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May 28, 2021

27 Million Soviet Citizens Lost Their Lives Fighting the Nazis, Westerners Comparing USSR to Hitler's Germany Insult Their Memory

Bradley Blankenship Russia Today

With Victory Day here again, World War II historical revisionism kicks back into gear. The reason this is becoming such a hot issue once again is that the debate over the past has serious implications for today’s geopolitics.

May 28, 2021

Bosses are acting like the pandemic never happened

Anna North Vox

Now, with vaccinations on the rise and summer approaching, a lot of employers are going back to business as usual. Workers have leverage at this moment.

May 28, 2021

Biden Banks on $3.6 Trillion Tax Hike on the Rich and Corporations

Alan Rappeport The New York Times

The White House is proposing substantial increases in personal income tax rates for those earning about a half-million dollars and higher tax rates on large corporations. Republicans are aghast.

May 28, 2021

Capitalism and the Caring Economy

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect

The entire caregiving sector needs to be separated from the commercial economy. Otherwise, we pay exorbitant costs for inadequate services and abuse workers and patients alike.

May 28, 2021

What Is Sovereignty? A Conversation About American Colonialism

Jason Wilson The Guardian

Jacqueline Keeler, the author of a new book on standoffs with the government, tells Jason Wilson why the colonial relationship on which the US was founded needs to be renegotiated

May 28, 2021

'Filibuster or Democracy' After GOP Nixes 1-6 Commission

Jake Johnson Common Dreams

"Unless we abolish the filibuster, there will be no progress on any agenda focused on justice, fairness, or basic survival," said Sen. Ed Markey.

Chile: Left and Independent Forces Win Big

May 28, 2021

A new constitution that will likely shape Chile's future for decades will be written by victorious left and independent candidates, who decisively defeated the conservative coalition of President Sebastian Pinera.

When Earth Was a Planet of the Apes

May 28, 2021

More than ten million years ago, the world was brimming with a wide variety of apes. New studies of ape fossils provide clues how humans evolved.

Leaked Video: Dark Money Group Is Writing Voter Suppression Laws

May 28, 2021

In a private meeting last month with big-money donors, the head of a top conservative group boasted that her outfit had crafted the new voter suppression law in Georgia and was doing the same with similar bills for Republican state legislators across the country.

Knockin' on Heaven's Door | Afro Fiesta w/Twanguero & I-Taweh

May 28, 2021

An intimate performance featuring Afro Fiesta along with Twanguero and I-Taweh on the occasion of Bob Dylan's 80th birthday.