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Solidarity in the Age of Coronavirus: What the Arabs Must Do
Photograph Source: Kamyar Adl – CC BY 2.0 While the Coronavirus continues to ravage almost every nation on earth, Arab countries remain unable, or unwilling, to formulate a collective strategy to help...
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Cuban Medical Science in the Service of Humanity
Photograph Source: Marco Zanferrari – CC BY-SA 2.0 By 21 March, Cuba had sent healthcare professionals to 37 countries to collaborate in combating the pandemic. Italy received 53 Cuban medics who had...
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The Last Humans…Or Why ‘Revolutionaries’ Should Drop their Millenarianism and...
Photograph Source: Kecko – CC BY 2.0 There are two types of ‘human being’ on the planet, but only one type can truly call itself human. The ‘human beings’ who cannot truly call themselves human include...
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Biden? Seriously?
Photograph Source: Matt Johnson – CC BY 2.0 Donald Trump is a paradoxical creature. On the one hand, he resembles nothing so much as a dumbass teenage boy, and, on the other, a barfly, long in the...
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Orange King COVID
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Listen to Paul Street on this week’s edition of CounterPunch Radio. One of the reasons to have joined Refuse Fascism and other activists in the streets demanding the...
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Roaming Charges: The Condition Our Condition Is In
Still from Masque of the Red Death (Dir. Roger Corman, 1964). + I was sick for much of February. Really sick. Fever. Sore throat. Aching joints. A persistent cough that was, as they say about the heat...
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Capitalism, the State Religion
Photograph Source: su-ch – CC BY 2.0 With Old Testament locusts and plagues re-emerging for the late capitalist era, one could be forgiven for imagining that an avenging God has been awakened. As the...
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Wet Markets and Wild Longings
Photograph Source: Seniju – CC BY 2.0 It’s early April ― peak lockdown in the United States ― and Anthony Fauci is chastising China over wet markets. “It just boggles my mind,” Dr. Fauci said, “when we...
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Memoir: A Liberation Theology Stations of the Cross in Northeast Brazil
Padre Andreas, a Jesuit priest from Spain, came on a radical mission to the impoverished hillside shantytown of Alto do Cruzeiro in the municipio of Timbauba, a sugarcane market town in Pernambuco...
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The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel: Coronavirus and the British Establishment
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair I do not wish Boris Johnson to die. I only wish him to suffer. As paradoxical as it might sound, I don’t mean this in a sadistic way. Suffering is part of the human...
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The Week We Should Not Forget for Our Own Sake
Photograph Source: Henry Ngo – CC BY 2.0 Much happened this week and we can’t afford to ignore any of it. The events of the last seven days provide significant opportunities for civic action. 1. Bernie...
View ArticleWisconsin’s Unconscionable Sham
Wisconsin might have just decided the November election for Trump at the expense of its own citizens’ lives. As of April 7, the state’s primary election day, there were 2,511 confirmed cases of...
View ArticleThank You, Bernie; Screw You, New York Times
It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical dreams and then dance on them. And that’s just what the New York Times did the day after Bernie Sanders bowed out of the Democratic race for...
View ArticleThe Demise of Bernie Sanders
[Author’s note: This article was written three weeks before Bernie Sanders’ April 7 withdrawal from the Democratic Party primary race. I see no reason to change a word.] Bernie Sanders, face to face on...
View ArticleCOVID-Masks for Halloween?
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity. . . . – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human All Too Human It caused unwitting confusion. The trump had been focused on Easter for several...
View ArticleJulian Assange: One Year in Belmarsh
It should not be a matter of distinction, but Julian Assange is a figure who is becoming the apotheosis of political imprisonment. This seems laughable to those convinced he is an agent without...
View ArticleMoratoriums Won’t Save Us from the COVID-19 Depression
At least 16 million Americans have lost their jobs to the shutdown ordered to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. That staggering number does not include those who were unable to file due to...
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Joe Biden is Your Enemy
There’s a video of Lawrence O’Donnell, spokesperson for MSNBC, saying in 2020 what he’s paid to say, namely that electing a candidate with a platform you approve of is somehow in conflict with electing...
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UN Ceasefire Defines War As a Non-Essential Activity
At least 70 countries have signed on to the March 23 call by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for a worldwide ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic. Like non-essential business and spectator...
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