The death toll from the coronavirus in the U.S. has now topped 83,000, as the battle rages over how to safely reopen the country. President Trump is meeting with the governors of North Dakota and Colorado […]
“A country that puts people in this situation is not a country upholding its responsibility to its citizens.” by: Jake Johnson, A medical assistant with M Health Fairview administers a Covid-19 test to a fellow […]
Total deaths and job loss. by: Les Leopold By Election Day, we may have suffered more than 100,000 U.S. dead, twice the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War. It will be extremely […]
Energy in a post-pandemic world. by: Michael T. Klare It does appear that the present still-raging pandemic is forcing dramatic shifts in the way we consume energy and that many of these changes are likely to persist […]
It is taking the scale of a horrific pandemic to expose flaws in the social structure that should have been corrected earlier. By: Katherine Van Wormer My mind turns to the Great Depression, too, but […]
“Trump deflecting blame for his handling of the pandemic onto the WHO and making Yemenis pay for it in the end.” by: Julia Conley, Medical personnel check people’s temperature on the street as a precautionary measure against […]
By Dr. Jack Rasmus 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 rate of 14.7%. Both mainstream and progressive […]
by ELLEN BROWN Photograph Source: Eli Christman – CC BY 2.0 Congress seems to be at war with the states. Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus relief package – a mere 5% – has […]
by DAVID SCHULTZ Photograph Source: John Loo – CC BY 2.0 American universities are failing. They are private or public schools. They could be religiously-affiliated or not. They could be in the east, west, north, or south […]
By Stephen Lendman Sino/US relations are more dismal than at any time since Nixon’s 1972 meeting with Mao during his weeklong visit to China. Are bilateral differences irreconcilable? Is the breach between both countries too great […]