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Protesting Farmers ‘Are Being Misled’. Really?

Ronak Chhabra Newsclick
From how the Green Revolution actually harmed farmers from Punjab and Haryana to what needs to be done now, farmers seem pretty well-versed with their agriculture. New farm laws are feared to be leading to a ‘corporatisation’ of rural India.

‘Refusing to Serve in the Army is My Small Act of Making Change’

Oren Ziv +972 Magazine
Israeli conscientious objector Hallel Rabin.
Hallel Rabin spent 56 days in an Israeli military prison for refusing to serve in the Israel Defense Force. Rabin, 19, talks about her time behind bars, conversations with her fellow inmates, and talking to young Israelis about the occupation.

Caste Links US Racism to Oppressive Structures in India and Nazi Germany.

Gaiutra Bahadur The New Republic
Book cover of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.
Pulitzer prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson’s new book Caste strives to reveal the structures of US oppression and build kinship. But, while she effectively uses the vocabulary of a systemic problem, the solutions she suggests are not systemic.

AI Tackles Protein Folding (And Wins)

Marc Zimmer The Conversation
I expect AlphaFold2 and its progeny will soon be the methods of choice to determine protein structures before resorting to experimental techniques that require painstaking, laborious work on expensive instrumentation.

Georgia Teens Trying to Flip 60,000 Students

Lauren Floyd Daily Kos
“Our goal is to flip these elections entirely through the student voting bloc." More than 23,000 Georgians are turning 18 between Nov. 3 and Jan. 5 and are eligible to vote in the Senate runoff election.

Friday Nite Videos | December 4, 2020

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Racism Has a Cost for Everyone | Heather C. McGhee. Don't Let My Hair Dye Run | Founders Sing. The War on Cuba — Episode 1. Trump's Lie-atribe, With the Lies Removed. A Self-Pardon Is Incompatible With the Constitution.

Tidbits - Dec. 3, 2020 - Reader Comments: Stopping Future Authoritarians, Working Class Voters, Urban-Rural Divide; Nursing Home Workers; Georgia Runoff; Biblical Roots of Socialism; China; How to Rebuild the Economy; Discount/Free Books; Announcements;

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Reader Comments: Stopping Future Authoritarians, Working Class Voters; Nursing Home Workers; Georgia Runoff; Urban-Rural Voter Divide; Biblical Roots of Socialism; China; How to Rebuild the U.S. Economy; Discount/Free Books; Resources; Announcements;

Profits Over People: Frontline Workers During the Pandemic

Martin Hart-Landsberg Reports from the Economic Front
Across the 13 companies in our analysis, revenue was up an average of 14% over last year, while profits rose 39%. Stock prices rose on average 30% since the end of February. In total...