U.S. Declares a Vaccine War on the World
The U.S. fumbled its coronavirus response. Its intent to hoard vaccine profits only isolates it from other countries working on remedies.
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COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Surge: The Impact of Wisconsin’s In-Person Primary Vote
Yves here. Correlation is not causation, but the Wisconsin primary looks to have ushered in more Covid-19 infections. By Phillip Alvelda. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website The world is on edge at the prospect of a resurgent wave of infections. Models and speculation are rife, but facts remain scarce, which […]
Read more...Coronavirus Bad Look at Grandview Medical Center ER in Birmingham, Alabama
Coronavirus mask defiers in all the wrong places.
Read more...Political Scientist Tom Ferguson on Big Money and Social Conflicts in the Covid-19 Era
An incisive take from the no-holds-barred Tom Ferguson.
Read more...What Are the Three Concurrent Crises of the Coronavirus Depression?
Past theories of crises and why they matter now.
Read more...How Covid-19 is Creating a Social-Distancing Version of War
Covid-19 meets the US military and the Pentagon yields.
Read more...Study: Hunters Kill Birds During Their Annual Migrations Through the East Asian-Australasian Flyway
Study: hunters slaughter birds as the undertake their annual migrations in chokepoints along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.
Read more...Nature Pimps for Fundamentally Flawed Gates-Funded “Swab Yourself” Covid-19 Test
An ambitious Bill Gates funded Covid-19 testing program called SCAN suffers from the health care version of “assume a can opener”.
Read more...New York Rent Strikes During the 1918 “Spanish” Influenza
The hard-fought rent battles during and after the Spanish flu make modern protests look tame.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Debt, Liberty and “Acts of God”
How ancient societies forgave debt that became unpayable due to circumstances outside the borrower’s control.
Read more...#COVID19: New Practical Results on Airborne Transmission Indoors
To avoid airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2, don’t be like a bat!
Read more...If the Federal Government Won’t Fund the States’ Emergency Needs, There Is Another Solution
Some ways aroung the Federal government’s present refusal to do much for state and localities.
Read more...Food Security: Prince Charles Calls for Furloughed Workers to Pick Berries; My Thoughts as a Former Tomato Picker
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...Bernie Sanders Says It Is ‘Nauseating’ to See Corporations Praise Frontline Workers as ‘Heroes’ While Refusing to Pay Them 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...Wolf Richter: Week 9 of the Collapse of the U.S. Labor Market: Still Getting Worse at a Gut-Wrenching Pace
Thursday’s unemployment numbers show that the U.S. unemployment numbers have not yet bottomed out – and that instead, the problem is worsening at a gut-wrenching pace.
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