By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Even in the midst of the pandemic, the rich are getting richer and bolder in their fight against working Americans. The American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Michael Strain wrote an op-ed in the New… Continue Reading
By Bob Dreyfuss* – The Nation The current administration is smearing China in the same way Bush fabricated intelligence on Iraq. There’s a meme that appears now and then on Facebook and other social media: “Those who don’t study history are… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad*) – Independent Media Institute On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a cable to U.S. State Department instructing officials how… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – Common Dreams Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. When the Dodd Frank Act was passed in 2010, President Obama triumphantly declared, “No… Continue Reading
By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute Germany’s highest court issued a ruling that could threaten the existence of the euro with a constitutional court decision that said the European Central Bank’s bond-buying operations exceeded the ECB’s legal remit, and… Continue Reading
The Economist The flow of people, trade and capital will be slowed Even before the pandemic, globalisation was in trouble. The open system of trade that had dominated the world economy for decades had been damaged by the financial crash and… Continue Reading
By Karen McVeigh – The Guardian Coronavirus highlights weakness of food and health systems, as Global Nutrition Report finds one in nine of world’s population is hungry An overhaul of the world’s food and health systems is needed to tackle… Continue Reading
Robert Reich* – Newsweek No other nation has endured as much death from COVID-19 nor nearly as a high a death rate as has the United States. With 4.25 percent of the world population, America has the tragic distinction of… Continue Reading
By Timothy Egan * – The New York Times Will American prestige ever recover? In 1847, members of the Choctaw Nation sent relief money across the Atlantic to a starving Ireland — something the Irish, who lost more than a million people… Continue Reading
Yanis Varoufakis and David McWilliams – The Guardian Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams on the hope for a global new deal David McWilliams: I think it is fair to say that capitalism – in… Continue Reading
By Bill Blain* – The Morning Porridge “Let us sing more cheerful songs, more songs full of joy!” I am wondering if my FT App is broken? I opened it this morning and the front pages of the Pink Un… Continue Reading
By Daniel Villarreal – Newsweek Dr. Anthony Fauci, the scientific face of America’s pandemic response, dismissed the theory that coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, contradicting the president and his Secretary of State in an escalating confrontation with China.… Continue Reading
By Ernesto Londoño*, Letícia Casado and Manuela Andreoni – The New York Times A flailing leader has given Brazil’s generals an opening to insert themselves onto the front lines of politics. RIO DE JANEIRO — Jair Bolsonaro ascended to Brazil’s presidency with a sweeping… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – Creative Common The new terms could be harnessed for local governments to own and operate their own banks. Congress seems to be at war with the states. Only $150 billion of its nearly $3 trillion coronavirus… Continue Reading
Hannah Friedman* -Newsweek Americans Want the Right to Be Safe Across the country, we’ve been bombarded with pictures and videos of extremists storming state capitols, cradling guns and badgering the rest of us about their idea of “freedom.” They claim… Continue Reading
By Ryan Goodman and Danielle Schulkin(*) – The New York Times The president and senior officials manipulated Americans and played down the severity of the pandemic The strongest critics of the Trump’s administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic point to its flat-footedness and… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) World-renowned political dissident, linguist and author. He is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught… Continue Reading
The economist The economic crisis will expose a decade’s worth of corporate fraud Downturns are accounting crooks’ worst enemy When bernie madoff owned up to a $65bn Ponzi scheme in December 2008, it was not out of guilt. He knew the… Continue Reading
By Jan Lundius* Epidemic diseases are not random events that afflict societies capriciously and without warning, on the contrary, every society produces its own specific vulnerabilities. To study them is to understand the importance of a society’s structure, its standard… Continue Reading
By William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman (*) – The Nation Arms industry lobbyists are addressing this pandemic and preparing for the next by pushing weapons sales. There’s a battle brewing for the future of national security spending. On one… Continue Reading
