Tag: COVID-19
‘Drop the Medicare eligibility age to 0 right now’: Study warns...
"For all the abstracted talk over the last year about health insurance churn, we are likely about to see it on an unprecedented scale in terms of velocity and devastation."
‘Our bodies are on the line’: NYC nurses demand protective gear...
Nurses in California, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada and Texas are protesting one of the nation’s largest hospital chains for a “lack of preparedness” amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Change, love and the need for unity
Yes, perhaps unsurprisingly it’s all about love, and the absence of it. Unity is an expression of love.
Earth is shaking a lot less now that everyone is staying...
The reduction in seismic activity, like reduction in air pollution, also show that people are adhering to social distancing guidelines from governments around the world.
Corporate media ignore international cooperation as shortcut to coronavirus vaccine
"Imagine how much faster the research would advance if these researchers were working in collaboration, sharing their results with each other..."
Health insurance companies could skyrocket premiums
The U.S. health care system is ill-equipped when it comes to a pandemic and citizens will be the ones to suffer.
Rightwing populism in a time of crisis
When the smoke clears, let’s hope the scales fall from the eyes of their supporters and the only recently growing phenomenon of rightwing, anti-science populism is consigned to the dustbin of history, where it belongs.
A simple, low-cost way to reduce spread of coronavirus
Research shows face masks are highly effective—but there aren't enough even for health care workers.
Avenger planet
Is the COVID-19 pandemic mother nature’s response to human transgression?
Could COVID-19 reshape global leadership?
The crisis the world will face over the next six months or a year is one that cries out for competent leadership.
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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.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
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?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
The environmental and social impacts of fish farming and industrial aquaculture
Often promoted as sustainable, fish farming can increase pressure on wild fisheries, deepen global food inequities, and damage marine ecosystems.