We are now battling the public health challenge of our lifetimes without the tests, treatments and vaccines we need, writes Dana Brown.
The Public Option in Pharmaceuticals
Category: COVID-19
US Military Robots on Fast Track to Leadership Role
It’s time for Congress to ask tough questions about automating combat decision-making before pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into the enterprise, writes Michael T. Klare.
COVID-19: Latin American Women are Disappearing & Dying Under Lockdown
It’s a pandemic within the pandemic, writes Lynn Marie Stephen.
COVID-19: Will Public Schools Survive a Reopening?
Truly caring for students during the pandemic would mean extending unemployment benefits, providing rental assistance and enacting universal health care, writes Belle Chesler.
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.
COVID-19: Pentagon Secrecy on Virus at Guantanamo Another Reason to Shut Offshore Prison, Democratic Senators Say
Lawmakers raised the case for closure days after the international Red Cross canceled its visit to Guantanamo Bay, citing concerns over the pandemic.
CEOs Now Make 320 Times More Than Typical Worker
The Economic Policy Institute finds that growth in CEO compensation far outstripped that of the stock market.
COVID-19: This Pandemic Brings Out the Worst in Our CEOs
Jim Hightower spotlights the “me-first” greed of a corporate chieftain.
BEIRUT EXPLOSION: It Is Late, But it Is Early Morning if We Insist
The explosion is the cherry on top of the horrors of a 30-year post-civil war political structure that saw militia leaders turn in their fatigues for business suits, writes Vijay Prashad.