophia Paslaski | Kalena Thomhave: | Introduction: | Much of the media's focus today is on new wealth billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk, who have become centi-billionaires in their lifetimes. Lurking behind these dynamic first-generation stories, however, are persistent examples of even greater multi-generational dynastic wealth. | In healthy, equitable democratic societies, great fortunes dissipate ove…

RobertAlvarez (2021-06-16). Silver Spoon Oligarchs. ips-dc.org Silver spoon oligarchs: How America's 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality: | Chuck Collins | Joe Fitzgerald | OMar Ocampo | Sophia Paslaski | Kalena Thomhave: | Introduction: | Much of the media's focus today is on new wealth billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk, who have become centi-billionaires in their lifetimes. Lurking behind these dynamic first-generation stories, however, are persistent examples of even greater multi-generational dynastic wealth. | In healthy, equitable democratic societies, great fortunes dissipate over a few generatio…

Editor (2021-06-16). Ye who shall not work (for low wages) shall not eat. workers.org In 2017, to justify changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Rep. Jodey Arrington leaned on the scriptures — specifically 2 Thessalonians 3-10: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat." (Washington Post, March 31, 2017) The Republican Congressperson was arguing for making recipients work for their benefits . . . |

Jill Richardson (2021-06-16). Government Can Be Collaborative. otherwords.org I'm a PhD student studying collaborative approaches to governance, comparing them to more typically combative approaches in our representative democracy. Here's what I've learned: | People tend to frame their arguments in universal terms ("What I want is best for everyone"). It sounds more convincing to say, "We should do what is best for all" or "We should do what is morally right" instead of "We should do what is best for me." | Once "what I want" is translated into "what is universally morally right" or "what is best for everyone," then other options are framed as immoral, impractical, or oppressive. | When th…

Alex Kotch, Michael Edison Hayden (2021-06-16). Donors Pumped Millions into White Nationalist Group. splcenter.org Donors gave the prominent white nationalist hate group VDARE $4.3 million in 2019, over eight times more than the year before, according to tax records the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) obtained and shared with Hatewatch.

Ariel Gold (2021-06-16). New Israeli Government, Same Israeli Apartheid. zcomm.org While being hailed by many as the opportunity for a fresh start, Naftali Bennett is at best a continuer of Netanyahu's policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu's…

Ariel Gold (2021-06-16). New Israeli Government, Same Israeli Apartheid. counterpunch.org After 12 years, Israel finally inaugurated a new prime minister. While being hailed by many as the opportunity for a fresh start, Naftali Bennett is at best a continuer of Netanyahu's policies and at worst an ideologue whose positions are to the right of Netanyahu's. In 2013, as Middle East peace talks were set to

Amanda Yee (2021-06-16). NYC mayoral candidate exposed as in the pay of big real estate. zcomm.org Organizers linked the struggle to save the supermarket to the fight against Adams's Democratic nomination…

Michael Harris (2021-06-16). Modern Day, "Lynch Mob" seeks to scrub the golden legacy of Negro Bar, Sacramento County. indybay.org First Railroad West of the Continental Divide, From the City of Sacramento to Negro Bar, Sacramento County… soon pitched to be erased from history by a "Private" modern day "lynch mob" the authentic legacy of Negro Hill / Negro Bar Gold Mining District…

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