19 June 2020 — Mint Press
Amazon has started testing on several social distancing technologies following demands for public safety amid COVID-19 and the intrusive changes will likely have a permanent effect on workers’ rights to privacy.
By Raul Diego
Should you be one of the dozens of people working minimum ten-hour shifts at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Kent, Washington these days, you might very well be at the vanguard of the “new normal” for American blue collar workplaces.
19 June 2020 — MintPress News
In an act of pure hypocrisy and obsessive cruelty, GOP Senators Marco Rubio, Rick Scott and Ted Cruz joined together to penalize developing nations who seek to take advantage of Cuba’s hands-on humanitarian work.
In what has already become a parody of a shrinking empire’s habit of clutching at the vestiges of its Cold-War era mistakes, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and fellow war-hungry reactionaries in the United States Senate, Rick Scott (R-FL) and Ted Cruz ((R-TX) have put a bill on the Senate floor meant to undercut Cuba’s medical missions program, which sends trained medics all around the developing world to assist in general healthcare services and emergencies in more than 60 countries.
22 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
A New Generation, Same Struggle / “Zero Degree Rage” Focuses Black Minds
/ Elite Deploy Spy Hi-Tech Against the People / Will Blacks Oppose or
Defend US Empire?
Originally published: TeleSUR English by Urooba Jamal (August 30, 2016)
Had he not been assassinated in a police fusilade on a bitterly cold Chicago evening 47 years ago, Fred Hampton would’ve turned 68 years old today. The former head of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense is remembered today primarily for his skills as an organizer, who coined the phrase “Rainbow Coalition” to describe his deft assemblage of a broad array of politicized actors, including Confederate flag-wearing, working-class whites, Latino gangbangers, Black professionals, wealthy white college students and autoworkers.
22 June 2020 — Jonathan Cook
[I immediately broke my own promise but Jonathan Cook writes such good analysis I had to spread the word. WB]
Israel subjugates its Palestinian citizens while being eager to showcase their successes in order to portray itself as a western-style democracy
An Israeli diplomat filed a complaint last week with police after he was pulled to the ground in Jerusalem by four security guards, who knelt on his neck for five minutes as he cried out: “I can’t breathe.”
22 June 2020 — The New Dark Age
I need to take a break from this, I am totally burned out. I’ve been running this blog for far too many years. This version started in 2003 but earlier versions first started in 1983 and ran until 1992.
This is not to say that I won’t add specific stories if and when they come along but my usual fair of 10-12 stories a day is on hold for awhile, the stress of life is just getting too much for me. On top of this, I’ve got ongoing health issues which this damn virus has made more difficult to deal with (eg NHS meltdown, leading to my doctor’s surgery being closed, leading to shortage of medications, leading to increased stress, leading to my elevated blood pressure!) Not good.
WB
The New Dark Age 