Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers | US Medicare | The Guardian

A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents
— Read on www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/unitedhealth-nursing-homes-payments-hospital-transfers

The Salvadoran trail of Ronald Johnson, Trump’s man for Mexico | U.S. | EL PAÍS English

The retired colonel’s tenure as ambassador to El Salvador lasted less than two years, but it was enough for him to forge a personal friendship with President Nayib Bukele. During the country’s civil war in the 1980s, he led combat and counterinsurgency operations
— Read on english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-12/the-salvadoran-trail-of-ronald-johnson-trumps-man-for-mexico.html

Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: from modernisation to Marxism in the 1960s – ScienceOpen

Immanuel Wallerstein’s intellectual journey toward developing world-systems analysis began with his significant involvement in African studies during the 1960s. This article explores how Wallerstein’s decade as an Africanist, marked by his deep engagement with the decolonisation movements across the continent, laid the foundation for his later Marxist-oriented critique of the capitalist world-economy.
— Read on www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document

The New York War Crimes | “All the Consent That’s Fit to Manufacture”

What follows is the first English translation, by Alex Jreisat, of the Palestinian revolutionary intellectual and martyr Basel al-Araj’s essay Al-dhakirah al-jarīhah lil-nakbah (“The Wounded Memory of the Nakba”), which explores political questions of memory during and after catastrophe through unflinching portraits of several geographies that faced Zionist annihilation campaigns from 1947 to 1949, including Tantura, Deir Yassin, and al-Dawayima. The study then presents three narrative themes focused on the tools of extermination during the Nakba: extermination by incineration in al-Tira, by biological warfare in Akka, and by death march in al-Lidd and al-Ramleh. While the work below is harrowing and brutal, it is a fitting rejoinder to any who believe the destruction of Palestinian life to have begun with the al-Aqsa Flood operation.
— Read on newyorkwarcrimes.com/the-wounded-memory-of-the-nakba

Corrina Gould: The Myth Of Lisjan, and the Erosion of Tribal Sovereignty – Alameda Native History Project 2025

Exposing the fabricated identity of Corrina Gould and the Confederated Villages of Lisjan, this article documents how land and funding meant for Ohlone people have been diverted away from the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe—the only historically and legally recognized Ohlone tribal government in the East Bay.
— Read on nativehistoryproject.org/post/articles/corrina-gould-the-myth-of-lisjan-and-the-erosion-of-tribal-sovereignty/

CrimethInc. : The Occupation of the Sha’ban al-Dalou Building : A Report-Back from the University of Washington

Participants in the occupation of the engineering building at the University of Washington explore their motivations and recount the events in detail.
— Read on crimethinc.com/2025/05/09/the-occupation-of-the-shaban-al-dalou-building-a-report-back-from-the-university-of-washington