by MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Torrenegra – CC BY 2.0 The mendacity of Donald Trump is without parallel in the history of American presidential politics. His lies, as tabulated by the Washington Post’s fact checker, number in the […]
by JACK WAREHAM – DYLAN BURGOON Photograph Source: Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler / Scalable Grid Engine – CC0 Social distancing regulations have made video-chatting a necessity for many students, office workers, and anyone interested in maintaining […]
by: WALDEN BELLO Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The morning will comeWhen the world is mine.Tomorrow belongs to me! From Cabaret In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three lines of thinking are emerging. One […]
by PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The US and UK are the nation states that have performed worst in the world in coping with the coronavirus pandemic. Americans and Britons make up more […]
by: CAROLINE HURLEY Security, claim peace scientists, is the experience and expectation of well-being. Analyzing management of the major 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa is instructive given Covid 19’s global rampage. Despite internal UN dysfunction, […]
BYSandra Cuffe, Truthout Despair and Disparity: The Uneven Burdens of COVID-19 Fernanda* doesn’t know what to do. She fled Honduras with her husband and their toddler last year after death threats from gang members she says […]
BYChris Walker, Truthout President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he was taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial medication that some have suggested, anecdotally but without scientific evidence, can help in treating those diagnosed with coronavirus. Trump told […]
BYJake Johnson, Common Dreams President Donald Trump on Monday sent a four-page letter to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, threatening to permanently freeze U.S. funding to the United Nations agency in the […]
BY: Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance The United States is at a critical moment in the COVID-crisis. This week, the nation is likely to surpass 100,000 deaths and new hotspots in the south and midwest are developing. Forty-two states have […]
BYChris Walker, Truthout Aleaked memo from the Pentagon suggests the Department of Defense does not hold the same optimistic tone that President Donald Trump does when it comes to how fast a vaccine for coronavirus could […]