China could quickly emerge as the powerhouse supplier of all those countries in need of critical medical equipment. by PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: China is over the hump. It’s open cases count is steadily coming down. It […]
Dear Sammi, It’s difficult enough to be in the U.S. during the COVID-19 outbreak. And when I think about the conditions in Gaza, I’m absolutely terrified for the Palestinians trapped there. As of today, Israeli […]
SOME SANITY AROUND THE PANDEMIC MARCH 19, 2020 Short and sweet: We are making a bad situation much, much worse because we’re letting government morons take action based on the advice of politicized scientists who […]
Why is there even a debate on whether any Coronavirus Vaccine Should be Free? byJohn Buell President Trump has spent a substantial part of his presidency demeaning and defunding the CDC. (Photo: Feature China/Barcroft Media/Getty […]
“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 […]
As Dow Jones Drops Record 2,000 Points on Coronavirus, Progressives Say Response Should Focus ‘On Helping Working People’ “The folks who suffer most in a market crash are not the traders on Wall Street,” said Rep. Ilhan […]
by SEIJI YAMADA Photograph Source: 2C2K Photography – CC BY 2.0 “Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” –Frederic Jameson OK, maybe it’s […]
by HELEN YAFFE Photograph Source: NatalieMaynor – CC BY 2.0 COVID-19 surged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019 and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like a tidal wave, swirling over […]
by LAURA CARLSEN Statue of Isabella I the Catholic Queen in front of the seat of the Organization of American States in Washington D.C. Photograph Source: Martin Baran – CC BY-SA 3.0 The OAS has never been […]
by F. ELIZABETH DAHAB Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair On Friday 13 March, listening to the President’s speech on the state of emergency provoked by the Coronavirus, I was thinking that the litany of interdictions enumerated […]