Lockdowns reveal helplessness rather than power. While in a crisis some will take advantage of disaster, it makes no sense that dominant economic powers sought this crisis for some mysterious benefit to themselves, says Diana Johnstone.
While monumental shocks currently pound citizens around the world, an orgiastic festival of exploitation is underway.
Nomi Prins writes about bailouts in the time of the coronavirus.
The answer is no, writes the Public Banking Institute’s Ellen Brown. But the door to that result has been cracked open.
Many must get infected in the street rather than die by hunger at home, report Jeb Sprague and Nazaire St. Fort.
Ben Norton reports on comments by Lula da Silva that have been ignored by English-language media.
Lawyers are highlighting the High Court’s role in previously deciding on Jim-Crow era practices that excluded African-Americans from participating in Democratic primaries in the South, reports Elizabeth Vos.
In the new diplomatic landscape, which can as yet only be dimly seen, old verities going back to 1945 will be rediscovered, writes Tony Kevin.
William J. Astore takes this coronaviral moment as an opportunity to imagine a more democratic, less bellicose America.
A “short time” system, which proved highly successful during the Great Recession of 2008-2012, is being used to prevent a wave of unemployment, Klaus W. Larres reports.