Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Northeastern England fell to the Vikings in 865, and they held it for several decades. They not only had what […]
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Israel’s Obligation vis-a-vis West Bank and Gaza in Face of Coronavirus Pandemic: Global Human Rights Organizations
( Human Rights Watch) – With over 250 identified COVID-19 Palestinian patients in the West Bank and potentially dozens in the Gaza Strip we, the […]
Trump, Eyeing Reelection, Wants to Put us Back to Work too Soon: Our Health vs. Whose Economy?
President Trump, who hoped to run for re-election on a booming economy, is being frustrated by a tiny virus. As usual he lashes out with […]
Will the Pandemic Kill Big Oil and OPEC even before the Electric Car?
By Hani Habeeb | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – Giant oil tankers have changed into floating warehouses for oil following the sharp drop […]
How the Plague Influenced Shakespeare
By Paul Yachnin | – Shakespeare lived his life in plague-time. He was born in April 1564, a few months before an outbreak of bubonic […]
African-Americans, Victimized by U.S. Racism and Classism, are now preyed on by Coronavirus
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The coronavirus appears to be striking African-Americans at far higher rates than white Americans, write Reis Thebault, Andrew Ba Tran […]
When you Work for Corporations you Don’t Care about People: How Wisconsin GOP Forced in-person Voting in the Midst of a Pandemic to Suppress Urban Dem Vote
By Jessica Corbett, staff writer | – (Commondreams.org) – As footage of Wisconsin’s crowded polling stations flooded the internet Tuesday, public health officials and civil […]
Coronavirus and Medicare for All: Our Crisis comes from Gov’t Putting Profit over Public Health
Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Big business dominates our government and public health takes a back seat to the need for private profit. […]
Palestinians are Helpless before Coronavirus, Hung out to Dry again by World Community
( Middle East Monitor ) – As Gaza tries to impede the spread of coronavirus, humanitarian aid, albeit necessary, is yet another reminder of how […]
While Rome Burns: With 2020 Election in Doubt Trump Gets what he’s always Wanted
(Tomdispatch.com) – Last month, Donald Trump retweeted a doctored photo of himself playing the fiddle that was labeled “My next piece is called: nothing can […]