( Tomdispatch.com ) – The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) virus, which causes Covid-19, seemed to emerge from deepest history, from the Black Death of the 14th century and the “Spanish Flu” of 1918. In just months, it has infected more than 1.5 million people and claimed more than 88,000 lives. The virus continues to […]
The Shame of Child Poverty in the Age of Trump: Billionaires Are Soaring, Poor Kids Are Losing More
By Rajan Menon | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – The plight of impoverished children anywhere should evoke sympathy, exemplifying as it does the suffering of the innocent and defenseless. Poverty among children in a wealthy country like the United States, however, should summon shame and outrage as well. Unlike poor countries (sometimes run by leaders more […]
Forget Nukes: Now for the Hypersonic Weapons Race
( Tomdispatch.com) – Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4 miles an hour. They are among the latest entrants in an arms competition that has embroiled the United States for generations, first with the Soviet Union, today with China and […]
America’s Suicide Epidemic is Hitting Trump’s Base Hard
(Tomdispatch.com) – We hear a lot about suicide when celebrities like Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade die by their own hand. Otherwise, it seldom makes the headlines. That’s odd given the magnitude of the problem. In 2017, 47,173 Americans killed themselves. In that single year, in other words, the suicide count was nearly seven times […]
Our New Gilded Age and the Scandal of Constant Money Scandals
Then there are the dark money groups, which can receive financial contributions from any source, American or foreign.
Not at the Border: The Real Nat’l Emergency is People Dying of Opioids
Since 1999, 400,000 Americans have died from overdoses of opioids, including legally prescribed ones
Shattering Europe? The Debris of Trump’s Paris Fiasco
Even before Air Force One touched down in Paris, Trump took aim on Twitter at his host, French President Emmanuel Macron
Yemen’s Descent into Hell: A Saudi-American War of Terror
(Tomdispatch.com) – It’s the war from hell, the savage one that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, along with seven other Middle Eastern and North African states, have been waging in Yemen since March 2015, with fulsome support from the Pentagon and American weapons galore. It’s got everything. Dead children in the dozens, a […]
For 40 Million US Working Poor, Trillion-Dollar Foreign Military Adventures Don’t Bring Security
The greatest threat day-to-day threat for millions of Americans isn’t terrorism or North Korea, it’s economic insecurity
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