While the risk to workers remains the same, the situation is now very different from employers’ perspective, writes Nicole Hallett.
COVID-19: Hazard Pay & Why Amazon and Others Are Ending It
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Nationwide Uprising Against Failed State
To achieve the changes we need, people must stay in the streets and connect the problems we face to the demand for systemic changes, write Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers.
WATCH: CN LIVE! New Episode—‘Pandemic Down Under’
On this episode of CN Live! we examined in detail one of the few success stories in the coronavirus pandemic, asking how Australia has been able to escape the worst of the crisis.
New UK Laws Could Criminalize Journalism
The British government is pursuing “espionage legislation” that could criminalise the release of public information as part of an “epidemic of secrecy,” reports Richard Norton-Taylor.
COVID-19: Trump Quits the World Health Organization; the Victim is the United States
After Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of WHO on Friday, the reputation of the agency has been damaged far less than the image of the United States, argues Barbara Crossette.
LETTER FROM LONDON: The Price of Boris Johnson – Britain’s Covid-19 Debacle
Alexander Mercouris takes us through the blow-by-blow of the first four months of the crisis in Britain, and it’s not a pretty picture.
COVID-19: The Great Depression & the Corona Shock
Nomi Prins compares four key factors — unemployment, the economy, the market, and the Federal Reserve’s response — in the crises then and now.
Australia & the Working of the American Imperial Hand
The paradox of Australia: a wealthy country whose complacent, U.S.-indoctrinated political elites are betraying its promise in so many important ways, writes Tony Kevin.
Covid-19: Doctors Demand Hospital Industry Stop Funding Dark Money Lobby Group
Progressive physicians are pressing the American Hospital Association to support patients and healthcare workers during the pandemic instead of wasting money on a lobby group that opposes universal coverage, Jake Johnson reports.
COVID-19 Leads to Nosedive in Remittances to Latin America
Entire families are sliding back into poverty now that relatives working abroad, who have lost work due to the pandemic, can no longer afford to send money home, Humberto Márquez reports.