Friday, 29 March , 2024

US society

6% of Confirmed Coronavirus-19 Cases End in Death

By Eric Zuesse June 6, 2020 As of the end of the day on May 28th (start of May 29th), there had been a global...

The Murder of George Floyd Is Normal in an Abnormal Society

By Vijay Prashad June 3, 2020 There is no need to wonder why George Floyd (age 46) was murdered in broad daylight in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on...

It’s a Class War Now Too

By Joshua Frank June 1, 2020 Photo: Ronnie Mendoza The scene along Melrose Avenue, one of L.A’s most renowned shopping districts, is now one of vengeance. Shards...

Coronavirus calls US’ ‘world’s richest country’ bluff: Will it cling to...

by Helen Buyniski 16 Mar, 2020 The coronavirus containment measures the US has (belatedly, reluctantly) taken are revealing enormous fissures in its first-world facade, from legions...

Death toll rises to 71, more than 1,000 missing from devastating...

By Evan Blake 17 November 2018 The ongoing wildfires in California, including the most deadly and destructive in the state’s history, are a horrific exposure...

Shocked, Burnt and Bruised: the Plight of Workers at Tesla’s Plants

“I hear coworkers quietly say that they are hurting but they are too afraid to report it for fear of being labeled as a...

The Coming Collapse

By Chris Hedges May 20, 2018 The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is...

The Deadly Rule of the Oligarchs

By Chris Hedges Feb 11, 2018 Oligarchic rule, as Aristotle pointed out, is a deviant form of government. Oligarchs care nothing for competency, intelligence, honesty, rationality,...

America’s Painful Self-delusion

By Allen Marshall December 14, 2017 America is the only nation brought forth by a set of beliefs, and those beliefs, captured so eloquently in...

The Opioid Epidemic in America – Killing One Million People

The Triumph of Capital (Creating a Domestic ‘Shithole’) By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya The link between capitalism and drugs reaches back to the middle...