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Throughout U.S. history, presidents have exploited national emergencies to exceed their constitutional powers

Classical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire’s famines—following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly

Will we finally wake up from our American dream, open our eyes and start learning from our neighbors in other countries, including ones that have different political, economic and healthcare systems than ours?

Particularly now, with intense focus on U.S. health care, it’s timely to recognize that in the past five years U.S. supported Gulf Coalition airstrikes bombed Yemen’s health care facilities 83 times

Trump is a ‘true believer’ that the market solves everything and immediately. Just wave the magic market wand and it will appear

The gross incompetence of our leaders may be their undoing. Their greed is unsustainable at this point

Israeli Occupation Authorities Demolish Makeshift Field Hospital in Palestinian Hamlet

We know we won’t starve to death, because solidarity is alive and well in every corner of the country

We need a solution that can be used even faster than any industry bailout or targeted reinsurance program that has the government take on the insurers’ cost for covering Covid-19 patients

Trump can continue his “maximum pressure campaign” against Iran and face continued Iraqi attacks on US troops. Or he can back off to focus on domestic concerns and avoid a wider war

Ireland Nationalizes Hospitals for Duration of Coronavirus Crisis, Sparking Demand for US to Follow Suit

When soldiers go to battle, They have guns in hand. They can see the enemy, They can kill, defend.   But, the nurses and the doctors Who tend infected cases Have not a clue when The virus may hit their faces.   When soldiers die fighting, Their loved ones their  losses rue; But an infected Read more…

—Not the Other Way Around

We call on you to fulfill your moral and Constitutional responsibilities: expand the COVID-19 emergency provisions to care for us all and enact our Moral Agenda immediately

The airline industry will not survive the coronavirus. Now is the time to nationalize it — and use this moment to chart a course to a low-carbon future

For the far right, the pandemic is a chance to enact border controls and erode the rule of law. It could also expose their utter incompetence

“Gilead is notorious for price gouging. Gilead holds the key to bringing down and ending both HIV and hep C epidemics, and in both cases, prices have played a real factor in our inability to stop both epidemics. And that’s terrifying.”

It now seems clear that capitalism is the fear that somewhere someone is having their basic human needs met

Say Worst Yet to Come as COVID-19 Spreads

he fact that so many Americans are facing dire circumstances now is a direct result of the exploitation economy and we should take this opportunity to change it

The history of education is full of episodes whereby necessity, through crises in the form of occupation, led to ingenuity

Misinformation and the Coronavirus

How Austerity and Anti-immigrant Politics Left Italy Exposed

There is a kind of tragic karma to the fact that so many major countries – meaning major economies – are today run by the very men least equipped ideologically, emotionally and spiritually to deal with the virus

Hospitals in Seattle, are seriously planning for how to decide which patients will get one of the limited number of ventilators available, and which ones will be left to fend for themselves

There are plenty of places you can direct your energies to support people taking an economic hit during the pandemic

U.S sanctions toward Venezuela and Iran continue as Coronavirus Spreads

Venezuelans waiting to go home understand that their chances of surviving the coronavirus – both physically and economically – are much better in a country that values health over profits

Israel has not eased up on its abuses of Palestinians despite the pandemic. In one shocking incident on Monday, a Palestinian laborer with flu-like symptoms and a fever was dumped at a West Bank checkpoint by Israeli police

Nothing Could Be Further From the Truth

Even Under U.S. Sanctions, Cuba Sends Doctor Brigade to Italy and More

Cuba is caricatured by the Right as a totalitarian hellhole. But its response to the coronavirus pandemic — from sending doctors to other countries to pioneering anti-viral treatments to converting factories into mask-making machines — is putting other countries, even rich countries, to shame

If the United States fails to act decisively now, it will follow Italy’s course or, worse, that of Iran, and recovery may take a decade or more with extraordinary levels of death and dislocation

COVID-19 is heightening the life-and-death consequences of economic, racial and other forms of inequality

Whether the epidemic helps deliver the good or the most evil society will depend, of course, on us – on whether progressives manage to band together

In a pandemic, a rational person would much rather live in a society governed by the norms of socialism than of capitalism, a society where people rally together to overcome a virus; than to live in a society where fear pervades

Interview on why the Left around Europe is struggling to overcome Syriza’s disastrous legacy

Why It Won’t Be Enough

The Great Recession could have killed globalization, but China emerged as the champion of a new global “connectivity.” With the coronavirus, that phase is finished

Today, new forms of solidarity, mutual aid, and common struggle are emerging in the pandemic. How will they shape tomorrow’s struggles for a post-capitalist world?

“President Trump should be using the DPA to ensure we have enough ventilators and other medical equipment to deal with this crisis”

What does the pandemic tell us about the nuclear family and private household?

The challenges facing disabled people – and their demands of the British government

Putting Profits Before Workers’ Safety

Corona is a dictator With global dominance; What man may speak of anything but Its universal preponderance.   The Neros, Hitlers, Stalins They were but limited ghouls; Corona’s colossal nothingness All states and nations rules.   Is there a something from whose womb This nothingness has birth? Is nothingness an idea Destined to suck in Read more…

The coronavirus outbreak is serving as a mind-expansion exercise, making hitherto unthinkable solutions thinkable. Debts that can’t be paid won’t be. A debt jubilee may be the best way out.

The COVID-19 mitigation effort presents an unexpected blueprint for what rapid change in the face of a climate crisis might look like. In fact, the current situation should give us hope in our ability to cope with rapid change and encourage us to recognize our resilience

They fear economic collapse and their loss of incomes more than the virus and its destruction of American lives

In the UK, the US and Australia, governments built on dirty money cannot be trusted to protect us from the coronavirus.

Pandora’s Box is open, and our ruthless economic system is making everything far worse