RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/June 2020

June 2020
John Bolton's book on Trump shows that Bolton is the real villain The American banking system might be on the verge of collapse and big financial institutions have learned nothing from the Great Recession Thailand newspaper trolls western media by using its condescending language to describe US protests Beyond 'China, Inc': Understanding the relationship between the CCP and chinese companies Mapping the states' strategy of repression against the protests Calls to reform, defund, dismantle and abolish the police: explained Sex Offender Registries Are Fueling Mass Incarceration — And They Aren’t Helping Survivors The potential and limitations of reforestion as a climate solution How the anti-vaccination movement went from "crunchy granola" liberals to far-right crusaders. Life and times at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone [https://jimmeruk.com/covidcounter/count.html Three and a half months into a global pandemic, tens of thousands of people have died in the UK. The numbers are almost meaningless, so JimmerUK tried to put them in perspective.] Why Americans never call themselves just "Americans" The long history of racial and economic unrest in Seattle Bad Diet & Bad Hair Destroy Human Civilization by Aline and R. Crumb Donald Trump's disastrous June just keeps getting uglier for him Top 16 euphemism that US headline writers have used for police brutality Is OAN the Leading Edge of Russian Misinformation? Election Day is in five months. And the people best positioned to knock down the Russian misinformation apparatus seem most interested instead in propping it up. China's plan to win control of the global order: How the CCP sees its conflict with the West as not a matter of military might but a question of descrediting liberal values A running list about the hoaxes and misleading claims about the nationwide protests against police brutality Nationwide uprising against a failed state The Nib presenting Great Moments in Peaceful Protest America at the breaking point: Or the social upheaval of the 1960s meets the political polarization and institutional dysfunction of the present