The International Criminal Court (ICC) claims to have a neutral perspective. They made some accusations about human rights in Venezuela that I am skeptical of. The ICC wants to investigate the US for war crimes and the US said hell no we are gonna sanction you using your investigation of afghanistan as an excuse.
ICC statement: https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=200611-icc-statement
https://www.rt.com/news/491537-us-economic-sanctions-icc/ (Note: RT has been platforming white supremacists lately…)
Russia and China are moving away from USD. US supposedly hit peak oil? Coronavirus is still an issue causing hella unemployment. The US economy is probably about to implode. When? Democratic party is pushing these narratives because they want to see Trump fail. But they have some substance. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/U.S.-Production-to-Contract-up-to-30-Percent-in-the-Next-Quarter-20200428-0004.html — 20 to 30% “contraction” in “second quarter”. That’s several times last quarter https://www.bea.gov/news/2020/gross-domestic-product-1st-quarter-2020-advance-estimate . I don’t know what to expect I’m not an economist. https://www.mintpressnews.com/american-exceptionalism-on-the-ropes-end-of-the-us-dollar-is-nigh/268575/ — A lot of economic stuff here I don’t get.
A part of New York cancelled rent debt for the last 3 months. Heck? That’s not very capitalist of you.
Ithaca Tenants Union is posting about it. They petitioned to make this happen, and the city actually did it! https://www.ithacatu.org/etpa https://www.change.org/p/ithaca-common-council-pass-the-ithaca-cancelrent-bill-on-wednesday-june-3?recruited_by_id=533e5260-6943-11ea-8a70-b551d9051679
https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/as-ithaca-cancels-rent-we-are-seeing-the-economic-system-break-down-in-unprecedented-ways-economist/ AlterNet isn’t ideal but Richard Wolff is a marxist and they platform him here.
PSL already made a nice statement mostly about the history of the chaz. I could do a chaz/chop mythbuster type thing, but I’m not in seattle so idk. The right wing esp. tucker carlson is running a really fake smear campaign. Liberals are trying to soften up the story or just ignore it. Trump is a piece of shit and he says there’s 10 ways he can crack down on the protest and won’t tell us a single one.
PSL covers these. BT does a great job. You thought we would run out of energy? Think again. Black lives matter, they will always matter, but black people are still getting killed. The PSL in Milwaukee is doing a black-led protest this saturday, too.
Police are killing black people. White supremacists are killing black people. Black people are dying “mysteriously”. This bullshit has been going on way too long and it’s got to stop. Black lives matter! Is there a list of recent black deaths? Makes me sick. https://www.mintpressnews.com/police-reform-protests-biden-democrats-choosing-tough-on-crime-harris-running-mate/268552/ “tough on crime” democrats don’t have any promise here. Take off that Kente cloth!
I like this take a lot. Using BLM to raise awareness about international issues isn’t an easy task.
Israleis execute autistic man https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-execution-eyad-hallaq-not-exception-but-norm/268455/
OP-ED: Racism is behind both minneapolis and palestine https://electronicintifada.net/content/minneapolis-palestine-racism-common-enemy/30341
HK pretenders cough protestors have been destroying stuff and now China is cracking down. It’s still one country two systems, this is just a new development.
Xinhua explains some basic facts about the law: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-05/23/c_139082031.htm
CGTN goes over some translation of the law text: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-28/China-adopts-draft-decision-on-national-security-legislation-for-HK-QRntzbPTry/index.html
Carrie Lam (leader of HKSAR) says it will be just fine https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-05-28/Carrie-Lam-signs-petition-supporting-national-security-legislation-QRencdkIVi/index.html
Trump says he’s gonna sanction them and/or bring business HK supply chains to the US. IDK what he will do. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/trump-hints-action-china-hong-kong-security-law-200527011341231.html
Maybe because China is showing its power with HK, the US is afraid of losing taiwan? These war hawks are always treating other countries like pieces in a chess game. Anyway, they want to economically reward countries that trade with taiwan, and I can already tell mainland has steam coming out of their ears.
RoK starting putting out propoganda pamphlets to the dprk and they did NOT like that. They are cutting off diplomatic ties. RoK is still doing military displays, etc. too and things are not looking good.
DPRK blew up an RoK office https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3089244/north-korea-reportedly-blows-kaesong-liaison-office-near-border
This follows a dramatic statement by Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jong-Un’s sister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krUp88B3yOQ
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14901 China sends aid to Venezuela - <3 <3 <3 https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14894 US sanctions 4 companies shipping oil to Venezuela
Your teachers were right. Wikipedia is not reliable. https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-loving-founder-and-wikimedia-foundations-regime-change-operative-ceo/ Wikipedia is censoring a bunch of news sites, both ones labeled far-left and far right. They have a huge liberal bias that shows. smh jimmy. https://www.mintpressnews.com/project-venezuela-right-wing-activists-push-wikipedia-blacklist-mintpress-news/268534/ — They specifically target venezuela. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources#Sources — List of sources they censor. That’s it. From now on I’m using Baidu Baike.
Facebook is censoring palestineans. https://electronicintifada.net/content/facebook-follows-israels-script/30446
Twitter deletes accounts favoring CCP. https://www.mintpressnews.com/hawkish-think-tank-twitter-decision-delete-chinese-accounts/268524/