RSH 89 -- But If I Don't Steal It, Somebody Else Will (5.13.2021)

Recorded May 12, 2021. Adam and Peter talk about the COVID-19 catastrophe in India and the human toll in the country. Then they talk about protests in Colombia and a deadly police raid in Brazil, the deadliest in Rio's history, and how police violence in Brazil targeting mostly poor Black people is similar to the racist police violence in the United States. After that, they focus half of the episode talking about Israel-Palestine, specifically the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and protests against the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah by Israeli settlers which has now escalated into intense violence between Israel and Palestine, especially current Israeli airstrikes and bombing of Gaza (the airstrikes are now intensifying and there are Israeli ground troops near Gaza preparing for invasion: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/13/israel-bombs-high-rise-buildings-as-gaza-marks-deadly-eid-live ). 

Links: COVID-19 catastrophe in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbZLE4WvTg4&t=4s , https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/28/crime-against-humanity-arundhati-roy-india-covid-catastrophe , https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/estimating-covid-deaths-india.html , https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-bidens-push-for-vaccine-patent-waivers-wont-save-india , (U.S. waves vaccine patent: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/biden-says-plans-back-wto-waiver-vaccines-2021-05-05/ ) ; protests in Colombia: https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/could-colombias-protests-derail-its-basic-income-experiment/ , https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/world/americas/colombia-protests-police-brutality.html , https://www.npr.org/2021/05/09/995173022/deadly-protests-against-economic-inequality-and-police-brutality-continue-in-col , https://www.afroresistance.org/post/colombia-is-awake, https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombian-cities-brace-more-covid-infections-after-protests-2021-05-11/ ; deadly police raid in Rio de Janeiro: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/8/death-toll-from-police-raid-on-rio-de-janeiro-favela-increases , https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-57000382 , https://time.com/6047032/jair-bolsonaro-crime-policies-brazils-favelas/, https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/07/was-massacre-brazilian-police-kill-two-dozen-deadliest-favela-raid-rios-history ; Israel/Palestine (Israeli settlers expel Palestinian families from their homes, leads to protests, now the situation has escalated; this is the context of Israel's ongoing occupation of Palestine and apartheid against Palestinians): https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/11/sheikh-jarrah-residents-speak-out-on-israels-forced-expulsions , https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/10/world-reacts-after-israeli-forces-wound-hundreds-in-al-aqsa-raid , https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/10/jerusalem-seethes-as-the-rockets-begin-on-day-of-rising-tension , https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/israel-kills-9-palestinians-in-gaza-injures-hundreds-in-jerusalem-as-al-aqsa-tensions-flare/ , https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/12/unicef-warns-looming-full-scale-war-israel-continues-bombing-gaza , (Israeli settler argues with a Palestinian and wants to steal their home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNqozQ8uaV8&t=1s ) 

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