Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers: The Decade of Transformation is Here
Remaking the Economy for the People
Chard deNiord: Last Goodbye in the Time of Corona
The darkness arrived without your voice
or touch, my love, and yet I heard
your voice and felt your hand in mine.
Robert Walicki: Storm
It’s 40 degrees, and windy enough to lift us
off the edge of the earth, and this hospital roof,
where we drop the heads of metal snakes down stacks,
next to exhaust vents carrying the breath of the dying
Jill Richardson: We are all in this together
Why we can’t be okay with other people bearing the brunt of a pandemic or recession.
Arie Kruglanski: 3 ways the coronavirus pandemic is changing who we are
The stressful external forces this pandemic unleashed are exerting a deep internal effect. Little by little, they are changing who we are and how we relate to people and the world.
Christine Rhein: Panic
Because it’s too late now
to sound the alarm
over the lack of alarm,
over the sudden
wealth of it.
Belinda Kong: How Chinese people came together when separated by quarantine, creating hope, humor and art
Fear and blame appear to be fast becoming Americans’ defining emotions around COVID-19. Headlines seem to offer either worst-case estimates or government leaders’ mutual accusations. Amid the bewildering figures and … Continue reading
Robert Okaji: Postcard from Pandemic
They stack their cart with essentials:
frozen garlic, six packages of grilled
mushrooms, fifteen cans of garbanzo
beans, three bottles of truffle oil
Laurie Marhoefer: COVID-19 | Three lessons from the AIDS crisis
The U.S. made serious mistakes when the HIV virus and AIDS emerged. Those errors cost many lives. But our nation learned a few things, too.
Ellen Brown: The Fed’s Baffling Response to the Coronavirus Explained
The next time the country’s largest banks become insolvent, rather than bailing banks out, Congress should nationalize them.
