How the Fascists Won World War II
by H. BRUCE FRANKLIN Photograph Source: View of the IG Farben Building from the Main Tower byEvaK – CC BY 2.5 Come you masters of warYou that build the big gunsYou that build the death planesYou that […]
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Racist Attitudes Could Aid and Abet the Spread of Coronavirus
BY: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett talks about the spread of coronavirus and why it is more dangerous than anything the world has seen since the arrival of HIV. TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy […]
Is Coronavirus Panic Sending Us Back to the Days of Racist Quarantines?
BY: Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 As global fears around the coronavirus outbreak intensify, the United States and many other countries have opted for wholesale travel bans of Chinese nationals as well […]
How Can the US Confront Coronavirus With 28 Million People Uninsured?
BY: Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All As the coronavirus continues to spread around the world, we don’t yet know either […]
Voters Head to Polls With Anxiety Over Medical Bills as Coronavirus Spreads
BYMike Ludwig, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 As Democratic primary voters head to the polls in South Carolina ahead of Super Tuesday, a new poll found that the American public is more […]
هل المحكمة الدولية المختصة بقضية الحريري مسيسة؟ (Is the Special Tribunal for Lebanon politicised in relation to the Hariri case?)
بقلم منذر هنداوي ما معنى أن تكون المحكمة مسيسة؟ إنها تعني أن احكامها لا تستند إلى الادلة والشواهد، بل إلى المصالح السياسية، أي أن دور القاضي في المحكمة المسيسة يشبه دور مفتي السلطان الذي يتلاعب […]
Chomsky and Pollin: To Heal From COVID-19, We Must Imagine a Different World
BYC.J. Polychroniou, TruthoutPUBLISHEDApril 10, 2020SHAREShare via FacebookShare via TwitterShare via Email Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caught the world unprepared, and the economic, social and political consequences of the […]
If Trump Had Followed Vietnam’s Lead on COVID, US Would Have Fewer Than 100 Dead
BYC.J. Polychroniou, Truthout As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, exposing to the fullest the glaring weakness of our inequitable health system, and as the unemployment situation goes largely unaddressed, it’s becoming more than obvious that the […]
Corporate Landlords Get Big Tax Breaks. They Should Pay Our Rent During COVID
BYSofia Lopez & Sara Myklebust, Inequality.org The Covid-19 crisis has both exposed and exacerbated racial and wealth inequality in the United States. As unemployment skyrockets and tens of millions of Americans struggle with a sudden loss of income, […]
The Department of Homeland Security: the Ideal Authoritarian Tool
by MELVIN GOODMAN President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2004 on October 1, 2003 – Public Domain In the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration made a series of blunders that […]