by VIJAY PRASHAD – MANUEL BERTOLDI Photograph Source: David Shankbone – CC BY 2.0 The global pandemic of COVID-19 has spread to almost every country on the planet earth. The virus will take many lives, disrupt communities […]
by PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Jim Linwood – CC BY 2.0 We live in an age of Orwellian untruth where falsehood is the norm. One key falsehood worth unmasking is the claim that the current COVID-19 stock […]
by JENNIFER MATSUI Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Since becoming his party’s frontrunner and presumed nominee, Joe Biden has been hard at work, providing more fodder for future Trump campaign attack ads against himself. No need […]
Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists working on a coronavirus vaccine and offered cash so it would be exclusive to the US Thomas Colson and Andrew Dunn President Donald Trump reportedly tried to poach German scientists […]
Number of UK deaths rises to 35 while other countries introduce stricter new measures. This blog is closed. Helen Sullivan (now) Sam Gelder, Martin Pengelly, Lucy Campbell, Mattha Busby and Helen Sullivan (earlier) We are going to close this blog […]
“It shouldn’t take a crisis like the spread of coronavirus to restore people’s right to drinking water.” byAndrea Germanos, A demonstrator holds a sign during a Detroit water shutoffs rally in 2014. (Photo: uusc4all/flickr/cc) Progressives heaped […]
“We know what Trump’s plan is: a pandemic shock doctrine… But the end of this story hasn’t been written yet.” byJessica Corbett, Naomi Klein, author of the 2007 book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster […]
“The healthcare industry will fight any threat to its profits with force and gobs of cash, even in the midst of a global pandemic. They cannot be bargained with. And they must be defeated.” byJake […]
by HOWIE HAWKINS Photograph Source: Kelley Minars – CC BY 2.0 Climate activist Bill McKibben took to the New Yorker recently to advise me and the Green Party to stand down our presidential campaign and instead work […]
Among those in Iran who have been unable to get critical medications have been patients with leukemia, epidermolysis bullosa, epilepsy, and chronic eye injuries from exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. Now coronavirus […]