by PATRICK HOWLETT-MARTIN Photograph Source: David Mapletoft – CC BY 2.0 On December 31, 2019, the Chinese government informed the World Health Organization of an epidemic of animal origin in Wuhan, reporting similarities to SARS-CoV (Severe Acute […]
by SONALI KOLHATKAR The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief the inequalities baked into the U.S.’s capitalist system—one that deems nurses and grocery workers “essential,” but leaves them with just as few rights and privileges […]
by TOM ENGELHARDT Let me quote a Trumpian figure from long ago, Henry Ford. That’s right, the bigot who created the Ford Motor Company (and once even ran for president). Back in 1916, in an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter, […]
BY MONDOWEISS EDITORS PALESTINIAN PRISONERS CAUGHT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND COVID-19 (CARTOON: CARLOS LATUFF) The Latest: 307 Palestinians have tested positive for the coronavirus in the West Bank and Gaza. 69 people have recovered; 2 have died. […]
MOHAMMED OMER Palestinians work on the production line of sterilizing gel at a cleaning materials factory in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, March 17. Gaza authorities declared a new set of precautionary measures […]
DELINDA C. HANLEY Palestinians, wearing protective masks amid fears of the spread of the novel coronavirus and waving national flags, take part in a protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails outside the […]
Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Israeli U.N.-Designated Human Rights Violator Energix Pushes Workers to Finish First Solar Utility in Virginia By: ANT F. SMITH City of Chesapeake Municipal Center, where the city council issued a special zoning […]
by TONY MCKENNA Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair I do not wish Boris Johnson to die. I only wish him to suffer. As paradoxical as it might sound, I don’t mean this in a sadistic way. Suffering […]
by MARTHA ROSENBERG Photograph Source: Mercy For Animals Canada – CC BY 2.0 Meat giant JBS USA Holdings closed its Souderton, Pennsylvania slaughter operation. Tyson Foods closed its Columbus Junction, Iowa pork slaughterhouse. Pennsylvania-based Empire Kosher Poultry temporarily closed […]
By Pascal Sacré This article, translated from French, was written prior to Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic outbreak *** The WHO [OMS in French] is the World Health Organisation. ‘WHO’ in English – and that’s much more appropriate. […]