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  • 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.

  • ISRAELI PARAMILITARY BORDER POLICE OFFICERS STAND GUARD AS JEWISH RIGHT-WING DEMONSTRATORS DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THREE JEWS ARRESTED IN THE SHOOTING DEATH OF MOUSA HASOONA, OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT COURT IN LOD, ISRAEL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2021. (AP PHOTO/HEIDI LEVINE)

    Palestinian community in Lydda calls for international protection from Israeli state-sanctioned pogroms

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on May 13, 2021 by Open Letter (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted May 15, 2021)

    Following a night of racist attacks by far-right Israeli extremists, Palestinians living in Lydda (Lod) are calling for immediate international intervention to defend them before it is too late.

  • In the era of fake news, we must celebrate the journalist in Karl Marx

    Originally published: The Wire on May 12, 2021 by Naren Singh Rao (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 14, 2021)

    His stance on free press stands in sharp contrast to the status of the press–being totally subservient to the state–in the communist countries of the 20th century.

  • Still from The Rifleman, courtesy of Sierra Pettengill and Field of Vision

    How the modern NRA was born at the border

    Originally published: Boston Review on May 7, 2021 by Sierra Pettengill and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (more by Boston Review)  | (Posted May 14, 2021)

    Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman, which examines how NRA head Harlon Carter fused gun rights, immigration enforcement, and white supremacy. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

  • The cow dung cakes found in a suitcase that arrived on an Air India flight at the Dulles Washington airport in the US. Photo: US Customs and Border Protection

    U.S. Customs to Indian travellers: Don’t carry cow dung in your luggage

    Originally published: The Wire on May 13, 2021 (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 14, 2021)

    In India, doctors recently had to issue a warning against the practice of using cow dung in the belief it will ward off COVID-19, saying there is no scientific evidence for its effectiveness and that it risks spreading other diseases.

  • Clockwise from top left: Charles Ogletree, Derrick Bell, Patricia Williams, Kimberlé Crenshaw.

    The War on Critical Race theory

    Originally published: Boston Review on May 7, 2021 by David Goldberg (more by Boston Review)  | (Posted May 13, 2021)

    Turning a blind eye to the realities of racial injustice, the highly orchestrated right-wing attacks cast a body of scholarship about race in the law as a great threat to American society.

  • New Intermarium: Biden, NATO Pledge Support to NATO’s Nine-Nation Eastern Flank

    New Intermarium: Biden, NATO pledge support to NATO’s Nine-Nation eastern flank

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on May 10, 2021 by Rick Rozoff (more by Internationalist 360°) (Posted May 13, 2021)

    The members of the Bucharest Nine (9) NATO eastern flank Allies (White House terminology) held a virtual summit today from the Romanian capital that lends it name to the group.

  • ISRAELI BORDER POLICE OPERATING IN THE CITY OF LYDDA (LOD), MAY 11, 2021. (PHOTO: TWITTER/@IL_POLICE)

    Israel’s illusion of normality collapses: May 2021

    Originally published: Mondoweiss on May 12, 2021 by Haim Bresheeth-Žabner (more by Mondoweiss)  | (Posted May 13, 2021)

    May 2021 has shattered Israeli illusions that they are immune from the volcano the country has created through its history of ethnic cleansing and apartheid.

  • Medical Apartheid: From Israel/Palestine to Canada

    Medical Apartheid: From Israel/Palestine to Canada

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on May 11, 2021 by Judith Deutsch (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  | (Posted May 13, 2021)

    Canada has a long history of humanitarian hypocrisy with regard to racial and ethnic discrimination. During World War II, “none is too many” referred to European Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazi Germany who were refused admission and sent back to Germany.

  • Ashish Pande, Pandit at Ghazipur Crematorium. Photo: Naomi Barton/The Wire

    Sacred Bones: Caste and COVID-19 in Delhi’s crematoriums

    Originally published: The Wire on May 9, 2021 by Naomi Barton (more by The Wire)  | (Posted May 12, 2021)

    With an unprecedented volume of dead bodies, Brahmins and workers from other castes are working side by side in the crematoriums of Delhi. But caste defines every choice made among the pyres.

  • atrick Nouhailler, Silicon Valley From Above, Flickr

    The Tech-VC Bloc is key to understanding why work is getting worse

    Originally published: Marxist Sociology on April 21, 2021 by Sidney A Rothstein (more by Marxist Sociology)  | (Posted May 11, 2021)

    The promise of digital transformation is anchored in a discourse that the tech sector invented along with venture capital (VC) when they came together to lobby for reducing capital gains taxes in the late 1970s.

  • Fanon’s renewal of the Marxist formula

    Fanon’s renewal of the Marxist formula

    Originally published: New Frame on November 19, 2018 by Nigel C. Gibson (more by New Frame)  | (Posted May 11, 2021)

    In the vortex of the Algerian revolution Fanon’s return to ‘the Marxist formula’ was rooted in the concrete situation of a living struggle.

  • a black background with a trail of drugs (Photo by stockmedia.cc.)

    Center-periphery relationships of pharmaceutical value chains

    Originally published: Developing Economics on May 4, 2021 by Cristina Fróes de Borja Reis and José Paulo Guedes Pinto (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted May 11, 2021)

    The internationalization of the pharmaceutical industry only rose after the internationalization of patent protection in the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement) (Haakonsson, 2009).

  • U.S. Commerce Department

    ACURA Viewpoint: Sanctions and Forever Wars by Krishen Mehta

    Originally published: US–Russia Accord on May 4, 2021 by Krishen Mehta (more by US–Russia Accord) (Posted May 11, 2021)

    The U.S. has sanctions against over 30 countries, close to one-third of the world’s population. When the pandemic startedin early 2020, our Government tried to prevent Iran from buying respirator masks from overseas, and also thermal imaging equipment that could detect the virus in the lungs.

  • Sweden's hands-off coronavirus model has failed

    Sweden’s hands-off coronavirus model has failed

    Originally published: Red Flag on May 4, 2021 by Chris Giddings (more by Red Flag)  | (Posted May 10, 2021)

    State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell explained—in a now removed article in Dagens Industri, a Stockholm-based financial newspaper—that the country’s strategy to contain the virus would not “compromise our social functioning in a way that is more detrimental to any profits”.

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    Maja Solar Graffiti in Mexico City, 2011. It reads: No Mas Feminicidios (No more murder of women).

    The gendered forms of violence in capitalist-patriarchal societies are, obviously, related to what is habitually recognized as violence against women.

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