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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.

A Progressive Victory over the Coronavirus

John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus
South Korea, having beaten back the coronavirus, is now poised to show the world how to move forward to save lives, democracy, and the planet.

Friday Nite Videos | May 1, 2020

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Kushner and Trump Call Coronavirus Response 'Success Story' and 'Great Job.' Sitting in Limbo | John Cruz. The Innocence Files | Netflix. Remember When Trump Said Coronavirus Would Disappear in April? How Voting by Mail Could Save the US Election.

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

Trump’s Cruel Cuts Deepen Yemen’s Misery. Now Comes the Virus

Ali Al Mujahed The New York Times
Families in a Yemeni camp for displaced people. The five-year civil war between Houthi rebels and pro-government troops backed by a US-supported Saudi-led military coalition has devastated Yemen. Some 24 million Yemenis rely on humanitarian aid to survive, aid President Trump has now suspended.
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