“Since capitalism never could end cyclical downturns and their awful effects, its survival required making those effects somehow socially tolerable. Systemic racism survived in the post-Civil War United States partly because it helped to achieve ...
(Benjamin Studebaker) All around us, the quarantine is beginning to die. In the United States, the Southern states are slowly abandoning it and many Midwestern states are planning to follow. But it’s not just Republicans. ...
How ECON 100 obscures the relationships among capitalism, racism and racial inequality. Racial inequality is a glaring, enduring and essential fact about the US economy. But remarkably, mainstream economics (that is, the ECON learned by most ...
Organized labor led no mass opposition to Trump’s presidency or the December 2017 tax cut or the failed U.S. preparation for and management of COVID-19. Nor do we yet see a labor-led national protest against ...
A few weeks ago, I was talking to Noam Chomsky about the state of the world. At one point, Noam smiled and said that he is not aware of any German doctors in Italy, even though both ...
The global economic crisis of 2008 should have taught us a lot about how governments cope with major economic shocks, but the level of analysis in 2020 has been abysmal. (Benjamin Studebaker) We never seem ...
The series of debilitating military setbacks that Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar suffered in recent months have spurred diplomatic activities over the conflict in the country. But the war is far from over. Haftar’s dream of capturing ...
(Benjamin Studebaker) As the coronavirus crisis drags on, it has become popular to declare this to be the death of neoliberalism. If neoliberalism were simply noninterference in the economy, the large stimulus packages passed around ...
U.S. economic policy now focuses on what is already the worst business cycle downturn since the 1929 crash. As data accumulate, it may well prove to be the worst in global capitalism’s entire history. Capitalism ...
(Benjamin Studebaker) A short while ago, we were making political demands on our states, of various kinds. Some of us wanted our governments to do more to stop the spread of the virus and save ...
Most scientists agree that an unprecedented economic transformation is now needed to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C and avert climate breakdown. (Common Dreams) The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a sharp and sudden shock to the global ...
The utter failure of private capitalism to prepare for the coronavirus should have surprised no one. Private capitalism, as business school graduates repeat, focuses on profit. The “profit incentive,” they learn, makes private capitalism the ...
On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a cable to U.S. State Department instructing officials how they should speak about ...
This is part 3 of a multi-article series about the Shark Tank collaborative involving NIH and BARDA Part 1 click here Part 2 click here BARDA’S Involvement Dr Gary Dr Disbrow – Acting Director of ...
A new contact tracing program was recently unveiled in Massachusetts in partnership with Partners in Health, an NGO with links to US regime change operations, big pharma and the Clinton Foundation. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress ...
Multinational corporations are motivated by profit, which comes from disease, not people’s health. We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the influenza of 1918. It is forgotten that another pandemic known as “the third ...
Most of the most powerful players in the world of digital surveillance aren’t government intelligence agencies, but private corporations. Technological advances and seismic shifts in the way information is diffused and transmitted have categorized the ...
(David Swanson) I’m not quite as big a fan of the new film “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” as Jon Schwarz is but think he makes some great points about it, as he usually does. The film doesn’t ...
The U.S. President Donald Trump has tied himself and onlookers in knots by his alternating encomiums for and diatribes against China over COVID-19 in the recent weeks. Only he can cut the Gordian knot, and ...
According to the IMF, the COVID-19 related economic downturn of 2020 is the world’s worst since the Great Depression. On April 14, the International Monetary Fund released a grim outlook for 2020, making the COVID-19 ...
Discrepancies in different country’s official death counts relate to decisions as to whether to include deaths that are not directly caused by COVID-19 in the official figures. As of May 1st, COVID-19 has infected more ...
“Profit-driven capitalism proved extremely inefficient in its response to the virus.” Consider this absurdity: The U.S. government’s policy in the face of the current capitalist crash is to “return the economy to the pre-coronavirus normal.” ...
One of the first steps taken by governments worldwide to stop the spread of COVID-19 was the closure of schools, colleges and universities. This obviously has had a major impact on students and teachers due ...
The U.S, Italy, and Indonesia have the highest mortality rates from COVID-19, according to Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Deep Knowledge Venture. Hong Kong-based venture capital firm Deep Knowledge Venture (DKV) released the latest ...
We must not suffer such a dangerous and unnecessary social breakdown again. The desperate policies of panic-driven governments involve throwing huge amounts of money at the economies collapsed in response to the coronavirus threat. Monetary ...
In an exclusive for MintPress, constitutional attorney John Whitehead warns that the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to bring the American Police State out into the open on a scale we’ve not seen before. (By: John Whitehead, ...
“One has to wonder how long China would have kept up their false narratives if not for whistle-blowing medical professionals and personal accounts of citizens on the ground in Wuhan.” Americans are often quick to ...
Attendees at the conference discussed the Coronavirus outbreak, Libya, the Iran nuclear deal, and other topics. On February 16, the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) 2020 held in the Germany city of Munich wrapped up ...
“Both the far right and Islamist extremists benefit when their professed enemies engage in a terror attack or do anything that confirms their narratives. They want to see more rifts and more chaos in society. ...
“Ginger tea, yoga, etc are symptomatic treatment methods – they’re good in helping boost your immunity. But it’s not a proper cure. A proven cure for Coronavirus has not been found yet.” The New Coronavirus ...
“The destruction of their culture directly affects the identity, dignity and future of the Yemeni people, and moreover their ability to believe in the future.” There is an important aspect of the war in Yemen ...
Despite heightened militarization and oppressive tactics by states, people across the world refused to give in and fought back for their rights to life and dignity. (By Anish R, Umer Beigh and Abhijan Choudhury, Peoples Dispatch) Under ...
After Israel, the Islamic Republic is home to the largest population of Jews in the Middle East. On December 14, 2019, a white male entered the Nessah Synagogue in Beverly Hills, vandalizing the sanctuary. He unrolled Torah ...
A new report shows that during Modi’s tenure there have been about 200 documented cases of attacks on journalists who tell the truth about the Modi government. Every day and in every part of India, hundreds ...
A study of the first ten months of the Washington Post’s opinion columns in 2009 found that pro-war columns outnumbered antiwar columns by more than 10 to 1. (By FAIR) The Washington Post’s publication of ...
Hawaiian gun deaths are the lowest in the nation, but even Hawaii’s strict gun laws couldn’t prevent the shooting at Pearl Harbor last week. On Dec. 4 U.S. Navy sailor Gabriel Romero fatally shot two ...
After many protests, some violent, Iraq is stepping away from under Iran’s shadow to establish its own self-governance. Following an almost irresistible, and admittedly unforeseen, rise to the height of power in the Greater Middle ...
What lies ahead for Bolivia in the aftermath of the recent coup that deposed popular indigenous leader Evo Morales? Most likely, rigged elections and the end of democracy. With every passing day, it becomes clearer ...
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced to resign after a Bolivian coup that has shaken the country and resulted in violent and deadly protests. Bolivia is currently wading through what exiled former Bolivian President ...
Popular uprisings rejecting longheld neoliberalist policies are sweeping the globe, and Chile, fittingly, may be at the forefront. Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and ...
Protests in Iraq and Lebanon have turned into anti-Iranian demonstrations, a blame Iran places on the U.S., but are the protests really the result of a U.S.-Iran proxy war? Recent protests in Iraq and Lebanon, ...
The struggle for control of Syria’s eastern oil fields has little to do with fighting terrorism but forms a crucial template of the geopolitical struggle. No one would have thought that out of U.S. President ...
Neoliberalism, the developed world’s policy framework of the past 40 years, is now in serious crisis. The slogan is pithy—Neoliberalismo nunca más (Neoliberalism Never Again). It was chanted in the streets of Santiago, Chile; it ...
How much does your city make from traffic tickets and other fines? (By Akheil Singla, The Conversation) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the last time I got a speeding ticket. It was nearly ...
If one believes in the restoration of international law and the tenets of the UN Charter, then the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from northern Syria is a good thing. Here are some facts and ...
“Russia sees the expansion of friendly and mutually beneficial ties with Saudi Arabia as particularly important.” On Monday, October 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a historic visit to Saudi Arabia, the first since 2007, ...
People are growing less tolerant to violence against animals, and lawmakers are responding. But more needs to be done. The scene was heart-crushing: 21 dogs, many sick, wounded and infected, on heavy chains or trapped ...