Tag: pandemic
12 ways communities are taking care of each other during the...
The efforts range from a Slack chat community connecting people around the world to suggestions about what to do with your stimulus check.
Millions of Americans face water shutoffs during pandemic
“It’s a package of related factors – institutional racism, environmental injustice, and poverty – which means communities most vulnerable to Covid-19 are the same communities most vulnerable to water shutoffs.”
The pandemic makes the Bernie 2020 campaign more vital than ever
There’s no doubt that Bernie Sanders will do all he can to help defeat Donald Trump.
It’s spring and I’ve turned 71 in a pandemic-induced recession
But when we come out of it, we have to come out vowing never to return to the madness that was American society before COVID-19.
Trump decides against reopening Affordable Care Act enrollment amid coronavirus pandemic
Progressive lawmakers criticize the Trump administration's decision calling it a deliberate blocking of vulnerable Americans, which with have "negative consequences."
Why Donald Trump’s ‘leadership’ is the real COVID-19 hoax
Trump’s arrogance and failures compound a crisis that’s already damaged the economy and put thousands of Americans in early graves.
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.
Neither pandemic nor economic collapse is going to be a short-lived...
Huge layoffs = major recession; Raging infections and deaths = major epidemic.
Avenger planet
Is the COVID-19 pandemic mother nature’s response to human transgression?
Taxpayers paid millions to design a low-cost ventilator for a pandemic....
As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile.
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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.