America’s High Covid Death Toll Is a Result of Capitalist Austerity Policies
The Biden administration is continuing them and has declared an end to the pandemic when it still exists.
Biden’s Failure to Provide At-Home Covid Tests Looks Extra Ridiculous Arriving From the U.K.
Why is the Biden administration only now making rapid antigen tests available for free when the British government has been doing so for months?
What Will We Remember of 2022?
If you someday tell your grandchildren about this world of ours and what we’ve lived through, will the Pandemic of 2020-?? and the Climate Crisis of 1900-21?? be forgotten? I…
COVID Europa: The Fourth Wave
By Kenneth Surin / CounterPunch Europe is embarking on a fourth wave in Covid cases. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have placed several European countries in its…
Why I’m Not Rushing to Get My Six-Year-Old the COVID-19 Vaccine
Like many Americans, I have concerns about giving my six-year-old a new vaccine that was not tested on humans until last year.
Don’t Believe the Corporate “Labor Shortage” Bullsh*t
What's really happening is more accurately described as a living-wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a childcare shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.
Doctors Without Borders Slams U.S. for Hoarding 500 Million Vaccine Doses
Vaccine inequity is a global problem in which the U.S. is heavily implicated.
The CDC Only Tracks a Fraction of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections, Even as Cases Surge
A May 1 decision by the CDC to only track breakthrough infections that lead to hospitalization or death has left the nation with a muddled understanding of COVID-19's impact on…
Hedges and Žižek, pt 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost
Chris Hedges continues his discussion with philosopher Slavoj Žižek about the social, political and psychological consequences of the prolonged lockdown, social distancing, and mass illness and death caused by the…
Chris Hedges and Slavoj Zizek on the Pandemic’s Ramifications
On this week’s “On Contact,” in the first of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses the social, political, cultural economic ramifications of the pandemic with the philosopher Slavoj Zizek. Below…
The Military Wasn’t a Way Out of Poverty For Me
Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the first place.
Vaccine Nationalism Will Be the Death of Us All
With almost four million people on Planet Earth officially already dead from Covid-19 and the toll on the poorer parts of the planet rising fast, the saddest story of all…
How to Make Obscene Amounts of Money Off a Pandemic
Just over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems we've quickly forgotten (or perhaps never even noticed) the corporate profiteers linked to Trump’s crew in this period.
How America Went From Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism
The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and what can be done?
Melina Abdullah: ‘When We Fight, We Win’
As the jury was deliberating its verdict in George Floyd’s murder by former police officer Derek Chauvin, BLM co-founder Melina Abdullah spoke with Robert Scheer about the movement’s enormous impact…