by PAM MARTENS – RUSS MARTENS Largest Recipients of Federal Reserve Bailout Funds, 2007 to 2011. From December 2007 to November 10, 2011, the Federal Reserve, secretly and without the awareness of Congress, funneled $19.6 trillion […]
by EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Prison Insight – CC BY 2.0 Now is the time to empty the prisons. With over two million people incarcerated, the vast majority for nonviolent crimes, prisoners are packed like sardines, their […]
by REBECCA GORDON Before I found myself “sheltering in place,” this article was to be about women’s actions around the world to mark March 8th, International Women’s Day. From Pakistan to Chile, women in their millions filled the streets, […]
Our instinct to stay far away from disease is deeply rooted. Even though, this time, we can’t. By: Jay Michaelson “As long as they have the disease, they remain unclean. They must live alone; they […]
by: MARSHALL AUERBACK Photograph Source: IntangibleArts – CC BY 2.0 When historians look back on our current government’s response to a public health emergency and resultant economic depression, there won’t be many paeans to profiles in […]
by: PATRICK COCKBURN Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The US may be reaching its “Chernobyl moment” as it fails to lead in combating the coronavirus epidemic. As with the nuclear accident in the Soviet Union in […]
by LAURA FLANDERS “A bridge is no stronger than its weakest part.” Former slave turned educator Anna Julia Cooper uttered those very contemporary-sounding words back in 1892. The US didn’t heed them then; we haven’t heeded […]
bY: ISRAEL SHAMIR In these Corona times, I often listen to Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. This black cloud has a silver lining. With the virus roaming outside, teenagers deign to […]
What Happens In the Wake of the COVID-19 Lockdown? Economic Destruction, Global Poverty, Bankruptcies, Mass Unemployment. Neoliberalism to the Rescue By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, In the wake of the lockdown: Bankruptcies and mass unemployment, the […]
COVID-19 and Economic Duress: A Pretext to Enhance Police State Powers? Suspension of Constitutional Rights During COVID-19? By Stephen Lendman Global Research, Crises are times when ruling authorities convince people to sacrifice personal freedoms for greater […]