By: Orooj Hakimi, Abdul Qadir Sediqi, Hamid Shalizi KABUL – After struggling to get pregnant for years, Zainab, 27, gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday morning at a small hospital in the southwestern […]
US says Chinese hacking vaccine research by: Agence France-Presse The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and cybersecurity experts believe Chinese hackers are trying to steal research on developing a vaccine against coronavirus, two newspapers reported Monday. […]
by: MICHAEL BARKER Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Pharmaceutical corporations make billions providing drugs to help improve some people’s lives, in much the same way that privately-run hospitals provide care to those who can afford to […]
by EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: The White House from Washington, DC – Public Domain From the start, testing for Covid-19 in the U.S. has been abysmal. Experts agree that without adequate testing, the disease cannot be […]
by CONN HALLINAN Photograph Source: U.S. Navy – Public Domain “There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet plagues and wars take people equally by surprise” –Albert Camus, “The Plague” Camus’ novel of […]
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro takes part in a military parade to celebrate the 208th anniversary of Venezuela’s declaration of independence in Caracas, Venezuela, July 5, 2019. /Reuters Photo Venezuela’s government said Sunday it foiled an […]
BYEoin Higgins, Common Dreams The Democrat majority House of Representatives passed a massive, $3 trillion coronavirus relief stimulus package known as the HEROES Act roughly along party lines on Friday night despite progressive concerns over […]
BY: Sasha Abramsky, Truthout Earlier this week, the Trump administration started hinting that the president’s “temporary” ban on immigration, rushed into effect in late April as a part of the pandemic response, was about to be […]
BY: Jaisal Noor, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 On May Day, food service workers led a socially distanced protest at the campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, taking part in the […]
Wildcat strikes and a high-profile resignation are highlighting the anti-worker essence of capitalist accumulation. Proletarian writers Unrest amongst Amazon warehouse staff in the US, long simmering, has come to a head over the company’s cavalier response to the Covid-19 pandemic. […]