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Are the effects of Long Covid on the workforrce “material”? Plus the labor market, labor force participation, “the economy,” etc.

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread ~

On the plans to destroy the Al Aqsa mosque, one of the most sacred site in Islam, and the conflagration it would generate.

The conservative Supremes appear set to side with Starbucks in an upcoming case that will hurt union organizing across the country. 

What Michael Hudson learned about Palestinians from the Mossad 50 years ago: “The aim all along has been to kill them.”

Putin has said Ukraine conflict is existential threat to Russia, but there are signs the Western capitalist class is dealing with their own existential crises. Will their greed get us all killed?

Some struggles can be kept nonviolent, but decolonization never has been—certainly not in India.

Fining, arresting, and jailing people for a lack of housing is never the solution—and compounds existing housing inequities.

Germany sends the cops to shut down a conference on Palestine on trumped-up grounds. What next?

~ Today’s Water Cooler: Politics and pandemics, Shananhan at the border, FDR’s “fireside chats,” H5N1 testing, the warrantless surveillance zombie staggers on ~

As the rich become both richer and better bunkered, the young are finally realizing that wealth disparity is a big part of what ails them.