by VIJAY PRASHAD – MANUEL BERTOLDI Photograph Source: David Shankbone – CC BY 2.0 The global pandemic of COVID-19 has spread to almost every country on the planet earth. The virus will take many lives, disrupt communities […]
by PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Jim Linwood – CC BY 2.0 We live in an age of Orwellian untruth where falsehood is the norm. One key falsehood worth unmasking is the claim that the current COVID-19 stock […]
Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine and offered cash so it would be exclusive to the US Thomas Colson and Andrew Dunn President Donald Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists […]
“It shouldn’t take a crisis like the spread of coronavirus to restore people’s right to drinking water.” byAndrea Germanos, A demonstrator holds a sign during a Detroit water shutoffs rally in 2014. (Photo: uusc4all/flickr/cc) Progressives heaped […]
Measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus seem dystopian to the world. For Palestinians, they are only slightly worse than business as usual. By Karim Kattan A Palestinian municipal employee disinfects a street at the […]
China’s gift to the world is hard-won knowledge: ‘The real remedy for epidemics is not isolation, but cooperation.’ Professor Tingbo Liang This article was updated on Monday 30 March to reflect the issuing of two […]
Let’s get all US troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, make peace with Iran, and address the real threats to human security like pandemics and the climate crisis .byKevin Martin More war is never a […]
Policy is needed now to curb further losses. byJosh Bivens Once the current crisis has passed, we will need a thorough diagnosis of just why the U.S. economy and society was so fragile to this […]
“We know what Trump’s plan is: a pandemic shock doctrine… But the end of this story hasn’t been written yet.” byJessica Corbett, Naomi Klein, author of the 2007 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster […]
“The healthcare industry will fight any threat to its profits with force and gobs of cash, even in the midst of a global pandemic. They cannot be bargained with. And they must be defeated.” byJake […]