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May 21, 2020

MR Online | How Russia is botching its alliance with Syria
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Russia’s relationships with its client states have never been easy. Of course, managing client states is always a complicated exercise. The Kremlin’s cupboard is full of skeletons...

Collective action is essential | Briarpatch Magazine
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From socially-distanced protests to virtual union drives, five vital signs of worker organizing during COVID-19

Inside the black box: the public finances after coronavirus | IPPR
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The Covid-19 crisis will affect the public finances through higher unemployment, reduced tax revenue and substantial government spending on schemes to support the economy. Already there are calls for a return to austerity once the most acute phase of the medical emergency has passed. It can be difficult for citizens to take a position on these debates: many feel that they lack the technical knowledge.

Facebook Says Very Little on Privacy of Messenger Rooms
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Messenger Rooms won’t “watch or listen” to your calls. But Facebook won’t say how it will handle metadata like who you chat with and when.

Washing our Hands of Financialized Pensions - The Bullet
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The unemployment crisis brought on by the coronavirus outbreak has suddenly destroyed the earnings of hundreds of of thousands of working people in Canada.

American billionaires got $434 billion richer during the pandemic
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America's billionaires added $434 billion to their wealth between mid-March and mid-May

Ahmaud Arbery Murdered in Racist Attack, Now Slandered by Racist Media
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The New York Post published police footage of the 2017 arrest of Ahmaud Arbery, a racist smear that serves to justify his murder.

Nursing Home Patients and Workers Are at Ground Zero for Coronavirus
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The number of infections and deaths that have swept through US nursing homes is staggering. Organized nursing home workers are crucial to ending this devastation.

Venezuela says Iranian tankers will get military escort
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"Admiral Craig Faller, head of the Florida-based US Southern Command, said Monday that the United States is following the Iranian actions "with concern," but refrained from any comments on the tankers. Iran's Fars News claimed Saturday that four US Navy warships are in the Caribbean for a "possible confrontation with Iran's tankers."