Living at the End of the World
by HOWARD LISNOFF The coronavirus spreads like a kind of modern plague across the global landscape. The view from my study window is of the gently rolling hills of the Berkshires in the foothills of the […]
Category: Health
Nature’s Revenge: Climate Change and COVID-19
by EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Tehachapi, California. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The corona virus pandemic is no accident. Like past global epidemics, it’s a warning that nature has had it with the ecocidal proclivities of man. These outrageous […]
Roaming Charges: Always Look on the Bright Side of Death
by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR German Plague Doctor, 14th Century. + Francesco Rondonelli, a contemporary chronicler of the Florentine plague of 1629: “And who had heard an entire city praying at the same time all together … through […]
Six Quick—But Very Important—Points About Coronavirus and Poverty in the US
The most vulnerable among us simply do not have the same options as the most privileged. by:Bill Quigley St. Martin de Porres homeless shelter client Randy Armstrong says the coronavirus “sucks.” There are 212 mats […]
COVID in the Web Of Generations: A Faint Hello From the “Only” Ones
by RICHARD ESKOW Photograph Source: Gauthier DELECROIX – 郭天 – CC BY 2.0 “Only the old and weak will die.” That’s what some people are saying about COVID-19. The Prime Minister of Great Britain believes in “herd […]
Advocates Warn US Prison Conditions Risks Intense Coronavirus Outbreak
‘Nightmare Waiting to Happen’: Advocates Warn US Prison Conditions Risks Intense Coronavirus Outbreak “There is every reason to question whether American detention facilities, as a whole, are up to this challenge.” by: Julia Conley A […]
Survive and Revolt
by PAUL STREET Yankee Doodle, by Archibald MacNeal Willard. “I Don’t Take Responsibility at All” Millions of U.S. -Americans are no doubt aghast over the Supremely Dangerous Asshole (SDA) Donald Trump’s statement about the coronavirus crisis […]
The Coronavirus Is Not “The Plague”: It Is the U.S.
By Edward Curtin Global Research, “Two categories of propaganda must be distinguished. The first strives to create a permanent disposition in its objects and constantly needs to be reinforced. Its goal is to make the masses […]
Does the COVID-19 Crisis Have to Result in a Wealthier Wealthy?
by SARAH ANDERSON – SAM PIZZIGATI Photograph Nathaniel St. Clair In times of crisis — the current coronavirus pandemic, for instance — these sorts of calls for cooperation become the drumbeat of our daily lives. And […]
A Lesson Coronavirus is About to Teach the World
by JONATHAN COOK Philippe de Champaigne’s Vanitas (c. 1671) If a disease can teach wisdom beyond our understanding of how precarious and precious life is, the coronavirus has offered two lessons. The first is that in […]