Nomi Prins compares four key factors — unemployment, the economy, the market, and the Federal Reserve’s response — in the crises then and now.
COVID-19: The Great Depression & the Corona Shock
Category: Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News
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.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: US, China & Hong Kong’s Betrayal
The territory’s likely loss of autonomy is a tragedy made worse because it could have been avoided.
COVID-19: FDR’s Polio Crusade & Leadership Amid Crisis
Thomas Doherty offers a reminder of the lesser-known battle that FDR waged, in public and in private.
Partisanship Aside, Trump Had Reason to Fire Michael Atkinson, Say Two Former CIA Whistleblowers
The inspector general violated the law by protecting the “Ukraine whistleblower” and proved to be the enemy of real whistleblowers, say John Kiriakou and Pedro Israel Orta.
RAY McGOVERN: Once We Were Allies; Then Came MICIMATT
As the 75th anniversary of World War II’s end is marked on Friday, few Americans know the Soviet Union’s major role in that victory, making them vulnerable to today’s anti-Russian messaging.
COVID-19: Complicit in Millions of Deaths Since 1945, UK Govt Won’t Face Justice Over Virus
Britain’s unwritten constitution is still permeated by the medieval concept of Crown immunity. It deems ministers can’t break the law and act not as persons but agents of the Crown, says Mark Curtis.
COVID-19: May Day 2020 Showed Worker Unity in the Age of Pandemic
On May Day, Americans were more aware of the plight of workers than at any time in decades, argues Peter Dreier.
How Britain’s Labour Govt Facilitated Massacre of Biafrans in Nigeria – To Protect its Oil Interests
Declassified British files show that Harold Wilson’s government secretly armed and backed Nigeria’s aggression against the secessionist region, Mark Curtis reports.
COVID-19: Diary of Samuel Pepys Shows How Life Under Bubonic Plague Mirrored Today’s Pandemic
During the outbreak, the diarist was very concerned with his frame of mind; he constantly mentioned that he was trying to be in good spirits, writes Ute Lotz-Heumann.