Tag: pandemic
Profiteering off the pandemic
Big corporations and major investors are doing fine. Billionaires are doing better than ever. But most Americans are sinking fast.
‘Just insane’: As pandemic rages and hunger soars, Trump USDA under...
"It looks like people will lose their benefits."
Betsy DeVos’ deadly plan to reopen schools
DeVos’ entire tenure has centered on shafting low-income students and their families—the very people she’s supposed to protect.
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.
Coronavirus shines light on zoos as danger zones for deadly disease...
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...
“The most pernicious portion of it is that at the state level and at the regional level we lost our situational awareness.”
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.
Noam Chomsky: Decades of “the neoliberal plague” left U.S. Unprepared for...
“We should understand the roots of this pandemic.”
Union representing 1.7 million U.S. teachers says it will support strikes...
“Nobody wants to see students back in the classroom more than educators. But when it comes to their safety, we’re not ready to take any options off the table.”
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.