Blinken warned Arab American leaders: "If Palestine becomes a state, there will be global starvation" ( media.mas.to )
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/480/377/447/108/130/original/f37e51dae2b8df88.mp4
Biden announces new tariffs on Chinese EVs, semiconductors, solar cells and more ( lemmygrad.ml )
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/14/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes-action-to-protect-american-workers-and-businesses-from-chinas-unfair-trade-practices/
Progressive African American journalist fired for pro-Palestine stance ( www.workers.org )
The Hill’s firing of Gray was in retaliation for an interaction between her and Yarden Gonen, whose sister was allegedly taken hostage during the al-Aqsa Flood. Throughout the interview, Gray calmly and cordially disagreed with Gonen, who was espousing Islamophobic and anti-Arab bigotry, as well as repeating the debunked...
U.S. police have arrested more protesters in just two weeks, than the Hong Kong police arrested in four violent months in 2019. ( media.mas.to )
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/378/032/678/390/649/original/87e40ae93d3ba51b.mp4
Second Iranian university offers scholarships to expelled students in US, Europe ( www.presstv.ir )
BASED
🤡Blinken🤡 discovers a genocide, just not the one his regime is aiding and abetting, turns out the actual genocide is not in Gaza it's in Xinjiang. ( www.reuters.com )
The United States might be stumbling toward a decline from which few great powers have ever recovered. ( www.washingtonpost.com )
https://archive.ph/ojVDk
U.S. lawmakers urge Blinken to issue 'do not travel' notice for Xinjiang. Can't have people seeing what Xinjiang is actually like. ( asia.nikkei.com )
China lives rent free in the heads of Americans giving them anxiety ( www.nytimes.com )
Remember, All This Fascism Would Feel Way More Fascismy Under Trump ( www.caitlinjohnst.one )
People close to Biden claim his mental state getting worse ( www.wsj.com )
Yellen was stumped by the question: Is it possible we’re just being outcompeted by the Chinese in those (electric vehicles, batteries, all of those things.) ( www.marketplace.org )
https://archive.ph/E0JUs
More Americans say they are living paycheck to paycheck this year than in 2023 ( www.cnbc.com )
Texas Secessionsts Win GOP Backing for Independence Vote: 'Major Step' ( www.newsweek.com )
The courageous stance of students across the country in defiance of genocide is accompanied by a near total blackout of their voices. Their words are the ones we most need to hear. ( chrishedges.substack.com )
Applying the same standards ( lemmygrad.ml )
Turns out the Epoch Times was a giant money laundering operation ( www.justice.gov )
Brown University agrees to hold Israel divestment vote after pressure from student protesters ( thehill.com )
The protests are working!
Denver police refuse to clear student encampment in Auraria ( www.workers.org )
Chief Ron Thomas refused to dismantle the demonstration, which he said was very peaceful, for a second time. He said “there is no legal way” for officers to dismantle the demonstration “unless they do something that creates an unlawful assembly. We are absolutely not going to go in and sweep out this peaceful protest just...
U.S. lifts weapons ban on azov ( www.washingtonpost.com )
https://archive.ph/HOfxH
Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward over safety concerns ( www.theguardian.com )
Columbia University threatens to deploy National Guard to evict Gaza solidarity encampment ( peoplesdispatch.org )
40% of US DoD (dept. of defense) weapons system and infrastructure supply chains rely on Chinese semiconductors ( cdn.prod.website-files.com )
Lawsuit reveals Chiquita’s rôle in financing Colombian death squads ( www.workers.org )
The AUC didn’t just receive funding and weaponry from the U.S. and Chiquita. [Herzlian] settlers traveled to Colombia to train AUC gunmen. Fifty of the AUC’s most effective assassins were sent to [the Middle East] on “scholarship” to train with [a neocolonial] military. In May 2002, an [imperialist] defense contractor...
