Mississippi Autoworkers Mobilize

Michelle Chen Dissent Magazine
The standoff in the deep South between a black working-class community and a global auto giant reflects a broader anti-Trump resistance emerging in the labor movement, fueled by frustration with the empty promises of neoliberal “development” policies.

A Deadly Business: Big Tobacco Still Sees Big Profits in America's Poor

Jessica Glenza The Guardian
With friends in the White House, and a pending $49 billion merger, Big Tobacco is back. The US remains the “world’s largest tobacco profit pool” outside of China, with “exciting” prospects for “long term growth”. Mergers and acquisitions have allowed the deadly industry to squeeze huge profits from customers, increasingly the poor, less educated and marginalized, and the supply chain, contract farmers, and workers, including children, who work for poverty wages.

Friday Nite Videos | July 14, 2017

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Why Donald Trump Jr.'s Emails Change Everything. Neil Young | Children of Destiny. Capitalism Will Eat Democracy -- Unless We Speak Up | Yanis Varoufakis. Why Are We The Only Humans Left? Vladimir Putin Regime Marked By Graft And Corruption | On Assignment with Richard Engel.

Neil Young | Children of Destiny

Stand up for what you believe / Resist the 'powers that be' / Preserve the land and save the seas / For the children of destiny

Why Are We The Only Humans Left?

Not so long ago, homo sapiens shared the planet with close relatives, including Neanderthals. Who were they, and what happened to them?