Tag: coronavirus
6.6 Million People Filed For Unemployment Last Week
The $2.2 trillion stimulus did nothing to help working people. Even before the new data was released, writer Brendan O’Connor said tenants were facing eviction…
COVID-19 Lays Bare Neoliberalism’s Failure In Sudan
The failure of neoliberalism in addressing the coronavirus crisis is not limited to Sudan. It is a global failure. Subscribe to our page and support…
What Happened To Cuba-US Relations Under Trump?
Eddie Conway talks to Dr. Ken Morgan from Baltimore and Professor Luis Montero-Cabrera about Cuba’s relief efforts and doctors, the cost of hostile relations with…
Family Of Imprisoned New Yorkers Call On Governor For Clemency
Family members of inmates inside New York prisons and advocates host a virtual press conference with demands, including suspension of required office visits for parole…
Boeing Gets Up To $17 Billion In Loans From Coronavirus Stimulus
Economist Dean Baker explains how the $2.2 trillion stimulus quietly provides up to $17 billion in loans for Boeing with almost no strings attached. Director/Video…
Turkey Indicts 20 Saudis For Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder Amidst COVID-19 Crisis
Turkey prepared the charges while internally grappling with the coronavirus, accusing Saudi Arabia of hiding the spread of COVID-19 after finding new cases in returning…
Ireland Vows To Treat All COVID-19 Patients For Free
The Irish government nationalized its hospitals, imposed a rent freeze, and authorized state-funded childcare, promising free treatment for patients with COVID-19. Director/Video Editor: Bababtunde Ogunfolaju…
Spain Nationalized Private Clinics To Fight COVID-19—What Happens After The Pandemic?
Spain faced the second worst infection rate in Europe, and took control of the country’s private health care companies to improve its response. What does…
1.7 Million Jobs In Arab Region At Risk From Coronavirus
A UN brief warns about economic collapse, expecting a $42 billion decline in GDP and trillions of dollars lost to the private sector in an…
COVID-19 Pandemic Illuminates Anti-Chinese Racism And Xenophobia
Eddie Conway talks with professor Dylan Rodriguez about how COVID-19 has exposed anti-Chinese sentiment, how it’s inseparable from anti-immigrant, anti-Black, and colonial violence, and how…
Insurance Companies Already Know How They’ll Profit From COVID-19
40 million people may lose their jobs in the coronavirus crisis. Former Cigna VP Wendell Potter says tying health insurance to employment has made the…
Who Would Really Be Sacrificed To Save The Economy From COVID-19?
Whose families do the high priests of capitalism really intend to sacrifice to their god of money? Subscribe to our page and support our work…
How The Coronavirus Pandemic Can Lead To Deglobalization
The rapid, extensive spread of COVID-19 is partly a crisis of globalization. The pandemic gives us an opportunity to rethink our global economic system in…
What’s Being Done To Prevent Deaths in Detention Centers, Prisons?
Eddie Conway talks to ACLU Maryland attorney Sonia Kumar, Never Again Action organizer Hallie Berkson-Gold, and ICE Free New Jersey activist Jorge Torres. Director/Video Editor:…
