Tag: Covid-19 pandemic
‘Grotesque’: While 41 million people lost jobs due to COVID-19, US...
"This is a grotesque indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. society."
As US death toll hits 100,000 people, here’s a simple guide...
The president’s “chaotic and incompetent response has fueled the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and beyond, causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths.”
From Syria to U.S.-Mexico border, refugees worldwide face hunger & deprivation...
After weeks of warnings, COVID-19 cases are emerging in refugee camps, where social distancing is often impossible and healthcare extremely limited.
The deathly tragedy of American exceptionalism
So who and what’s to blame for the worst avoidable loss of life in American history?
Trump botched all this
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
Scientific American: As Trump touts dangerous cures, here’s what we know...
More than 207,000 people have died worldwide from COVID-19, but there are still no drugs proven to help treat the disease.
U.S. billionaire wealth surges as COVID-19 pandemic worsens
As percentage of wealth, billionaire taxes have fallen 79% since 1980.
Experts warn anticipated death toll rise to far over the projected...
“Even if social distancing standards were relaxed, it wouldn’t restore the health of the economy as some protesters have implied it would.”
Will America’s corruption end on a ventilator or in a mushroom...
A political system that is structurally incapable of acting for the common good, even when millions of lives are at stake, is not just failing to solve our problems. It is the problem.
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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.