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Police treatment of two CNN reporters at a George Floyd protest shows the US has opposite systems of justice – one for white people, one for people of color

Organized labor throughout the city is banding together in solidarity against police violence in the aftermath of Floyd’s death.

This Pan-Africanism is, at its core, a people’s movement for the liberation of humanity from the exploitation of capitalism and imperialism.

This strategy of economic and social reconstruction necessarily involves not only equitable treatments of gender exclusion and reproduction, but social control or democratic governance for innovation, manufacturing, and the core “commanding heights”

Trump’s childish nuclear gambling and obsessive jingoism have combined in a strategy that could end arms control as we know it. Trump is seeking to end the Obama-era nuclear arms treaty with Russia, and for election purposes, blame it on the Chinese.

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz talks of Trump’s criminal response to Puerto Rico’s hurricanes as a precursor to this moment. Trump politically disappeared the victims of Irma and Maria in 2017; and is trying to do the same to victims of Covid-19.

If Foxconn establishes production in Wisconsin it will be in a highly automated capital-intensive facility that would not create anywhere near the number of jobs being bandied about. CEO Terry Gou clearly stated, "Automation, software and technology innovation will be our key focus in the U.S. in the coming few years.”Here’s reality: Cyber component manufacturing with large numbers of employees has mainly occurred in low-wage, marginally regulated countries.

It’s somehow fitting that a hedge fund investor who does no investing has now become the spokesman for a president who appears to do very little actual governing. What Scaramucci does very well, however, is promote Scaramucci. The Mooch’s antics make him Trump’s ideal Mini-Me. He’s another empty-hatted showboater, loudly distracting the audience from the pickpockets moving among them.

My book inquiring into the origins and veracity of the stories about disparaged Vietnam veterans came out in 1998. Little did I imagine at the time that, 20 years later, versions of the same stories would be figuring in remembrances appearing upon the 50th anniversaries of some important dates of the war in Vietnam.

As the president’s various scandals preoccupy media attention, we should focus on an issue that responds to what people urgently need and want.