Verdict on 2005 assassination of former Lebanese PM exonerates two other members

Is inflation going to rise once the lockdowns from the pandemic have been relaxed?  Mainstream economics has no idea. 

"Unprecedented central bank intervention reassured the financial system, but for the real world the outlook is bleak, says Larry Elliott, Guardian economics editor ...  The gulf between what is happening in the real world and what is happening in the financial markets has never been wider"

The protests in Belarus have widely been painted as a pro-Western “color revolution” or “Minsk Maidan,” ignoring the deeper reasons for popular discontent with president Alexander Lukashenko. Jacobin spoke to left-wingers in Belarus about the forces behind the protests and the prospects of organized labor asserting its own agenda.

As governments collect vast amounts of data on their citizens, decision-making is increasingly outsourced to algorithm – in the hope that behaviour can be modified and sites of democratic resistance diminished.

As unemployment remains high, CERB remains an important way to keep Canadians afloat. We should continue fighting for its survival. But the long-term idea of converting CERB to basic income, both as a policy and strategy for the left, is less a matter of principle and imagining the possible than it is a gamble with conservatives and free market fetishists.

By Paris Marx | There is no path to meeting climate targets and avoiding devastation that doesn't run through a dramatic reduction in the use of cars. Now is the time to seize on this reality and invest in the alternatives.