IMPORTANT READS

BY THE PEOPLE - Perhaps the best possible thing we could acknowledge being is a “divided nation.” Failing to do so justifies — or at least avoids noticing — all manner of violent cruelty and repression in the name of so-called democracy, from the jailing of whistleblowers who reveal U.S. war crimes and global criminality, to the lynching of men and women of color . . .  to the waging of endless war.

COMMENTARY - Remember when the right-wing was all about supporting cops and maybe even a little police brutality?

Without racism running deep in their DNA, Trump's supporters would not have listened to a raving maniac president encouraging violence in order to remain in power. 

COMMENTARY - As a ROTC cadet and an Air Force officer, I was a tiny part of America’s vast Department of Defense (DoD) for 24 years until I retired and returned to civilian life as a history professor. 

CLIMATE WATCH - Apocalypse is complete destruction of the world as described in some detail in the biblical book of Revelation.

LABOR VIEW - Amazon founder and Richest Man in the World Jeff Bezos got shot into space on his very own rocket on July 20, two weeks after retiring and handing off the company to a successor, Andy Jassy, who previously ran Amazon web services. 

CLIMATE CHANGE - Wildfires, heatwaves, hurricanes and droughts: the deadly impacts of climate change are becoming more intense and devastating.

NEVER ENDING WARS - We should have abolished war after World War II. That war was so lethal and so destructive, even before the dropping of the atomic bombs, that had people understood that there is a real alternative to deadly violent conflict, humanity might have taken another path.

THE CITY - Rowing events on Monday have been rescheduled to accommodate Typhoon Nepartak, which formed Friday night to the southeast of Japan, is expected to make landfall in mainland Japan by Tuesday with Tokyo in the forecast cone.  

Rep. Ilhan Omar—the first Somali-American elected to Congress and an outspoken critic of U.S. militarism—on Friday sent a letter to President Joe Biden questioning his rationale behind its first drone strike in Somalia earlier this week,

July 27, 2021 marks the 68^th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Agreement, a battlefield truce that temporarily halted combat during the Korean War.

EDD NEWS-Desperate times call for desperate measures.

WORKFORCE WATCH-If the Senate passes, and President Biden signs, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, U.S. growers and labor contractors will benefit, but most farmworkers will not.

SPACE TRAVEL-Mere minutes after touching the edge of space, Jeff Bezos and his fellow Blue Origin crewmates stood back on Earth, shaking champagne at the throng of cameras pointed their way with grins wide enough to see from … well, space.

NUCLEAR STRATEGY-Let’s dance at the border! 

The Washington Post on Tuesday revealed that three presidents, 10 prime ministers, and a king are among the more than 50,000 individuals whose phone numbers appeared on a leaked list of potential targets of Pegasus,

VIEW FROM HERE-Previously, we noted how the CDC Director Rochelle Lewinsky’s announcement that Vaxed People Need Not Wear Masks sabotaged President’s Biden’s objective to unite the center of the nation by July 4, 2021.

CLIMATE WATCH-Climate scientists on Friday were stunned by the intensity of flooding in Germany and Belgium that killed at least 120 people and damaged tens of thousands of homes, with experts saying they did not expect such extreme weather to result from the human-caused climate crisis as rapidly as it has.

DACA WATCH-Immigrant rights advocates on Friday called for the immediate codification of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program into law after a federal judge in Texas blocked new DACA permit approvals in a ruling asserting that former President Barack Obama exceeded his authority when he implemented the policy that has protected hundreds of thousands of so-called Dreamers from deportation.

MIGRATION ECONOMICS-Earlier this month, a Honduran court found David Castillo, a U.S.-trained former Army intelligence officer and the head of an internationally financed hydroelectric company, guilty of the 2016 murder of celebrated Indigenous activist Berta Cáceres.

WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS-Over the last week, I have been watching the Taliban sweep across the map of northern Afghanistan, capturing places that I first visited in 2001 at the beginning of the US-backed war.