Sam Pizzigati says the British urban center has just delivered what egalitarians worldwide have sorely needed in the face of this pandemic.
A Manchester United for a More Equal Metropolis
Category: COVID-19
Auditing Absentee Ballot Deadlines in US 2020 Election
The results provide perspective on a controversy that sharply divided the Supreme Court, writes Richard Pildes.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Leave Prisoners in Home Confinement
PEPE ESCOBAR: The Slave, The Orator & The Emperor
A trio of Stoics from Ancient Greece offer philosophical opposition to today’s turbo capitalism in this excerpt from “Raging Twenties, Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism.”
COVID-19: The Vaccine Must Be a Common Good for Humanity
Vijay Prashad calls out the Global North, Big Pharma and the capitalist logic of intellectual property rights.
COVID-19: Experts Warn of Failing to Rapidly ‘Vaccinate the World’ & Creating Dangerous Opening for Virus
Many leading epidemiologists believe the international community has a year or less before mutations proliferate widely.
COVID-19: People Gave Up on Flu Pandemic Measures a Century Ago When They Tired of Them – and Paid a Price
If we have anything to learn from the history of the 1918 influenza pandemic, it is that a premature return to pre-pandemic life risks more cases and more deaths, writes J. Alexander Navarro.
COVID-19: Greed Drove Big Pharma Companies to Privatize Vaccines
The AstraZeneca jab was actually developed by scientists from a publicly-funded institution, writes Nick Dearden in a retort to comments by Boris Johnson.
Rescuing Rich Investors in Poor Countries
Lessons to Learn from Kerala
Vijay Prashad interviews the finance minister of the populous Indian state about the “hop, skip and jump” gains by the Left Democratic Front government there.