Truly caring for students during the pandemic would mean extending unemployment benefits, providing rental assistance and enacting universal health care, writes Belle Chesler.
COVID-19: Will Public Schools Survive a Reopening?
Month: August 2020
WATCH: WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs: What It Means for Press Freedom
WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson leads a discussion with investigative journalists Iain Overton and Chris Woods about the impact of the Iraq War Logs’ release a decade ago.
An Attack on Edward Said’s Legacy
Lawrence Davidson responds to Caroline Glick’s tirade, picked up by Newsweek, against the late American-Palestinian scholar.
RAY McGOVERN: Catapulting Russian-Meddling Propaganda
The New York Times is leading the full-court press to improve on what it regards as Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s weak-kneed effort to blame the Russians for giving us Donald Trump.
Oligarchic Dozen: Wealth of These 12 Tops $1 Trillion
Chuck Collins and Omar Ocampo report on a milestone in the U.S. history of concentrated wealth and power.
Protecting Food From the Hungry
This absence of money — the most mystical of all human creations — is enough reason to let people starve, writes Vijay Prashad.
Warnings of Scheme to ‘Kill Postal Banking’ With ATMs in Post Offices
The plan, revealed in an internal USPS document, is getting slammed as yet another Wall Street power-grab.
QAnon Is a Fake, Decoy Imitation of a Healthy Revolutionary Impulse
Caitlin Johnstone calls QAnon a propaganda construct designed to manufacture support for the status quo among people who otherwise would not support it.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Trump’s Choice for Germany
High among Douglas Macgregor’s qualifications as U.S. ambassador to Germany is his opposition to endless wars.
There’s Enough Blame to Go Around in Belarus
There are many similarities to what is happening in Minsk today to what happened in Kiev in 2014, but there are also significant differences, writes Joe Lauria.