by: CAROLINE HURLEY Security, claim peace scientists, is the experience and expectation of well-being. Analyzing management of the major 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa is instructive given Covid 19’s global rampage. Despite internal UN dysfunction, […]
BYSandra Cuffe, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 Fernanda* doesn’t know what to do. She fled Honduras with her husband and their toddler last year after death threats from gang members she says […]
BYChris Walker, Truthout President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he was taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial medication that some have suggested, anecdotally but without scientific evidence, can help in treating those diagnosed with coronavirus. Trump told […]
BYJake Johnson, Common Dreams President Donald Trump on Monday sent a four-page letter to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, threatening to permanently freeze U.S. funding to the United Nations agency in the […]
BY: Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance The United States is at a critical moment in the COVID-crisis. This week, the nation is likely to surpass 100,000 deaths and new hotspots in the south and midwest are developing. Forty-two states have […]
BYChris Walker, Truthout Aleaked memo from the Pentagon suggests the Department of Defense does not hold the same optimistic tone that President Donald Trump does when it comes to how fast a vaccine for coronavirus could […]
BY: Amy Goodman & Juan González, Democracy Now! President Trump claimed Monday he’s been taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, even though multiple studies show the drug can be dangerous and is not an effective treatment for COVID-19. This […]
BYJuan Cole, TomDispatch This spring, the novel coronavirus pandemic has raised the issue of the relationship between the blindest kind of religious faith and rational skepticism — this time in two countries that think of themselves […]
By: Caroline Chen Though requirements vary from state to state, many of them are hiring thousands of contact tracers in an effort to curb coronavirus spread. Here’s a brief quiz to check your knowledge. *** States […]
A military spouse’s perspective on fighting this pandemic. by: Andrea Mazzarino If so much of our money hadn’t gone into the military-industrial complex, perhaps there would have been enough health-care workers to weather this crisis […]