So Long to American Exceptionalism
in Donald Trump’s America, we’re inside the community of nations in a grim new way: as fellow patients, grievers, and supplicants in search of food and shelter, along with so…
Seven Ways Trump’s Mendacity Surrendered Nation to Covid-19
Many Americans believe that Trump ignored the COVID-19 virus until too late. There has, however, been no systematic analysis of how Trump’s denials and related delay injured our country’s response.…
Plague Journal #9: Follow the Money, Discover the Stench
There is talk – just talk so far – about cancelling some of the massive, totally unnecessary death culture abundance. But just how much we even spend on it is…
Nomi Prins: Big Banks Got the Sweetest Deal from the Covid-19 Bailouts
The banking expert explains why Congress’ stimulus bill has been a boon for Wall Street and not the small businesses that need it most.
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Dr. Margaret Flowers: Does Medicare for All Await Us at the End of This Viral Massacre?
The Popular Resistance co-founder predicts how the coronavirus pandemic will impact the ongoing struggle for universal health care in the U.S.
Ellen Brown: Coronavirus Proves Capitalism Has Always Been a Lie
Economist Ellen Brown sheds light on the intricacies of an economic system that is being unmasked by the government’s pandemic response.
In the Classroom that Zoom Built
Consider the deep 'missingness' that teacher Belle Chesler has found in a public-school world that has collapsed into a Zoom heap amid the deep inequality and unfairness of a system…
Plague Journal #8: Medicare Mills and Nursing Home Nightmares
This week Cuomo, in an aside during his daily, nationally televised press briefing , made a memorable understatement. “Now is not the best time to put your mother in a…
Coronavirus: Scientific Realities vs. Economic Fallacies
Why do we live in a social and economic system that can only exist in a state of frantic movement forward and up, and for which it is impossible to…
Ann Jones: Getting Trumped by Covid-19
As the coronavirus runs wild in Donald Trump’s America, veteran journalist and humanitarian Ann Jones offered a vivid analysis of how two countries, Norway and the U.S., dealt with it…
New Fauci Interview: No Scientific Evidence the Virus Linked to China Lab
In an exclusive deep-dive interview with National Geographic published Monday, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases “shot down the discussion that has been raging…
Plague Journal #7: Remembering the Shock of Reporting on Kent State
A mostly forgotten element that bridges the Nixon-Trump eras is the thuggish fact-free ways Trump et al are dividing the country to preserve their electoral viability. As is the search…
Tom Engelhardt: ‘The Killer-in-Chief’
Historically speaking, killing Afghans or Iraqis or Syrians or Yemenis or Somalis has always been one thing, but Americans? That’s another story entirely, no? As it happens, the answer is…
Kevin Cooper: Experiencing COVID-19 on Death Row
A letter from Kevin Cooper to Death Penalty Focus.
Sam Husseini: Contrary to Claims, the Pandemic May Have Come from a Lab — and Regardless, It Exposes the Threat of Biowarfare Arms Race
Regardless of the source of this pandemic, there is considerable documentation that a global biological arms race going on outside of public view could produce even more deadly pandemics in…