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  • 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”.

  • Oli’s virus ‘situation under control’ remark meets with criticism

    Oli’s virus ‘situation under control’ remark meets with criticism

    Originally published: The Kathmandu Post on May 9, 2021 by Tika R. Pradhan and Binod Ghimire (more by The Kathmandu Post) (Posted May 10, 2021)

    Crisis continues to deepen with over 8,000 new cases and 53 deaths. Many from Oli’s orbit and over two dozen lawmakers test positive ahead of May 10 House session.

  • A COVID-19 patient waits to receive oxygen outside an emergency ward of a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal

    Doctors in Nepal warn people could die on streets amid Covid crisis

    Originally published: Morning Star on May 2021 (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted May 10, 2021)

    Nepal reported 9,070 new confirmed cases on Thursday, compared to 298 a month ago.

  • Free composition - A Critical Analysis Of A Report By The Newlines Institute And The Raoul Wallenberg Center

    The Xinjiang genocide determination as agenda

    Originally published: The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research, TFF, Lund, Sweden on April 27, 2021 by Gordon Dumoulin, Jan Oberg and Thore Vestby (more by The Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research, TFF, Lund, Sweden)  | (Posted May 08, 2021)

    Because of the world’s fundamental interconnectedness, the increasingly Cold War-like relations between The West and China have negative consequences for both systems and for the rest of the world.

  • How The US Taught Judge Moro To “Take Down” Lula

    How the U.S. taught Judge Moro to “take down” Lula

    Originally published: Brasil Wire on May 3, 2021 by Joaquim de Carvalho (more by Brasil Wire)  | (Posted May 08, 2021)

    How a U.S. State Department official taught illegal tactics to Brazilian judges and prosecutors that went on to be used to remove Lula from the 2018 presidential race

  • BAR Book Forum: Kathryn Sophia Belle’s “Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question”

    BAR Book Forum: Kathryn Sophia Belle’s “Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question”

    Originally published: Black Agenda Report on May 6, 2021 by Roberto Sirvent (more by Black Agenda Report)  | (Posted May 08, 2021)

    Arendt saw the “Negro question” as a “Negro problem” rather than a white problem.

  • Space Force officer displays new service tapes

    Star Trek: Progressivism and corporatism don’t mix (part 2)

    Originally published: Axis of Logic on May 3, 2021 by B.J. Sabri (more by Axis of Logic) (Posted May 08, 2021)

    What is the point of Star Trek? Is it conceivable that all these treks among the stars are in fact subtle ways to spread and justify U.S. policies, ideology, militarism, and interventionism?

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