We should open the files to an independent inquiry into the origins of Covid-19 with subpoena power, insulated from agencies whose conduct is in question, write Jeffrey Sachs and Neil L. Harrison.
Jeffrey Sachs: Fauci Must Come Clean
Category: Health Care
Vijay Prashad: Profiting Off Food Kills Children
Every year in the for-profit food system, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of food-borne disease.
UN Panel Reaffirms Israel Commits Genocide; Calls for Palestinian Doctor’s Release
A U.N. commission has called on Israeli authorities to free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, provide him with medical care and free all other arbitrarily detained Palestinian medical personnel, Jessica Corbett reports.
Vijay Prashad: Over a Billion Disabled People
People with disabilities are not marginal to society but central to it — and the injustices they face reveal the failures of a world that treats human dignity as subordinate to profit.
Under Blockade & the Threat of Invasion
A short film about a breakthrough Cuban drug for treating Alzheimer’s shines light on the resilience of a nation striving to innovate under the constraints of the American blockade and threats of an invasion, writes Ullekh NP.
Hedges Report: Trump’s War on Cuba
The U.S. economic strangulation of Cuba has created unbearable hardships for the population. Medea Benjamin describes what she saw on a recent solidarity delegation and how we can break the blockade.
US & Israel Bomb 307+ Medical Facilities in Iran
The carefully planned destruction of Iran’s healthcare infrastructure fits into a long history of deliberate U.S. attacks on hospitals, writes Alan Macleod.
US TAX DAY: Avg. Taxpayer Paid $4K for War Last Year
Americans spent about 50 days working and paying taxes last year just to feed the war machine — with 23 days going to pay Pentagon contractors and their millionaire CEOs, Lindsay Koshgarian and Hanna Homestead report.
DHS Turns Warehouses into Mass Detention Camps
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in over two decades, writes Julia Norman. Detention facilities lack climate control, ventilation, running water, sanitation, medical services.
How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible
Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing — and then overcoming — the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.