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May 23, 2020

Making Life Cheap: Population Control, Herd Immunity, and Other Anti-Humanist Fables

Aaron Timms The New Republic

The Dalits of India, who are forced to work in the most unsafe conditions.

The death drive at the heart of the now discredited herd immunity strategy has morphed into a straightforwardly “eliminationist” scheme, presenting the slaughter of those most at risk from the coronavirus as a form of heroic, wartime sacrifice.

May 23, 2020

How ‘Jakarta’ Became the Codeword for US-Backed Mass Killing

Vincent Bevins New York Review of Books

Coups in Brazil in 1964 and Indonesia in 1965 were US Cold War victories. In Indonesia between 500,000 and 1,000,000 were killed. This led to the creation of a monstrous international network of extermination and our current global economic system.

May 23, 2020

Palestinian President Abbas Declares End to Agreements with Israel, US

Yumna Patel Mondoweiss

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks in Ramallah.

Faced with the looming threat of Israeli annexation, on Tuesday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared an end to all Palestinian agreements with Israel and the US. Analysts, however, are skeptical Abbas will follow through on his pledge.

May 23, 2020

Rev. Barber's Poor People's Campaign Calls for Resistance to Reopening Plans

Yonat Shimron National Catholic Reporter

The Poor People's Campaign urges elected officials to follow the recommendations of public health experts and not risk a resurgence of the virus, which is disproportionately affecting poor, uninsured, low-wage laborers, many of them "essential."

May 22, 2020