Newsitem List
Opioid Drug-Overdose Victim...
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2020 12:44am PST
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
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
Academic Article on Disability Discrimination and Stephen Hawking, with verified soures. Joy Division reference included....
Posted: Sat, Nov 7, 2020 7:57pm PST
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
Change's To Coronavirus Covid-19 CDC Eviction Moratorium:...
Posted: Fri, Oct 16, 2020 4:44pm PDT
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
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
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
IMF Announces Access to Global "SDRs" Reserve...
Posted: Tue, Sep 8, 2020 5:07pm PDT
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
Protesting Tenants Demanding That The Rent Must Be Cancelled:...
Posted: Mon, Aug 10, 2020 8:45pm PDT
Photo: NNU press conference to release results of first national nurse survey - March 5, 2020...
Posted: Mon, Aug 10, 2020 2:04pm PDT
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
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
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
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
2 minute video by Lis Cox filmed on June 9, 2020....
Posted: Wed, Jun 17, 2020 4:39am PDT
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
The life you save may not be your own...
Posted: Thu, Jun 4, 2020 5:14pm PDT









