When It Comes to Gun Violence, Mental Health Matters and the Left Should Fight for It ~~ Tatiana Cozzarelli June 13, 2022

 https://www.leftvoice.org/when-it-comes-to-gun-violence-mental-health-matters-and-the-left-should-fight-for-it/

In the aftermath of the recent wave of mass shootings we need a mental health overhaul and it’s the Left that needs to fight for it.

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Beyond Revenge, What Does Jane’s Revenge Want? ~~ Judith Levine

 https://theintercept.com/2022/06/16/janes-revenge-abortion-rights/

The attacks on anti-abortion centers express a necessary militant fury. But the conflation of militance with violence is a mistake.


~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Sunday, June 26, 2022

Food nationalism crisis threat looms over Asia ~~By WILLIAM PESEKJUNE 22, 2022

 https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/food-nationalism-crisis-threat-looms-over-asia/

Food inflation is upending all that investors and policymakers thought they knew about 2022

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Friday, June 24, 2022

Unaccountable Patriarchs and their Handmaid Force Girls and Women to Give Birth

 

This set of material posted below is not just  a list of 3 specific articles, instead each of the 3 recommended websites has anywhere from 30 - 50 entries covering a wide range of aspects of the issue.


Roe v WadeJune 2022Various / Anon, A collection of 198 Articles on the issue of Abortion Rights published in The Guardian including 9 posted today, June 24th 2022 and another 11 posted during June of 2022, in The Guardian, < https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/roe-v-wade >

Roe v. Wade Overturned: Our Latest Resources: What you need to know: Data, analysis and more from Guttmacher experts”, June 24, 2022, Anon, Another collection of various resources published in the Guttmacher Institute's website, including an interactive map, 8 items in a section labeled as “Key Evidence and Data”, articles 3 of them posted in June of 2022 and a great number posted earlier, 4 video clips, Guttmacher Institute, at < https://www.guttmacher.org/abortion-rights-supreme-court >

roe v wade, June 24, 2022, Various / Anon, A collection of about 35 articles that appear to have published today, plus many others published and previously by The IndependentThe Independent, < https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/roe-v-wade?CMP=ILC-refresh >.

~~ Recommended by dmorista ~~

Eric Greitens' Death Squad Politics ~~ Spencer Ackerman

https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/eric-greitens-ad-seal-domestic-violence 

An accused rapist who trades on his Navy SEAL credentials fantasizes about a violent purge. He likes boasting that the cops are with him. Haha, j/k…unless..?

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Brazil’s Election: A Looming Crisis for Washington ~~ NICHOLAS ZIMMERMAN AND ROBERTO SIMON | JUNE 13, 2022

 https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/brazils-election-a-looming-crisis-for-washington%EF%BF%

A meeting between the two presidents in Los Angeles foreshadowed bigger trouble ahead, as Bolsonaro looks set to challenge the vote.

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Capitalism is killing our children ~~ Betsey Piette posted on June 17, 2022

 https://www.workers.org/2022/06/64878/

It is incomprehensible that Washington politicians could sit through the hours of gut-wrenching testimony from the loved ones of victims of recent gun violence in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, and not be moved. Yet this seems to be the case.

~~ recommended by collectivist action ~~

Monday, June 20, 2022

US, China cashing in on global arms trade shakeup ~~ By TERRENCE GUAYJUNE 8, 2022

  

https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/us-china-cashing-in-on-global-arms-trade-shakeu


Reliability and desirability of Russian arms now in question, opening the way for US and Chinese makers to seize the market

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Few of The President's Men ~~ Spencer Ackerman

 https://foreverwars.substack.com/p/january-6-treason-normalcy-cheney-barr?utm_source=email

A bitter irony of the January 6 Committee is that it's paving a road to rehab for Constitutional vandals like Bill Barr.

Boudin Gets Recalled ~~ Darrell Owens

 https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/boudin-gets-recalled

Yo, wait until the results come out before jumping to conclusions. Also it's okay to say the "A-word."

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

'Revolting': Senate Panel Adds Another $45 Billion to Biden's Military Budget ~~ Kenny Stancil

 https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/17/revolting-senate-panel-adds-another-45-billion-bidens-military-budget

"The Pentagon's ever-growing budget is quite simply a theft from American people enriching some of the wealthiest corporations in this country," said one critic. "It's disgraceful."

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Dirty Laundry ~~ ALEX PRESS

  

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2902/a-labor-organizer-s-account-of-a-wrenching-and-divisive-union-drive-24938


A labor organizer’s account of a wrenching and divisive union drive

ON THE LINE: A STORY OF CLASS, SOLIDARITY, AND TWO WOMEN'S EPIC FIGHT TO BUILD A UNION BY DAISY PITKIN. CHAPEL HILL, NC: ALGONQUIN BOOKS.

~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~

Saturday, June 11, 2022

A Coup. A Plan. A Conspiracy.

 

Rejecting war is not enough: racism dooms peace ~~ CLAUDIA WEBBEJUNE 7, 2022

 https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/rejecting-war-is-not-enough-racism-dooms-peace/

The othering of non-white, non-European people serves to diminish the reality of their suffering

~~recommended by emil karpo ~~

“Shipping Chaos Is the Latest Sign that Capitalism Is Eating Itself”, May 31, 2022, ~~ Grace Blakeley, Tribune,

  https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/05/globalisation-shipping-global-trade >.

Capitalism rests on a network of privately-owned infrastructure, with shipping at its heart – but now the industry is in chaos as the profiteering of rentier corporations sends the world system into meltdown.

~~ recommended by dmorista ~~

Saturday, June 4, 2022

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Racist and Violent Ideas Jump From Web’s Fringes to Mainstream Sites ~~ Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson June 1, 2022

 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/technology/fringe-mainstream-social-media.html

Despite some efforts by the largest tech companies to limit the spread of hateful content, it often remains only a click or two away.

NB note, there are some interesting graphics which the Blogger template would not accept.  They are:  tracking the Buffalo murderer's online activity and videos he watched in the last few months.  Also, can't get rid of the huge spaces.  Despite these setbacks, it seemed worthwhile to post this article anyway

THE BROOKLYN HOLOGRAM STUDIO RECEIVING MILLIONS FROM THE CIA ~~Lee Fang, Jack Poulson May 27 2022, 6:00 a.m.

 


In-Q-Tel — the CIA’s venture capital arm — and the military are investing heavily in the metaverse. There are growing concerns they’re wasting taxpayer money.


~~ recommended by emil karpo ~~