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May 2, 2020

COVID-19, Capitalism, and Socialism

Victor Wallis Political Animal Magazine

Coronoavirus reveals the divide between the socialist principal of using health care to meet human needs and the capitalist practice of treating health care as a commodity.

May 2, 2020

A More Progressive Society or a More Dystopian One?

John Cassidy The New Yorker

Concentrations of economic power have to be confronted. Workers’ rights and bargaining power have to be extended.

May 2, 2020

No Good Options for Migrant Workers in Gulf COVID-19 Lockdown

Andrea Wright Middle East Research and Information Project

Infection in the Gulf is growing rapidly. On April 14, 2020, the Gulf States collectively reported 16,613 cases of COVID-19. By April 29, the Gulf States have 50,572 cases.

May 1, 2020

Goliath

Judith Mahoney Pasternak Mondoweiss

The Paris-based poet Judith Mahoney Pasternak puts the story of David & Goliath into a contemporary un-Biblical perspective.

May 1, 2020

Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump's Fascist Momentum

Norman Solomon Common Dreams

Some say preventing the re-election of Trump isn't important. That amounts to ignoring political reality, an evasion with potentially vast consequences.

May 1, 2020

Stopping Deforestation Can Prevent Pandemics

The Editors of Scientific American Scientific American

Stopping deforestation will tamp down the spread of a long list of vicious diseases that have come from rain forest habitats—Zika, Nipah, malaria, cholera and HIV among them

May 1, 2020

Across Class Lines: Amazon Tech Workers Join Warehouse Workers in Protests

Bryce Covert The American Prospect

Home-office climate activists and warehouse employees across the nation find common cause mobilizing against Amazon’s policies

How Voting by Mail Could Save the US Election

May 1, 2020

Coronavirus threatens the US election. Voting by mail could save it.

Remember When Trump Said Coronavirus Would Disappear in April?

May 1, 2020

Any big predictions for May?

Through the lens of The Evidence, The Witness and The Prosecution, The Innocence Files shines a powerful light on the untold personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the nonprofit organization the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have uncovered and worked tirelessly to overturn. Full review here.