BY: Dean Baker, Truthout (Image: CDC Global, checking blinds via Shutterstock)Thus far, the Ebola virus has infected three people in the United States that we know of, however Ebola hysteria seems to have infected somewhere close to 300 million. […]
BY: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett talks about the spread of coronavirus and why it is more dangerous than anything the world has seen since the arrival of HIV. TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy […]
BY: Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 As global fears around the coronavirus outbreak intensify, the United States and many other countries have opted for wholesale travel bans of Chinese nationals as well […]
BY: Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All As the coronavirus continues to spread around the world, we don’t yet know either […]
BYMike Ludwig, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 As Democratic primary voters head to the polls in South Carolina ahead of Super Tuesday, a new poll found that the American public is more […]
BYC.J. Polychroniou, TruthoutPUBLISHEDApril 10, 2020SHAREShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via Email Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caught the world unprepared, and the economic, social and political consequences of the […]
BYC.J. Polychroniou, Truthout As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, exposing to the fullest the glaring weakness of our inequitable health system, and as the unemployment situation goes largely unaddressed, it’s becoming more than obvious that the […]
by MANUEL GARCÍA, JR. Warming Pacific from Yaquina Head, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The heat being captured by the increasing load of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is subsequently transferred into […]
Jumping on the excuse of Covid-19, parliament has rammed through a host of draconian measures unrelated to the health crisis. Proletarian writers On 25 March, the Coronavirus Act 2020 received royal assent after travelling through parliament at […]
Volunteers prepare to load vehicles with boxes of food at a food bank in the Los Angeles County city of Duarte, California on July 8, 2020 as the record for most coronavirus cases in a […]