COVID-19 infections surge in West Bank
Tamara Nassar The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has risen almost sevenfold in the occupied West Bank over the past three weeks. The total number of cases jumped from 690 on 16 June to more […]
Category: Health
NIH Seeks to Identify Children at Risk for Severe Complication of COVID-19
By Carol Duff, MSN, BA, RN Health Editor’s Note: It was no sooner announced, months ago, that children, when they contract COVID-19 do not get as ill as adults. This was drastically disproved when children started […]
White House Health Experts Warn Pandemic Is Entering “New Phase”
BY: Chris Walker, Truthout Health experts within the White House issued a grave warning over the weekend, stating that “we are in a new phase,” with the novel coronavirus spreading beyond city centers and entering rural […]
Second spike looms: Boris opts for ‘whack-a-mole’ over having a good plan
On every level, the performance of socialist countries in dealing with Covid-19 is putting the profiteering, anti-worker ethos of capitalism to shame. Proletarian writers The soothing mood music emanating from Downing Street is aimed at […]
PPE scandal: crony capitalists make a killing while frontline workers sacrificed
Meanwhile, the system’s defenders are worried that workers might learn the right lessons. Proletarian writers The government’s refusal to commandeer the production and distribution of the personal protective equipment so vitally needed by hospitals and […]
Dilemma of the covid crash vultures
Having maximised indebtedness in order to avoid paying taxes, vulture capitalists now find they are missing out on state aid during the crisis. Proletarian writers Whilst workers are driven to their wits’ end trying to […]
Hedge funds flourish on covid misery
As the vaccine race heats up, holders of the right pharma shares are making a killing out of insider trading. Proletarian writers There can be no better illustration of the truly barbaric nature of US imperialism than […]
The Coronavirus-Climate-Air Conditioning Nexus
by STAN COX Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair A wave of persistent, intense heat and humidity has enveloped the Midwest, South, and Northeast in this second half of July. By the time it subsides, more than half of […]
Laos Has Tackled COVID-19, But It Is Drowning in Debt to International Finance
by VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Torbenbrinker – CC BY-SA 3.0 On June 11, Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)—a country of 7 million in Southeast Asia—said it had temporarily prevailed over COVID-19. Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith said that his country […]
Fears of Going 'Through Hell Again' as US Covid Infection Rate Hits Record High for 27th Straight Day
“With American lives on the line, the question now is whether members of the Republican Party will continue to stand by in silence as the President peddles fiction about a deadly virus.” by: Eoin Higgins, […]