Daily Archives: August 2, 2021

2021-08-02: News Headlines

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-08-02). Fed Up With Democrats, Thousands March to Demand Medicare for All. counterpunch.org Activists in more than 50 cities across the United States marched and rallied on July 24 to demand a Medicare for All or single-payer health care system. With Congress and the White House more focused on passing an infrastructure bill, conducting an investigation into the January 6 Capitol riot, and reforming our immigration system, the

Pepe Escobar (2021-08-01). Requiem for an Empire: A Prequel. dissidentvoice.org The inexorable imperial rot will go on, a tawdry affair carrying no dramatic, aesthetic pathos worthy of a Gotterdammerung. Assaulted by cognitive dissonance across the spectrum, the Empire of Chaos now behaves as a manic depressive inmate, rotten to the core — a fate more filled with dread than having to face a revolt of the satrapies. …

_____ (2021-08-01). 'Block The Boat' Hits New Jersey. popularresistance.org Last weekend activists activists held an action at a port in Elizabeth, New Jersey, attempting to block an Israeli-operated cargo ship from unloading. The Haifa-based shipping company ZIM has been targeted by the BDS movement over its connection to Israeli apartheid and last month Bay Area protestors successfully stopped ZIM from offloading in Oakland.

Moderator (2021-08-01). Is Our Failed Empire Heading for the Exit? scheerpost.com U.S. Army] By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch It was all so long ago, in a world seemingly without challengers. Do you even remember when we Americans lived on a planet with a recumbent Russia, a barely rising China, and no obvious foes except what later came to be known as an " axis of evil," three countries then incapable of endangering this one? Oh, and, as it turned out, a rich young Saudi former… |

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