Opinion
What is the Defense Production Act and why should Trump use it?
April 3, 2020When the government requires big business to manufacture something, it is seen by the owner class as too much government, and it smells like socialism.
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Trump “has blood on his hands,” says Pulitzer-winning Boston Globe
April 2, 2020The editorial board cites the president for a “colossal failure of leadership” and says, “Come November there must be a reckoning for the lives lost.”
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A rosy phantasmagorical (and probably counterfactual) report from Israel’s future
April 1, 2020A possible future not yet written.
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Cuba, Venezuela, Iran: U.S. imperialism wants to let them die
April 1, 2020U.S. decision-making on the epidemic reveals an easy tolerance of people dying in the one case and foreknowledge of that outcome in the other.
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Do they really want to kill us?
March 31, 2020If Thomas Malthus felt the answers to overpopulation were war and disease, we are not very far from embracing those solutions ourselves.
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