Covid-19 May Be Accelerating a Genocide of Brazil’s Indigenous People
It is even more difficult to pin down data on infections and deaths in their communities than it is for the general Brazilian population.
Vaccine at ‘Warp Speed’: When Profits and Politics Drive Science
Speculative bets with taxpayer money are being made on unproven technologies in the early stages of testing.
Plague Journal #13: Trump Plutocrats and Plunderers Confront ‘Black Lives Matter’
If he is unable to bring about civil strife as an electoral tactic, the future of organized, effective opposition is far from clear.
Plague Journal #12: This Year the ‘Tea’ Becomes ‘We’
George Floyd cannot and will not be forgotten!
A Speech to the Class of 2020: You Didn’t Deserve This
How the roof fell in, a graduation speech for an age of collapse
Danny Sjursen: The End of Warfare As We Know It?
The future of forever war, American-style
Andrea Mazzarino: Who Is ‘Essential’ to Our Covid-19 World
A military spouse’s perspective on fighting this pandemic
Foreign Correspondent: The Rest of the World Sees Uprisings, Not Riots
The black liberation movement has a long history of solidarity with the Third World. Some of today’s protesters, particularly whites, may not be familiar with that history and its lessons…
Foreign Correspondent: How Cuba Is Fighting the Virus
So far government efforts have severely restricted the pandemic's spread since it was first discovered among foreign tourists.
Plague Journal #11: A Different Kind of Education Experience
Online learning is no panacea for what ails education, now or ever.
Pandemic News – Then and Now
A poem ripped from the headlines by a queer who remembers
Plague Journal #10: What Kids Remember
Whether it was the duck and cover drills of last centry, or wearing masks and social distancing today, children are asked to weather disasters of adult leadership.
Fundamentalist Pandemics
A Tomgram: Juan Cole, Iran and the U.S., an irony of curious affinity.
The End of Privacy?
FROM CNN: It took the attacks of September 11, 2001 to shove aside the previous decade’s phobia of mass surveillance, and usher in an era where many of us imagined…
What Impact Has Coronavirus Had on Policing?
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