by DEAN BAKER There has been a new wave of despair among journalists in the last couple of weeks as several major news outlets, including the Los Angeles Times and McClatchy News Service, announced layoffs and/or pay […]
“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 […]
“This is an active and deliberate choice that the president is making.” byAndrea Germanos, U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus response while flanked by Vice President Mike Pence during a briefing with health […]
By Stephen Lendman Global Research, When WW II ended, fascist tyranny wasn’t defeated. It was transplanted from Berlin, Tokyo, and Rome to the US — under new management. Today it’s infinitely more menacing to world peace, […]
The most serious consequences of the disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq confirm what millions of people around the world warned about 17 years ago. byMedea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies Seventeen years later, the consequences […]
By Andrew Korybko Global Research, Russia’s urgent dispatch of counter-COVID aid to America was both symbolic and substantial in the sense that it improved the country’s reputation among average Americans which in turn advances Trump’s years-long […]
The virus is exposing inadequacies in health systems all over the world, especially the U.S.’s abysmal health infrastructure. Health workers on the ground continue to provide care during the pandemic despite the severe lack of […]