Developing a Vaccine for Covid-19. What To Expect?
A quick look at the state of play for a Covid-19 vaccine.
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Firing of Whistleblowing Emergency Room Doctor Ming Lin By Blackstone-Owned TeamHealth Demonstrates Outsized Role of Private Equity in Hospital Staffing
Blackstone’s TeamHealth, a big perp in the scam called “surprise billing,” retaliated against a doctor who criticized unsafe Covid-19 practices.
Read more...Brace Yourselves: The US Is Setting Up a Ghastly “Natural Experiment”
The US may be about to be exceptional…in not a good way.
Read more...Bills are Due and Payable: Workplace Strikes and Rent Strikes
A round-up of strike activity, with advice for the Sanders campaign.
Read more...Having It Easy in the Beginning, Tough in the End: How My Dad Predicted the Decline of America
This should be a time for a genuinely new approach, one fit for a world of rising disruption and disaster, one that would define a new, more democratic, less bellicose America.
Read more...Radical Imagination: Imagining How the World of Finance Really Works
Michael Hudson rings the changes on some of his favorite themes: the logic of ancient debt jubilees. and the role of finance in contemporary rent extraction.
Read more...Tax Justice and Modern Monetary Theory – A Guide
Does Modern Monetary Theory take tax justice for granted?
Read more...Why COVID-19 Will Strain the Safety Net for Homeless Vets to the Breaking Point
While the COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented, the slapdash response underscores how fragile the safety net for America’s homeless really is.
Read more...The Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Is a $2 Trillion Slush Fund for Washington Cronies
Why you should hate the coronavirus “stimulus” bill.
Read more...COVID-19 and the Working Class in the United States
Whither the working class after the Sanders campaign?
Read more...The Irish Buddhist Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire
Dhammaloka’s story sheds new light on the history of non-violent resistance.
Read more...Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: Coronavirus and Food Security
UN warns about coronavirus and food shortages. Will the crisis revive policies to encourage regional and national food self-sufficiency?
Read more...Covid-19 Hits the Dual Economy: Incomes Destroyed at the Bottom, Profits Supported at the Top
Why preserving (big) corporate profits will not bail out the economy.
Read more...Can the Intra-Party Rift Be Healed, At Least For Now? Or Must the Fight Be Fought in 2020?
Is the Democratic Party redeemable?
Read more...COVID-19 and Class in the United States
Globalization , globalizers, and COVID-19.
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