Daily Archives: August 21, 2021

2021-08-21: News Headlines

Joris Leverink (2021-08-21). Intersectional class struggle: from shared oppression to unified resistance. roarmag.org Protesters in Cali, Colombia — May 1, 2021. Photo: Farhanah Ali / Shutterstock.com | A fifth of the way through the 21st century, our world is riven by conflict and catastrophe and COVID-19 is accelerating our crises. The global pandemic has killed millions of people, with race, poverty and gender being

Editor (2021-08-21). In Somalia, the U.S. is bombing the very 'terrorists' it created. mronline.org This July, the Biden administration picked up where Trump left off and began bombing Somalia, a country with a gross domestic product of less than $6 billion and a poverty rate of 70 percent. But why?>

Olivia Engling (2021-08-21). IMF Creates Historic $650 Billion in Emergency Funds to Fight Pandemic. indybay.org Jubilee USA Estimates Wealthy G7 Countries Receive $280 billion and Developing Countries Receive $230 billion from an IMF Currency Creation…

Stephen F. Eisenman (2021-08-20). Is the Imminent End of Civilization a Winning Ticket for the GOP? counterpunch.org Opinion Guest Essay ————— Is the Imminent End of Civilization a Winning Ticket for the GOP? Stephen F. Eisenman Mr. Eisenman contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics, and inequality. Is the recent discovery that rising global temperatures will quickly render the Earth uninhabitable, a net plus for conservative Republicans? Will it

Ann Brown (2021-08-20). Report: Increased College Education Widened The Wealth Gap For Black America. moguldom.com Education is supposed to pave the path to a better life with better jobs and higher-paying salaries. Many thought that if more African Americans attended and graduated from college, it would help to close the massive racial wealth gap. But it turns out college education actually widened the wealth gap, according to a new report. …

Anna Livia Brand, The Conversation (2021-08-20). Slave-Built Infrastructure Still Creates Wealth In US, Reparations Should Cover Past Harms & Current Value Of Slavery. moguldom.com Joshua F.J. Inwood, Associate Professor of Geography Senior Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State and Anna Livia Brand, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley American cities from Atlanta to New York City still use buildings, roads, ports and rail lines built by enslaved people. The fact that centuries-old relics of slavery still …

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