by MARSHALL AUERBACK Call him an upper-class Etonian twit if you like, but the reality is that Boris Johnson, not Donald Trump, might be the 21st century’s first genuine blue-collar conservative. Since becoming prime minister, Johnson has represented […]
by MARSHALL AUERBACK After a faulty start to the coronavirus pandemic, the European Union members appear to be getting their act together, as they all appear to have abandoned ruinous slash-and-burn austerity policies (including budget cuts […]
by MARSHALL AUERBACK Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Seldom a day goes by lately without politicians and pundits from countries all over the world calling for re-establishing their manufacturing base to avoid the vulnerabilities exposed in […]
by NEVE GORDON – PENNY GREEN Photograph Source: Carl Campbell – CC BY 2.0 It did not take long. Three weeks after the outbreak, the Hungarian parliament conferred formidable executive powers on prime minister Viktor Orbán, allowing […]
by KENNETH SURIN Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In a previous piece in CounterPunch I compiled Donald Trump’s statements on the COVID-19 pandemic up to April 4th. Here is a continuation of that list. Rather than place Trump’s […]
by RAIN Traditional Hogan on the Navajo Reservation. Photo: Alter-Native Media. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico warned President Trump nearly a month ago that coronavirus “could wipe out tribal nations.” Governor Lujan Grisham cited […]
by DEAN BAKER Photograph Source: CafeCredit.com – CC BY 2.0 For all the suffering caused by the pandemic, one important positive effect is that it may lead to clearer thinking about government debt and deficits. To Congress’s […]
Demand Progress will oppose, and will urge representatives and senators to oppose, any stimulus bill that does not include essential measures to support the millions of ordinary Americans struggling during the coronavirus crisis. These include: […]
Lack of employment and income makes it difficult for informal workers to survive in big cities. Hundreds of Peruvians Friday continue to leave Lima city on foot towards their home towns after they ran out […]
“Our job now is to join the rest of the industrialized world and pass the Paycheck Security Act.” by: Jake Johnson, A person files an application for unemployment benefits on April 16, 2020 in Arlington, […]