Tag: COVID-19
Media silent as poll workers contract COVID-19 at primaries that DNC,...
And instead of reporting on this urgent story, the media have enabled this dangerous behavior.
Gilead Sciences asks FDA to rescind ‘orphan’ status for possible coronavirus...
"We are committed to making the medicine both accessible and affordable to governments and patients around the world."
Amid the coronavirus crisis, mutual aid networks erupt across the country
“Human cooperation, solidarity, and communalism is built deep into our DNA, and mutual aid is just what that aspect of humanity looks like in practice.”
We won’t go back to normal, because normal was the problem
When a global pandemic strikes, the private-sector austerity model simply falls apart.
Our #1 objective must be: Drastically reduce the fear and panic...
Fear begets fear, panic begets panic, but only if we allow it to continue to happen.
‘For common benefit of all,’ Ireland nationalizes hospitals for duration of...
“How wonderful is this. A beautiful silver lining.”
Judgment day for the national security state
The coronavirus and the real threats to American safety and freedom...
We need to talk about privilege and the coronavirus pandemic
That so many in the U.S. seem to be operating in paranoia and fear-mongering, there’s no time like the present for us to check our privilege.
Trump will not use Defense Production Act to order manufacturing of...
With prices rising, supplies lacking, and healthcare officials working endlessly, the importance of vital medical equipment should not be negotiable.
The politics of the coronavirus
For the far right, the pandemic is a chance to enact border controls and erode the rule of law. It could also expose their utter incompetence.
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Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America – if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.
Trump administration threatens media licenses and treason charges over Iran war coverage
Critics warn FCC pressure on broadcasters and presidential threats of treason charges represent a dangerous escalation against press freedom during an active military conflict.
Neocon nightmare: Americans flee Iraq as US embassy is hit and oil ports are...
Now that the US is again involved in a major war in the region, Iraq tilts to Washington’s enemy, Iran.
Million-dollar earners stop paying into Social Security for 2026
Recent polling indicates significant public support for reform, with approximately 71 percent of voters favoring a tax increase on wealthy Americans to guarantee the program's solvency.
Big oil knew it was wrecking Louisiana’s coast, records show
Now, parish lawsuits, including one in front of the Supreme Court, could make oil giants pay to restore the state’s vanishing marshes.