Issue: 811
Mar 26, 2020
Color of Law
This Pandemic Could be an Opportunity for Change in the US
Executive Editor
there is opportunity in crisis. As it exposes the nation's flaws, weaknesses and moral blind spots like never before, the coronavirus pandemic can make Americans of all walks of life realise that neoliberal policies that value profit over human life are a threat to national security. This realisation can in turn pressure the US leadership to implement the necessary reforms to ensure all Americans have social security, comprehensive labour rights and access to adequate healthcare.
The COVID-19 pandemic is stretching national health systems to their limit across the world. In some countries that have been particularly affected by the pandemic, such…
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Commentary
Living Through this Moment Together
Editorial Board
“Coronavirus is a socially transmitted disease, and we all have a social contract to stop it. What binds us is a microbe – but it also has the power to separate us. We’re a very small community, whether we acknowledge it or not, and this proves it. The time to act like a community is now.”
In a responsible response to the coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19 church and worship services across the globe are canceled. Traditional Bible study has gone…
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Commentary
Corona Confusion and March Madness
Editorial Board
The spread of the coronavirus reveals weaknesses in the armor of the country, some describe as "the greatest country" in the world. The coronavirus has been declared a pandemic, a world emergency. The United States is woefully unprepared to manage this emergency. The focus of this administration has been to slash the public sector and provide tax breaks for the wealthy. Public health (or any other kind) has not been a priority for this administration. Managing a world pandemic is beyond the capacity of the private sector.
Basketball fans were looking forward to March Madness, those weeks when the best college teams face off against each other. Madness is replete this March, but…
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Commentary
The Plague: An Allegory
Editorial Board
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
The Plague: An Allegory “I can almost hear them saying: ‘Our dear departed...’ And then they’ll go off and have a good snack.” The Plague by…
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Commentary
Three of Four Countries at War With Coronavirus are Hobbled by U.S. Acts of Economic War – Solidarity America
Columnist
Why hasn't the U.S. discussed using the drug developed by Cuba and China? Likely, it's because U.S. pharmaceutical companies would not hold the patent, if one is possible, because it would be asking a small, communist-controlled nation for help, and because the current occupant of the White House is not competent to come up with new ideas about fighting the virus (or anything else), and because everything Trump does he does with an eye toward either reelection or making a profit somewhere, somehow.
Despite the economic war by the U.S. against Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran (not to mention other countries), the three nations are doing the best they can…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Elect a Clown – You Get a Circus
Columnist
can it be this diabolical dingleberry want’s chaos and mayhem to rule the land? Under Trump’s little itty bitty fat thumb he can do whatever in the hell he wants - what Bill Barr is floating right now on capitol hill, a suspension of the Bill of Rights in essence, the imposing of martial law under the guise of combating the virus, call off the elections
Who’s to blame for Donald Trump being at-the-helm during these unparalleled times you and I are enduring at this very moment? ‘White America,” not America per-say…
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Commentary
Will Biden Beat Biden in 2020?
Columnist
It appears that the Biden campaign is relying on Trump’s dismal political handling of the coronavirus catastrophe to weaken his reelection status. That is a mistake. His advisors should remember that Hillary held out the same false hopes that the Access Hollywood tapes that showed Trump at his misogynistic best one month before the 2016 election would cinch her victory.
Let’s be clear in our understanding that Joe Biden is leading this presidential race because of circumstances and individuals beyond his control. He is a major…
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