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imageOxyContin drug kingpin Richard Sackler gave campaign contribution to Biden for President
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by Lynda Carson
Opioid Drug-Overdose Victim...
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2020 12:44am PST
imageAtlas Welcomes Killing Loved Ones With Covid as This May Be 'Their Final Thanksgiving'
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by Julia Conley, Common Dreams
Dr. Scott Atlas, a top White House coronavirus adviser, said that Americans should flout public health guidance and gather as normal for the holidays as this may be "the final Thanksgiving" for many. Photo of Hoover Tower under Creative Commons via flicker. Scott Atlas is on leave from Stanford University's Hoover Institute while he serves under Trump....
Posted: Thu, Nov 26, 2020 2:12am PST
textDemocracy beyond Corona by Roland Roth
Diverse democracy immunizes against authoritarian impositions. Whether the experiences of the lockdown will result in lasting damage in the sense of a democratically consumptive "new normality" depends not least on whether it is possible to take up and strengthen the very existing democracy-building impulses and initiatives - from "Black Lives Matter" to "Fridays for Future"....
Posted: Mon, Nov 16, 2020 6:04am PST
textRealities: Vol. I by Robert Maxim
Academic Article on Disability Discrimination and Stephen Hawking, with verified soures. Joy Division reference included....
Posted: Sat, Nov 7, 2020 7:57pm PST
textIs Trump failing in the fight against the pandemic and the shattered economy? by Joachim Bischoff
The politically triggered lockdown to combat the pandemic caused 22 million people to lose their jobs abruptly in spring. The subsequent easing of restrictions during the summer months brought back a large part of these jobs, but by no means all of them. The recovery in the USA is clearly losing momentum. Employment growth is slowing down....
Posted: Mon, Nov 2, 2020 10:29am PST
imageTrump Admin Issues CDC Eviction Moratorium Guidance to Benefit Landlords over Renters
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by Posted by Lynda Carson
Change's To Coronavirus Covid-19 CDC Eviction Moratorium:...
Posted: Fri, Oct 16, 2020 4:44pm PDT
textFalling into the Spokes of the Wheel. Critique of the New Right by Saskia Wendel, U Schmiedel & H Strommen
Why theology needs to be political again. Defunding the post office and threatening critics with jail time are perverse, signs of the security state or the authoritarian state....
Posted: Sun, Oct 11, 2020 11:05am PDT
imageProfit Over Lives At JBS: Covid, OSHA and Life & Death With UFCW 7 President Kim Cordova
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by Labor Video Project
Kim Cordova, president of UFCW 7 talks about the deaths of eight JBS meat plant workers in Greeley, Colorado from Covid-19. She discusses the failure of OSHA to protect the workers and why her union, the workers and community are protesting at the Denver OSHA office....
Posted: Thu, Sep 17, 2020 12:16am PDT
imageHow the US government and the media suppressed the truth about the COVID-19 pandemic
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by Bryan Dyne and Andre Damon (WSWS repost)
Recorded conversations between Donald Trump and reporter Bob Woodward make clear that the White House made a calculated decision to suppress information about the COVID-19 pandemic. Why are these recordings being released only now after almost 200,000 people in the United States have died?...
Posted: Thu, Sep 10, 2020 8:17am PDT
textFinance Ministers and United Nations Discuss COVID Crisis Solutions by Zachary Conti
IMF Announces Access to Global "SDRs" Reserve...
Posted: Tue, Sep 8, 2020 5:07pm PDT
textEmbodied Inequality: The Intersections Between COVID, Racial Justice, and the Environment by Brianna Cunliffe
The consequences of our fossil fuel economy and a global pandemic fall heaviest on America's most vulnerable communities. Elected Officials are saying enough....
Posted: Mon, Aug 17, 2020 10:08am PDT
imageEviction crisis across the nation threatens 30-40 million people
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by Lynda Carson
Protesting Tenants Demanding That The Rent Must Be Cancelled:...
Posted: Mon, Aug 10, 2020 8:45pm PDT
imageNational nurse survey reveals devastating impact of reopening too soon
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by National Nurses United
Photo: NNU press conference to release results of first national nurse survey - March 5, 2020...
Posted: Mon, Aug 10, 2020 2:04pm PDT
imageAs the pandemic surges, Native Americans are resilient
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by Brenda Norrell
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to surge, Native Americans manifest resilience, from the San Carlos Apache running for their sacred land to the Kumeyaay standing to protect their sacred land from the border wall construction. Lakota are cooking hot meals for relatives who are in quarantine in Rapid City, South Dakota, while Dine' and Hopi raise their own funds and deliver food, water and supplies to those most in need....
Posted: Fri, Jul 24, 2020 8:38am PDT
textThe chances of the Corona crisis by Ingar Solty
Public debt only became a problem after the bank bailouts... Crises cause fear and reinforce deep-seated anxieties.. The market under capitalism is not an efficient distribution mechanism, but a means to enrich private corporations at the expense of society and its environment....
Posted: Mon, Jun 29, 2020 1:17pm PDT
textPrivate Profit Kaiser v Protests by Support HR 1384 Medicare for All
Private profit Kaiser Permanente, a major medical provider in this backward country that still does not have socialized medicine unlike the rest of the industrialized world, sent an Email on June 20, 2020 at 1:12 AM to its members telling us how to exercise our First Amendment right to protest. So that you know that this statement is not contrived, here is the outrageous blame-the-protest for failures of private profit medicine message:...
Posted: Sat, Jun 20, 2020 9:11am PDT
imageNavajo volunteers race with food and water as governments fail
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by Brenda Norrell
When a young Dine' man asked if anyone needed water and supplies, there were more than 100 responses. They are the blind, those without water, and those in hogans without phones. They are the young people living in tents in quarantine, they are the families living in tents....
Posted: Thu, Jun 18, 2020 4:50pm PDT
videoSave Social Security! (video/quicktime 223.4MB) by Raging Grannies
2 minute video by Lis Cox filmed on June 9, 2020....
Posted: Wed, Jun 17, 2020 4:39am PDT
imageGrowing anger among US workers as COVID-19 rips through workplaces
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by Tom Hall and Jerry White (WSWS Repost)
A mood of anger and opposition is taking hold among meatpacking workers in Utah, sanitation workers in Philadelphia, and automakers and health care workers in Northern California. Where will it strike next?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 11, 2020 9:45am PDT
textSolidarity Includes Wearing a Mask at Protests by Norman Solomon
The life you save may not be your own...
Posted: Thu, Jun 4, 2020 5:14pm PDT
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