Saturday, October 31, 2026

COVID-19 crisis highlights big meat companies’ lack of openness

Meat companies’ evasive language about what is happening to animals during the COVID-19 crisis is part of a larger pattern that suppresses open debate about the ethical costs of food production in the U.S.

The military is sick

Top Pentagon officials and the high command are prioritizing the maintenance of empire at the expense of protecting the very bodies that make up the armed services.
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Public health vs. politics: White House scrapped nationwide Covid-19 testing plan to hurt blue...

More than five months into the crisis, there continue to be critical testing shortages and delays. How did we get here?

Covid-19 crisis failure, people must save themselves and the economy

Our actions need to be about building a people’s movement that grows in power before and after the November elections.

Coronavirus shines light on zoos as danger zones for deadly disease transmission between humans...

The pandemic makes one thing clear: We must change our relationship with wildlife or suffer the consequences.

How many people in the US are hospitalized with COVID-19? Who knows?

“The most pernicious portion of it is that at the state level and at the regional level we lost our situational awareness.”

New study confirms lead poisoning is a global problem among children

"The unequivocal conclusion of this research is that children around the world are being poisoned by lead on a massive and previously unrecognized scale."

FAQs for anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers

The following is satire that is, however, based on actual anti-masker and anti-vaxxer arguments and memes.
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Noam Chomsky: Decades of “the neoliberal plague” left U.S. Unprepared for Covid-19 outbreak

“We should understand the roots of this pandemic.”

Worries about foreign ‘hacking’ of vaccine research place corporate profits ahead of public health

The Times fully admits that this alleged hacking would not harm U.S. public health, but only the profits of U.S. pharmaceutical companies.