I’m guessing that it will be less than a year before we start seeing even more massive social unrest and violence in the streets as a result of unemployment and hunger, probably on a scale greater than that of the Great Depression of the 1930s. This excerpt from an article in The Intercept makes…
Stories of “assault by coughing” are appearing all over America, most recently in our own Briarpatch Coop in Grass Valley: Shannon Snow was shopping at BriarPatch on July 14, and noted the store had been limiting shoppers and handing out masks at the door. She said she had to pass a couple with a…
As Republicans discuss the next stimulus among themselves, many seem determined not to “spend more taxpayer money” on supplementing unemployment insurance, which they consider a disincentive to work (as if the pandemic weren’t a sufficient disincentive). This is apparently a logical conclusion from their persistent belief in the myth of trickle down, which should…
How Covid-19 Could Upend Geopolitics Trust is the fuel that makes global institutions run. And it looks as though we’ve passed Peak Trust. By John Feffer, July 28, 2020. Originally published in TomDispatch. I don’t trust you. Don’t take it personally. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a friend or a stranger. I don’t care about your identity…
In his New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof describes the sort of world I’d always hoped we’d leave to our kids when we die. I’m sad that the coronavirus pandemic has revealed more clearly than ever that the United States is not that world, and unlikely to ever be. ” … I’d be safer…