US society
6% of Confirmed Coronavirus-19 Cases End in Death
By Eric Zuesse
June 6, 2020
As of the end of the day on May 28th (start of May 29th), there had been a global...
The Murder of George Floyd Is Normal in an Abnormal Society
By Vijay Prashad
June 3, 2020
There is no need to wonder why George Floyd (age 46) was murdered in broad daylight in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on...
It’s a Class War Now Too
By Joshua Frank
June 1, 2020
Photo: Ronnie Mendoza
The scene along Melrose Avenue, one of L.A’s most renowned shopping districts, is now one of vengeance. Shards...
Coronavirus calls US’ ‘world’s richest country’ bluff: Will it cling to...
by Helen Buyniski
16 Mar, 2020
The coronavirus containment measures the US has (belatedly, reluctantly) taken are revealing enormous fissures in its first-world facade, from legions...
Death toll rises to 71, more than 1,000 missing from devastating...
By Evan Blake
17 November 2018
The ongoing wildfires in California, including the most deadly and destructive in the state’s history, are a horrific exposure...
Shocked, Burnt and Bruised: the Plight of Workers at Tesla’s Plants
“I hear coworkers quietly say that they are hurting but they are too afraid to report it for fear of being labeled as a...
The Coming Collapse
By Chris Hedges
May 20, 2018
The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is...
The Deadly Rule of the Oligarchs
By Chris Hedges
Feb 11, 2018
Oligarchic rule, as Aristotle pointed out, is a deviant form of government. Oligarchs care nothing for competency, intelligence, honesty, rationality,...
America’s Painful Self-delusion
By Allen Marshall
December 14, 2017
America is the only nation brought forth by a set of beliefs, and those beliefs, captured so eloquently in...
The Opioid Epidemic in America – Killing One Million People
The Triumph of Capital (Creating a Domestic ‘Shithole’)
By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya
The link between capitalism and drugs reaches back to the middle...