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Ireland Nationalizes Hospitals for Duration of Coronavirus Crisis

Eoin Higgins, March 26, 2020 The news that Ireland is nationalizing its healthcare system for the duration of the coronavirus crisis inspired observers including Rep. Ilhan Omar to call for the same approach in the U.S. as the world’s largest economy faces the disease. “For the duration of this crisis the State will take control…

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Venezuela’s Coronavirus Response Might Surprise You

  Leonardo Flores, March 24, 2020 Within a few hours of being launched, over 800 Venezuelans in the U.S. registered for an emergency flight from Miami to Caracas through a website run by the Venezuelan government. This flight, offered at no cost, was proposed by President Nicolás Maduro when he learned that 200 Venezuelans were…

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China and Cuba’s Medical Internationalism is a Shining Example of Global Solidarity

Danny Haiphong China sends medical equipment abroad, Cuba sends doctors and cutting-edge drugs, but the U.S. fails to provide its people, doctors and nurses with basic tools and protection. U.S. imperialism has loathed China and Cuba ever since the mid-20th century when both nations pursued a revolutionary path and replaced the yoke of imperialism with…

Catastrophe Capitalism: Climate Change, COVID-19, and Economic Crisis
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Catastrophe Capitalism: Climate Change, COVID-19, and Economic Crisis

John Bellamy Foster interviewed by Farooque Chowdhury [In the backdrop of the ravaging coronavirus pandemic, John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, the famous socialist magazine, discusses the pandemic in relation to the present condition of capitalism and economic crisis in the following interview conducted by Farooque Chowdhury in late-March, 2020.] Farooque Chowdhury: You have…

Why is the U.S. so Exceptionally Vulnerable to Covid-19?
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Why is the U.S. so Exceptionally Vulnerable to Covid-19?

Nicolas J.S. Davies The United States has become the new center of the global coronavirus pandemic, with over 80,000 cases, more than China or Italy. More than a thousand Americans have already died, but this is surely only the very beginning of this deadly collision between the U.S.’s exceptionally inadequate public healthcare system and a…

Wall Street Wins, Again: Bailouts in the Time of Coronavirus
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Wall Street Wins, Again: Bailouts in the Time of Coronavirus

Jake Johnson, Nomi Prins [This article has been edited by us, using additional inputs from the following articles: Alana Abramson, Philip Elliott, March 25, 2020, President Trump Signs $2.2 Trillion Coronavirus Stimulus Package Into Law, https://time.com Jack Rasmus, “US Senate’s Final Stimulus Bill: Why It Won’t Be Enough”.] President Donald Trump signed a historic $2.2…

Survive and Revolt
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Survive and Revolt

Paul Street, March 20, 2020 “I Don’t Take Responsibility at All” Millions of U.S. -Americans are no doubt aghast over the Supremely Dangerous Asshole (SDA) Donald Trump’s statement about the coronavirus crisis in the country: “Yeah, no, I don’t take responsibility at all…” None. Zero. Nada. No accountability. At all. Remember Harry Truman’s little much…

US and Cuba: Blockade and Revolution
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US and Cuba: Blockade and Revolution

W.T. Whitney, Jr.   Like the sun, the US blockade of Cuba will not disappear soon. Unlike the sun, the blockade seems mostly forgotten in US government circles and beyond.  It’s persisted basically unchanged for almost 60 years. What follows is about change.   What doesn’t change is abuse handed out to anyone in public…

Fukushima: How the Ocean became a Dumping Ground For Radioactive Waste 
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Fukushima: How the Ocean became a Dumping Ground For Radioactive Waste 

Courtesy: Deutsche Welle   Almost 1.2 million liters (320,000 gallons) of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant is to be released into the ocean. That’s on the recommendation of the government’s advisory panel some nine years after the nuclear disaster on Japan’s east coast. The contaminated water has since been used to cool…