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  • Vaccination against COVID-19 is underway in Nicaragua largely thanks to vaccine donations from Russia. Photo: CCC Jairo Cajina

    Nicaragua’s inspiring response to COVID-19

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 23, 2021 by Rohan Rice (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted May 25, 2021)

    Little attention has been paid internationally to how the Central American country has managed to keep COVID-19 cases and fatalities low even under a devastating campaign of U.S. sanctions

  • Bob Dylan at 80

    It’s all protest music: Bob Dylan at 80

    Originally published: Red Flag on May 23, 2021 by Dougal McNeill (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted May 24, 2021)

    Wherever the forces of destruction attempt to cut down trees, pollute our air and water, and rip away the earth for minerals, women have been leading the resistance. In the cities and communities, women have fought for clean water, air, and land for their families to flourish.

  • NATO damage in Belgrade (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

    NATO’s war against Yugoslavia: the ghost that still haunts Europe

    Originally published: Anti-bellum on May 18, 2021 by Rick Rozoff (more by Anti-bellum) (Posted May 22, 2021)

    NATO’s war against Yugoslavia: the ghost that still haunts Europe

  • Landon Richie testifying against anti-trans legislation at the Capitol in 2019. COURTESY OF LANDON RICHIE

    Fighting anti-trans legislation takes a toll on Texas kids and families

    Originally published: Texas Observer on May 20, 2021 by Yvonne S. Marquez (more by Texas Observer)  | (Posted May 22, 2021)

    A record-breaking wave of anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced by state legislatures across the country this year. Texas lawmakers filed the most of any state, the majority of them attacking trans youth.

  • Screenshots from the video show students at the Affiliated High School of Peking University enjoying their time. From Weibo)

    Viral video of posh High School sparks heated debate on privilege

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on May 20, 2021 by Liu Mengqiu and Du Xinyu (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted May 21, 2021)

    After an alumnus of an elite Beijing high school made a video showing off its pristine facilities and supposedly laid-back pace, many online demanded that she and her ilk stop rubbing their privilege in others’ faces.

  • People carry the body of a man who died from COVID-19 at a crematorium in New Delhi, May 3, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi

    COVID-19: Like in Dante’s ‘Inferno’, Indians are going through nine circles of hell

    Originally published: The Wire on May 19, 2021 by Debasish Chakraborty (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 21, 2021)

    Akin to how characters in Dante’s poem paid for their sins in hell, Indians are paying with their lives during a pandemic for electing a government that is utterly incompetent and bigoted.

  • Karl Marx: March Ye Workers, and the World Shall be Free!

    Karl Marx: March ye workers, and the World shall be free!

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on May 16, 2021 by Shubham Sharma (more by Janata Weekly)  | (Posted May 20, 2021)

    Exactly 203 years ago, Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany, on May 5, 1818 to a family of converted Christians belonging to the line of Jewish Rabbis which ended with Moses Lwow, Trier Rabbi from 1764 to 1788.

  • Israel/Palestine Coverage Presents False Equivalency Between Occupied and Occupier

    Israel/Palestine coverage presents false equivalency between occupied and occupier

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 18, 2021 by Gregory Shupak (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  | (Posted May 20, 2021)

    Media coverage of heightened violence in Israel/Palestine has misrepresented events in the Israeli government’s favor by suggesting that Israel is acting defensively, presenting a false equivalency between occupier and occupied, and burying information necessary to understand the scale of Israeli brutality.

  • Relatives of 11-year-old Hussain Hamad, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike mourn during his funeral in the family home in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, May 11, 2021. Khalil Hamra | AP

    Facebook, social media giants admit to silencing Palestinian voices online

    Originally published: MintPress News on May 14, 2021 by Jessica Buxbaum (more by MintPress News)  | (Posted May 19, 2021)

    Social media companies including Facebook have admitted to MintPress that pro-Palestinian posts were removed, blaming “technical bugs” and “spam filters.”

  • A worker checks the equipment inside a bitcoin mine in rural Sichuan province, 2016. Liu Xingzhe/People Visual

    As China pursues a green future, Bitcoin miners feel the squeeze

    Originally published: Sixth Tone on May 18, 2021 by Li You (more by Sixth Tone)  | (Posted May 19, 2021)

    Chinese cryptocurrency businesses mine two-thirds of all Bitcoin. But for how long will they remain welcome in the country?

  • “I approve it for my class,” reads the banner supporting the vote for a new constitution in Chile. (Photo: Frente Fotográfico)

    Progressive forces win majority of seats in Chile’s Constitutional Convention

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 17, 2021 by Tanya Wadhwa (more by Peoples Dispatch)  | (Posted May 19, 2021)

    Independent and progressive candidates won more than a two-thirds majority in the Constitutional Convention, a body responsible for writing Chile’s new constitution.

  • Stefanie K. Dunning’s “Black to Nature”

    BAR Book Forum: Stefanie K. Dunning’s “Black to Nature”

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 12, 2021 by Roberto Sirvent (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted May 18, 2021)

    The author explores various social, political, and cultural sites that explore and highlight the Black pastoral experience.

  • Frantz Fanon speaking at the All African People’s Conference (AAPC), which was held in Accra, Ghana, between 5 and 13 December 1958.

    Frantz Fanon and the Algerian revolution today

    Originally published: ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy) on May 6, 2021 by Hamza Hamouchene (more by ROAPE (Review of African Political Economy))  | (Posted May 18, 2021)

    This two-part long read is an extract from a chapter in a forthcoming book Fanon Today: The Revolt and Reason of the Wretched of the Earth (edited by Nigel Gibson, Daraja Press 2021).

  • Palestine Demonstration

    Massive resistance in all parts of Palestine amid deadly Israeli assault

    Originally published: The Party for Socialism and Liberation on May 15, 2021 by Richard Becker (more by The Party for Socialism and Liberation)  | (Posted May 18, 2021)

    In just the last week, the situation in occupied Palestine and the larger region has seen a dramatic shift.

  • The body of a Palestinian man named Ahmed Al-Shenbari, who was killed during an Israeli raid on Beit Hanoun City, is taken to a mortuary on May 11, 2021 in Gaza. (Photo: Fatima Shbair via Getty Images)

    Biden budget would send $1.3 billion more to Israeli military than to Global climate programs: Analysis

    Originally published: Common Dreams on May 11, 2021 by Kenny Stancil (more by Common Dreams)  | (Posted May 17, 2021)

    A group of anti-war veterans said President Joe Biden’s spending priorities indicate that he thinks “preserving apartheid is more important than fighting climate change.”

  • Illustration of China’s Tianwen-1 lander and accompanying Zhurong rover on the surface of Mars. Credit: Xinhua News Agency Getty Images

    China lands Tianwen-1 Rover on Mars in a major first for the Country

    Originally published: Scientific American on May 14, 2021 by Jonathan O'Callaghan (more by Scientific American)  | (Posted May 17, 2021)

    Second only to the U.S. in a fully successful Mars landing, China is now set to explore the Utopia Planitia region of the Red Planet’s surface.

  • ARMED ISRAELI SETTLERS ARRIVING IN LYDD (LOD) WITH PROTECTION FROM ISRAELI FORCES, MAY 12, 2021. (PHOTO: TWITTER)

    This isn’t a civil war, it is settler-colonial brutality

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on May 13, 2021 by Lana Tatour (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted May 17, 2021)

    We are not seeing a “civil war” inside Israel, but rather the Israeli settler state declaring a war on its colonized “citizens,” and Palestinians fighting for their liberation.

  • Soviet Jews "Stand With Israel Forever"

    Soviet Jews “stand with Israel forever”

    Originally published: Immigrants as a Weapon on May 14, 2021 by Yasha Levine (more by Immigrants as a Weapon) (Posted May 15, 2021)

    This is what happens when a whole group of people gets converted to ethno-nationalism, which has become a kind of secular religion for them—a belief system predicated on messianic ethnic cleansing and blood-and-soil thinking. Most of my old Soviet immigrant friends aren’t religious, but Zionism fills in that gap for them.

  • ‘Everywhere is war’: paying tribute to Bob Marley

    ‘Everywhere is war’: paying tribute to Bob Marley

    Originally published: Red Flag on May 9, 2021 by Chris Moore (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted May 15, 2021)

    Forty years after his death, Robert Nesta Marley retains a unique position as possibly the only Third World musical superstar, widely known by millions of people around the globe.

  • Valerie, a homeless resident of Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles, speaks to journalists during a protest against the park’s closure on March 24, 2021. Photo credit: Jeremy Lindenfeld / WhoWhatWhy

    One more “flashpoint” in the Los Angeles homelessness crisis

    Originally published: Who What Why on May 12, 2021 by Jeremy Lindenfeld (more by Who What Why)  | (Posted May 15, 2021)

    On the morning of March 24, local activists and unhoused residents gathered at Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles to oppose city councilmember Mitch O’Farrell’s looming eviction of the homeless people living around the lake.

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