Some thoughts from a former tomato picker – moi – on the call from Prince Charles for furloughed workers to help with the food harvest in Britain.
Read more...Whatever you may think of Bernie Sanders suspending his presidential campaign, his criticism of corporations who laud workers as heroes while refusing to pay them is spot on.
Read more...A short history of the fight to make workplaces less dangerous to your health.
Read more...Contesting the messaging about lockdown protests.
Read more...Neglecting facilities that serve Medicaid patients in the Covid-19 rescues puts health infrastructure for the poor at risk of collapse.
Read more...More evidence, as if you needed it, that the super rich are not your friends.
Read more...The US is willing to practice human sacrifice, rather than explore a way of defining wealth outlined by 19th-century thinker John Ruskin.
Read more...In case you wondered why conservative states are all gung ho about reopening….
Read more...Funny how that small business bailout worked…..
Read more...Once again, income earned by the many is used to save the wealth of the few.
Read more...Foreign Affairs runs “dangerous to your health” propaganda from the Sweden without informing its readers.
Read more...Looking at how to cope with the college and university funding crisis.
Read more...Why two Queens neighborhoods, Flushing and Corona, had very different Covid-19 outcomes.
Read more...Covid-19 as yet another opporutnity for elite prejudice.
Read more...Big tech, nationalist politics, and the billionaire class have propelled a novel political economy. What impact will the virus have on this new status quo?
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