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Saturday, March 20, 2021

In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests

 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/20/us/protests-policing-george-floyd.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

For many long weeks last summer, protesters in American cities faced off against their own police forces in what proved to be, for major law enforcement agencies across the country, a startling display of violence and disarray.

Has Biden’s Description of Putin as a Killer Finally Dispelled Kremlin Hopes for Good Relations?

 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56472.htm

Paul Craig Roberts

March 20, 2021

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to Biden’s unacceptable characterization of Russia’s president as a killer by stating that Biden had made it clear that “he doesn’t want to normalize relations.”  In the Kremlin does hope burn eternal?  It has been obvious to me for many years that Washington does not want normal relations with Russia or any country. Washington wants a hegemonic relationship with Washington as the hegemon and Russia as the obedient puppet as Russia was during the Yeltsin decade.

2021 Update: Half of America In or Near Poverty

 https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/22/2021-update-half-america-or-near-poverty

Paul Buchheit

Poverty, as defined by the World Bank, is a "pronounced deprivation in well-being." This describes the millions of Americans who are unable to pay for medical treatment; who suffer the stress of delinquent rent and mortgage payments; who see a steady decline of jobs that pay enough to support a family; and who are victims of the surge in drug and alcohol and suicide "deaths of despair" that continue to increase among poor Americans during the COVID-19 crisis.
The facts and numbers from numerous sources reflect the reality of deprivation in America, and help to 
confirm what has been called the "sharpest rise in the U.S. poverty rate since the 1960s."