Wednesday, July 16, 2025

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Amazon reveals nearly 20,000 employees have contracted the coronavirus

Meanwhile, the company's profits have soared as demand for online shopping increased during the pandemic.

Up to half a million sharks could be killed to create...

Conservationists fear that if two doses of the vaccine are needed to immunize the global population than half a million sharks would subsequently die.

From superpower to failed state: Inequality and the public health crisis...

The pandemic has shined a spotlight on the failings of leaders and elites.

US coronavirus deaths pass 200,000 as new surge in cases begins

The U.S. is not alone as the weather starts to change and restrictions ease up slightly.

Billionaire collective fortunate grows, while rest of America struggles during pandemic

“The difference is stark between profits for billionaires and the widespread economic misery in our nation."

Medicating isolation

Drug use in the COVID-19 moment.

Screwing with the unemployment statistics

Time for a little truth about the economic crisis.

Pandemic, wildfires & heat Wave: Undocumented farm workers face ‘triple threat’...

“Farmworkers have continued to work during this whole time, despite fears of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace, despite fears of getting heat stress while they’re at work, and now despite fears of the dangers that wildfire smoke brings.”

The pandemic and oil

With oil prices down and wealthy countries bungling COVID-19, the pandemic has exposed the weaknesses that wealth papers over.

How America continues to fail the health care workers battling the...

For too many Americans, health care workers are out of sight, out of mind.

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Progressive legacy triumphs as Adelita Grijalva wins Arizona primary

A clash of legacy versus digital insurgency, this Arizona primary uncovers deep intra‑party tensions around candidate experience, social media influence, and the future of democratic progressiveness.

Donald Trump’s greatest ‘triumph’

I’m thinking, of course, about climate change.

Israeli Minister: ‘Gaza must be in ruins for decades,’ as airstrike kills children seeking...

Keeping millions of Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children, living in ruins for decades is not the sort of goal announced by sane, civilized, ordinary European politicians.

Trump’s about-face on Ukraine

Trump might be a pushover, a chicken hawk, a TACO. But in Ukraine, Putin has found his own unmovable object.

The reality behind JP Morgan’s ‘net zero’: Billions flow to Big Oil

JP Morgan’s “green” funds have funneled over $4 billion to the fossil-fuel majors, betraying the firm’s promises and undermining efforts to achieve net zero.