Once the pandemic ends, much of the American workforce will still be without basic benefits and protections taken for granted in virtually every other developed country, writes Paul F. Clark.
COVID-19: Trump Labor Department Urges Employers to Report Workers Who Stay Home Due to Virus Fears
Guaidó’s Contract on Venezuela’s President Mirrors Trump Administration Bounty
The self-declared interim president’s leaked contract with mercenary firm Silvercorp USA targets in common with a DEA hit list, Alan MacLeod reports.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Iran’s Strategic Standstill
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘Hillary Clinton’s Turn to McCarthyism’ —Robert Parry, Aug. 9, 2016
Get Ready for Next Game-Changer: The Digital Yuan
Russian Journalist Accuses New York Times of Stealing Pulitzer-Winning Scoop
The accuser is joined by other liberal, anti-Putin Russian reporters who say the Times has taken their stories without giving any credit, Ben Norton reports.
COVID-19: US Pulls Plug on Global Ceasefire Resolution
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The ‘See-No-Evil’ Phase of Russiagate
The media spinfest following the collapse of this conspiracy theory suggests our troubled republic simply cannot accept its errors, leaving us unable to learn from them.
COVID-19: 2020 Year of the Virus
RAY McGOVERN: New House Documents Sow Further Doubt That Russia Hacked the DNC
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘The Democratic Money Behind Russia-gate’—Oct.29, 2017
This is the fourth story in the Best of Consortium News series as we look back at our first 25 years throughout our jubilee year.
WATCH: ASSANGE EXTRADITION: The UK-US Extradition Treaty—Should it Be Replaced?
What Did US State Dept Know About Botched Venezuela Invasion?
RAY McGOVERN: Once We Were Allies; Then Came MICIMATT
25 YEARS OF CN: ‘Obama’s Self-Deceit’—Sept. 29, 2015
COVID-19: Nearly 200,000 Africans Could Die From Pandemic, WHO Warns
COVID-19: Cuomo & Gates Plan—Seizing on Pandemic to Privatize New York Schools—Raises Ire
COVID-19: Seniors Rip Trump for Tying Relief to Social Security Cuts
COVID-19: Donald Trump’s Caligula Moment
John Wight sizes up the tragedy and farce embodied by the U.S. president and notes that Britain has its own problems with leadership by disordered minds.