Gaza’s New Conflict: COVID-19
by OMAR SHABAN Photograph Source: Gigi Ibrahim – CC BY 2.0 At a time when everyone was celebrating the arrival of a new decade, a rare once-in-a-100-year event took the world by surprise: a major global pandemic […]
Category: Health
COVID-19 and the “Just-in-Time” Supply Chain: Why Hospitals Ran Out of Ventilators and Grocery Stores Ran Out of Toilet Paper
by LOUIS PROYECT Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On March 25th, N.Y. Times op-ed columnist Farhad Manjoo wrote about “How the World’s Richest Country Ran Out of a 75-Cent Face Mask.” The subtitle certainly went against […]
Slumlord Capitalism v. Global Pandemic
by JOHN WHITLOW Photograph Source: Will Buckner – CC BY 2.0 The poet Langston Hughes once wrote, “I wish the rent was heaven sent.” With 10 million Americans filing for unemployment benefits in the midst of the […]
The Control of Nature
by EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Photograph Source: arndw – CC BY 2.0 I started the day (Sunday, March 29, 2020) in relatively good spirits. The Sun was bathing nature in light and pleasant warmth. Spring and flowers were everywhere. […]
The Nazi occupation transports 9 prisoners who mixed with an editor who was wounded by Corona from Ofer Nazi Camp
By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Nazi occupied Palestine: The Prisoners’ Club reported that the Nazi Occupation Prisons Administration transferred the nine prisoners who had been quarantined after their contact with the liberated prisoner, Noureddine Sarsour, infected with the […]
No Pandemic-Related Pause? VA Privatization Leaves Veterans Waist Deep in Another Big Muddy
by STEVE EARLY – SUZANNE GORDON Photograph Source: Brianmcmillen – CC BY-SA 4.0 “Every time I read the papersThat old feeling comes on;We’re waist deep in the Big MuddyAnd the Big Fool says to push on.” – […]
The Nazi occupation forces arrest a young man and a boy from Jerusalem
By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Nazi occupied Jerusalem: At dawn Sunday, the occupation forces arrested Palestinians from Silwan, occupied Jerusalem. The Quds Newsletter reported that, at dawn today, members of the Nazi police stormed several neighborhoods in […]
How Wall St. & Trump created the ventilator crisis
By Joyce Chediac Production line of ventilators in Shenyang, China. Unable to find ventilators in the U.S. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo purchased 15,000 from China. Photo: Xinhua. The $2 trillion relief bill of spending […]
Coronavirus Takes Spirit Out of Jerusalem Holy Sites, but Residents Cling to Faith
Chrisitian, Muslim and Jewish sites at the Old City adapt to new restrictions on congregation and prayer as coronavirus tours the Holy Land By: Nir Hasson At the Western Wall plaza, tape was laid out […]
The UK and Covid-19 Crisis
by KENNETH SURIN Photograph Source: Sanshiro KUBOTA – CC BY 2.0 The UK has been preoccupied with its roiling Brexit psychodrama since 2016. Brexit has to be seen in the larger context of the UK’s incomplete recovery […]