Avoiding a dystopian future requires as a first step repairing the elements of fragility in our political economy. by: John Buell Attacks on the welfare state from the seventies on along with racial polarization fostered […]
By Timothy Alexander Guzman The US federal and state governments are now hiring “Contact Tracers” to track those who are infected with the Coronavirus. The Daily Beast, a liberal online news site claims that in order […]
Poll: Americans Oppose U.S. Recognition of Israeli Annexation GRANT F. SMITH IRmep Polls IRmep Poll: “Israel has said it will annex the West Bank, which has a population of 3 million Palestinians and 300,000 illegal […]
by JACK RASMUS Photograph Source: Raymond “Dmitri” Beljan – CC BY 2.0 This past Friday, May 8, the US Labor Dept. released its latest jobless figures. The official report was 20 million more unemployed and an unemployment […]
by: SCOTT TUCKER Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On the day after armed protestors stormed the Capitol building in Michigan to demand that the whole economy be re-opened, the news included reports that Michigan has the […]
by GREG MOSES Photograph Source: Steve Snodgrass – CC BY 2.0 Assaults on Civil Rights can be loud, with microphones or guns, but the effects of structural racism are often hushed, in the silence of dreams deferred. […]
by GABRIEL KUHN Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The accusations against the projected Democratic Party presidential nominee, Joe Biden, trouble and confuse U.S. liberals. As a result, they say surprising and, at times, outrageous things. I […]
by JOSEPH NATOLI Photograph Source: Jeanne Menjoulet – CC BY 2.0 “Sadly, one can image someone – Trump?, Kushner? – calculating the trade-off between business and the human cost, and saying, “they are expendable.” – David Rosen, “They […]
Assuring all Americans have access to a vaccine is both “the moral thing to do” and “good public health policy,” said the Vermont senator. byAndrea Germanos, “This pandemic must not become another opportunity for the […]
“The steps that our international coalition of lawmakers is proposing are not radical,” said Sanders. “It is the very least that these financial institutions should do to prevent an unimaginable increase in poverty, hunger, and […]