Work, Crisis and Pandemic
by ROB URIE Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As the depth of the crises resulting from the coronavirus pandemic sink in, millions of the most vulnerable citizens will be facing eviction, hunger and the ravages of […]
Category: USA
No Pandemic-Related Pause? VA Privatization Leaves Veterans Waist Deep in Another Big Muddy
by STEVE EARLY – SUZANNE GORDON Photograph Source: Brianmcmillen – CC BY-SA 4.0 “Every time I read the papersThat old feeling comes on;We’re waist deep in the Big MuddyAnd the Big Fool says to push on.” – […]
Oil industry Exploits Pandemic as Excuse to Dodge Federal Regulations, Fees
by ERIK MOLVAR Photograph Source: Phil Dolby – CC BY 2.0 In an act of appalling hubris, the oil and gas industry is asking the federal government to loosen enforcement of federal regulations on public lands in […]
How Wall St. & Trump created the ventilator crisis
By Joyce Chediac Production line of ventilators in Shenyang, China. Unable to find ventilators in the U.S. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo purchased 15,000 from China. Photo: Xinhua. The $2 trillion relief bill of spending […]
Living in climate crisis: the pandemic and the need for revolution
By Tina Landis Confirmed cases of coronavirus as of March 29. Darkest red signifies over 100,000 confirmed cases. Photo: Wikimedia Commons As I write this article, most of the nation is living under shelter-in-place orders […]
People in Detroit fight water shutoffs
By Tharron Combs Photo: Notorious4life at English Wikipedia In 2014, the Detroit Water and Sewage Department began the largest water shutoff in United States history. To date, more than 141,000 households have been left without […]
Humanitarian crisis brewing for undocumented people
By Frank Lara Amnesty and Full Immigrant Rights NOW! | Photo: Frank Lara “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Beneath the […]
Arrest the virus, free the prisoners!
By Steven Powers We cannot allow the capitalist ruling class to turn a blind eye to the plight of the incarcerated population — not in general, nor in the particular circumstance of the global pandemic […]
USA: Analysis! $ trillion package
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Congress just passed a $2 trillion bailout package (which is really $6 trillion when you include the Federal Reserve’s intervention!), most of which will go to the biggest banks and corporations. […]
An American diplomat: “Corona” is a time bomb that will strike countries including Lebanon
By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Former US Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Erel, who previously served as deputy spokesperson for the US State Department, said that if the world thinks that New York City has a real problem […]