Henry Giroux: Why it is dangerous to use the language of war about COVID-19
"For Trump, saving the economy is more important than saving lives. As 'warriors' the American public is being told to support this new battlefield strategy..."
Chris Hedges on Biden vs. Trump, Bernie Sanders, Corporate Media, Assange & State of the Left
A fixed election system, mainstream corporate media, and more.
Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump’s Fascist Momentum
"Fascist politics exchanges reality for the pronouncements of a single individual, or perhaps a political party. Regular and repeated obvious lying is part of the process by which fascist politics destroys the information space."
Take Action and Statement: U.S. organizations react to global military spending report
"The devastating impact of this #1.917 trillion in military spending has become painfully clear in the United States as we struggle to keep pace with the healthcare needs created by the COVID-19 pandemic."
Stimson Center/SIPRI: Trends in Global Arms Transfers and Military Spending (Video)
(Video Recording of Webinar) "The discussion highlights SIPRI’s data on international arms transfers and the recently released analysis of world military expenditure and analyses potential future dynamics arising from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)."
Global military expenditure sees largest annual increase in a decade—says SIPRI—reaching $1917 billion in 2019
"United States drives global growth in military spending"
Climate Crisis, the Environment and U.S. Militarism: Making the Connections
The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported.
“Internationalism or Extinction”: Noam Chomsky talks about COVID-19 and his new book
Can we stop the race to the abyss?
Is American Exceptionalism Shaping Our Scientific Response to the Coronavirus?
"My view, of course, is that once you make science American it’s doomed. It needs to be human to have a chance. American exceptionalism is not just part of basing pandemic predictions on computer models rather than on the other 96% of humanity."
Henry Giroux: The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism
"Neoliberal capitalism is the underlying pandemic feeding the current global shortage of hospitals, medical supplies, beds and robust social welfare provisions, and increasingly an indifference to human life. The social contract has been all but eliminated while notions of the public good, social obligations and democratic forms of solidarity are under attack."
Noam Chomsky: The Rich Aren’t Waiting To Build a New World. Why Are We?
How corporations are profiting from the COVID-19 and how the Trump administration made it possible.
Democracy Now! COVID-19 Kills Blacks Disproportionately and Black Sacrifice Zones
“Exposing U.S. Racism in a Stark New Way”: COVID-19 Kills Disproportionate Number of Black America; COVID-19 Sacrifice Zones: Coronavirus Devastates Black Communities Historically Denied Healthcare