British MI6 assassinated Patrice Lumumba?
The killing of Patrice Lumumba was one of the most significant assassinations of the 20th century. The signal moment in the West’s campaign to destroy the nascent independence of de-colonising Africa. The MI6 agent who organised it. Daphne Park, then becomes a governor of the BBC https://t.co/ltTIJ24idG
— Keir Milburn (@KeirMilburn) June 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1277398878526963712
Jeremy Scahill interviews historian Robin D.G. Kelley on Racial Capitalism and New Generation of Abolitionists
Podcast: https://play.acast.com/s/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill/therebellionagainstracialcapitalism
you cannot say that it doesn't seem reasonable.
Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump
‘…ran has issued an arrest warrant for US President Donald Trump over the drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in January [….] Interpol said it “would not consider requests of this nature.” It explained that it was not in accordance with its rules and constitution, which states “it is strictly forbidden for the organization to undertake any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character.”…’
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/29/middleeast/iran-arrest-warrant-donald-trump-intl/index.html
be thankful for half-baked socialism, I guess...
Gilead’s remdesivir will cost $3,120 for patients with private insurance
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gilead-remdesivir-coronavirus-treatment-private-insurance/
‘Patients who are covered by government programs like Medicaid will be charged $2,340 for a typical treatment course.’
https://twitter.com/uhshanti/status/1277444660844048387
‘…The dining room is a re-creation of a residence chamber in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, constructed in 1458 by Luca Pitti, though its more famous residents included the Medicis and Napoleon Bonaparte…’
https://www.stlmag.com/design/a-decades-long-renovation-returns-a-midwestern-palazzo-to-it/
COVID19: Germany and UK compared
‘…Most importantly of all, Germany was much better prepared. This was true both of the German state and of German industry. Germany had a manufacturing sector capable of making the medical equipment the country needed. Its health spending had risen in real terms for most years since the millennium. Contact tracing was also well developed across the German health system before the pandemic and was able to swing into action straightaway. Germany had many more intensive care beds too; 28,000, compared with Britain’s 4,000. Above all, German testing worked: while Britain abandoned mass testing in March, Germany conducted 160,000 tests a week that month, rising to 360,000 tests by mid-May. The contrast between the two countries was in most respects pitiful…’
‘…The New York Police Department (NYPD) commissioner on Monday defended the officers who drove into anti-policy brutality protesters late last month, saying they did not violate the department’s use-of-force policy…’
NYPD officers just drove an SUV into a crowd of human beings. They could‘ve killed them, &we don’t know how many they injured.
NO ONE gets to slam an SUV through a crowd of human beings.@NYCMayor these officers need to be brought to justice, not dismissed w/“internal reviews.” https://t.co/oIaBShSC1S
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 31, 2020
Richard Wolff: ‘..what that effectively means is that the government is backstopping the entire credit apparatus of the United States. It already stands behind most homes through the mortgage systems that we’ve developed since the 30s and now it is standing behind all the corporate loans because in effect it becomes the banker of last resort.
Any idea that the economy is now quote-unquote a free private enterprise economy is is downright silly as well as ideologically backward.
We now have an economic system utterly dependent on the creation of money by our Central Bank I could go on but these are signs of disintegration of one kind of economic system and the transition towards another. One it’s not clear exactly where this will end but as I said to you this is a level of breakdown that is really impossible for me to find in the prior history of our capitalism…’
