Tag: Coronavirus
‘We cannot test. We cannot test’: As coronavirus cases in us...
“Testing is central because that leads to early detection, it minimizes further spread, and it quickly treats those found with the virus.”
What’s missing from the coronavirus bill
Corporate tax cuts won’t save us. The coronavirus doesn’t distinguish between rich and poor.
Coronavirus is a historic trigger event — and it needs a...
Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation.
Senator dumped up to $1.7 million of stock after reassuring public...
Intelligence Chair Richard Burr’s selloff came around the time he was receiving daily briefings on the health threat.
America doesn’t have a public health system
There is no public health system in the U.S., in short, because the richest nation in the world has no capacity to protect the public as a whole, apart from national defense.
Progressive lawmakers demand nationwide moratorium on ‘cruel and dangerous’ evictions amid...
“Evicting families puts their health at risk, imposes trauma on and disrupts the education of their children, and exacerbates the risk of outbreak in their communities,” said Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and other lawmakers.
Trump holds White House presser to announce much stricter separation guidance...
Hard to take him seriously when he and his team stand shoulder to shoulder and the press crowds in.
What the coronavirus says about us
Trump’s message to governors on lifesaving medical equipment — “get it yourselves” — is grimly appropriate in a country without national health care.
No, President Trump, the coronavirus is nothing like H1N1 swine flu...
The president has been comparing his administration’s handling of COVID-19 to the way President Barack Obama’s team dealt with the H1N1 outbreak. He is wrong.
States halt new water shutoffs, leaves previously disconnected households without water...
Our country needs a national ban on water shutoffs for nonpayment with immediate restoration of service to all families who have lost water for an inability to pay their water bills."
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.