Wealth Issues in Sonoma County
Madison Young | indybay.org | 2021-05-15
This piece focuses on the issues revolving around the building of the Green Music Center, while Sonoma County is facing a poverty and homelessness crisis.
indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/12/18842463.php

Forced Sterilizations Haunt Peruvian Candidate Keiko Fujimori
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-15
Peru's Association of Women Affected by Forced Sterilizations (AMPAEF) announced that this Tuesday they will hold a sit-in at the headquarters of the Palace of Justice, in the capital Lima, to continue demanding "truth, justice, and reparations" in their case. | A representation of women affected by a program that was implemented during the neoliberal government of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) will participate in the protest, through which hundreds of thousands of women in situations of poverty and vulnerability were forced to deprive themselves of their rights, and their possibility of conceiving children. | Thi…
orinocotribune.com/forced-sterilizations-haunt-peruvian-candidate-keiko-fujimori/

Sanders Rejects Top Dems' Push for a Big Tax Break for the Rich
Jake Johnson | zcomm.org | 2021-05-15
"You can't be on the side of the wealthy and the powerful if you're going to really fight for working families."
zcomm.org/znetarticle/sanders-rejects-top-dems-push-for-a-big-tax-break-for-the-rich/

Elbowed and Hustled: Australia's Yellow Peril Problem
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-05-15
With the babble about Cold War paranoia becoming a routine matter in Canberra, the treacherous ground for war with China is being bedded down and readied. The Yellow Peril image never truly dissipated from Australia's politics. It was crucial in framing the first act of the newly born Commonwealth in 1901: the Immigration Restriction Act. …
dissidentvoice.org/2021/05/elbowed-and-hustled-australias-yellow-peril-problem/

The Republics of 'Rumplandia' & the Security of the Unborn
Editor2 | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-15
By El Cayapo — May 11, 2021 | The global monopolistic process of the large transnationals pursues the goal of a single owner on the planet. This requires the elimination of nation-states and corporate taxation, the appropriation of the wealth administered by the states. We are talking about savings banks, trusts, contributions, health and housing insurance, subsidies, benefits, pensions and other demands, achieved by the working class during their struggles. They also seek to control directly the areas of natural resources, raw materials, energies and very cheap labor. | Let us look at the cases of Iraq, Lib…
orinocotribune.com/the-republics-of-rumplandia-the-security-of-the-unborn/

California Trial of Universal Basic Income Inspires More Cities to Follow Suit
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-05-14
It's probably safe to say that a few years ago, most Americans weren't familiar with the term universal basic income, commonly abbreviated as UBI. But more recently, as the idea has grown in popularity among the tech community, and with Andrew Yang's presidential run putting it into the political spotlight, the idea of every…
truthout.org/articles/california-trial-of-universal-basic-income-inspires-more-cities-to-follow-suit/

The Economic Recovery Is Mostly Benefitting White Families
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-05-14
The United States is slowly emerging from the COVID-19 economic recession. The unemployment rate has dropped by more than half. People are spending more money now than they did before the pandemic began. Families are paying off their credit card debt again. | Yet these milestones mask an uncomfortable truth: The economic rec…
truthout.org/articles/the-economic-recovery-is-mostly-benefitting-white-families/

The Arts and Culture of a Just Transition
Sepideah Mohsenian-Rahman | commondreams.org | 2021-05-14
"A just transition means moving towards a regenerative economy, characterized by explicit anti-racist, anti-poverty, feminist, intersectional approaches to living." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/mamigabbs-1.jpg …
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Solidarity with Colombia in the Netherlands
Staff | orinocotribune.com | 2021-05-14
Several thousands marched and protested against the repressive Colombian regime — the Dutch Press agency ANP however counted only a few dozen. | On Friday, May 7, protest demonstrations were announced in The Hague and Amsterdam in solidarity with Colombians who are striking and fighting against the many human rights violations and Neo-liberal exploitation and poverty in their country. | This was prompted by a number of measures that would make life even worse and harder for many Colombians, such as huge VAT increases, petrol price hikes, dismantling of social services, freezing civil servants' salaries, …
orinocotribune.com/solidarity-with-colombia-in-the-netherlands/

Selected Articles: "Greater Israel": The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2021-05-14
The Big Lie Strategy of the "Global Super-Rich". The Weaknesses of the Human Mind | By Emanuel Pastreich, May 13, 2021 | The massive concentration of wealth over the last few years has made it possible for a tiny handful of …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-greater-israel-zionist-plan-middle-east/5745228

How Corporations Pumped Up CEO Pay While Their Low-Wage Workers Suffered in the Pandemic
Sarah Anderson | counterpunch.org | 2021-05-14
During the pandemic, low-wage workers have lost income, jobs, and lives. And yet many of the nation's top-tier corporations have been fixated on protecting their wealthy CEOs, even bending their own rules to pump up executive paychecks. A new Institute for Policy Studies report finds that 51 of the country's 100 largest low-wage employers moved…
counterpunch.org/2021/05/14/how-corporations-pumped-up-ceo-pay-while-their-low-wage-workers-suffered-in-the-pandemic/

COVID-19: Wealthy nations urged to delay youth vaccines, donate to solidarity scheme
news.un.org | 2021-05-14
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday appealed for wealthier countries to delay vaccinating younger people against COVID-19 and instead donate doses to the COVAX global vaccine solidarity initiative.
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