All Views Articles for 2020-03-17
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Sarah Anderson How to Make the Airline Bailout Work for Workers, Not Just CEOs The government should provide direct wage subsidies to airline workers while restricting CEO pay to no more than 50 times median wages. Read more |
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Kathy Kelly Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws, A Humanitarian Message We need to jointly confront the coronavirus while constructing a humane future for the world without wasting time or resources on the continuation of brutal wars. Read more |
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Mike Pappas On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View The virus is exposing inadequacies in health systems all over the world, especially the U.S.’s abysmal health infrastructure. Health workers on the ground continue to provide care during the pandemic despite the severe lack of resources and dangers to their personal health. Read more |
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Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies 12 Ways the US Invasion of Iraq Lives On in Infamy The most serious consequences of the disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq confirm what millions of people around the world warned about 17 years ago. Read more |
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Adam Hochschild When "Fake News" Was Banned: An America Trump Might Have Loved Our country under censorship. Read more |
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Josue De Luna Navarro If You Think Coronavirus Profiteering Is Bad, Wait Till the Climate Heats Up From testing for coronavirus to treating the health impacts of climate change, universal healthcare and publicly owned medicine production are critical components for adapting to the coming crisis. Read more |
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Kevin Martin Social Distancing? Peace and Social Justice Demand More Coming Together, Not More Distancing Let's get all US troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, make peace with Iran, and address the real threats to human security like pandemics and the climate crisis. Read more |
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Josh Bivens Coronavirus Shock Will Likely Claim 3 Million Jobs By Summer Policy is needed now to curb further losses. Read more |
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Negin Owliaei The Detroit Organizers Long Demanding Water Justice As cities and states grapple with the spread of coronavirus, activists remind government why water is a human right and not a commodity. Read more |
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Edna Bonhomme Coronavirus, Colonization, and Capitalism What the global outbreak reminds us about inequality. Read more |
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Julie Hollar Who Wants a Revolution? No One Who Owns a Major Corporate Media Outlet The pundits appear willfully ignorant of their own role in shaping electability narratives. Read more |
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Robert Reich Coronavirus Outbreak Proves There Is No Public Health System in the US There is no public health system in the US, in short, because the richest nation in the world has no capacity to protect the public as a whole, apart from national defense. Read more |
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Ken Butigan Love and Nonviolence in the Time of Coronavirus The stark choice for a nonviolent future is here. Read more |
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Jeffrey Sterling I Reject Using My Unjust Conviction Against Julian Assange Given the long history of the U.S. government’s pursuit of Assange and the obvious political nature of his potential prosecution, I fear there will be nothing reasonable with regard to any sentence to be imposed. Read more |
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David McWilliams Central Banks Must Give Everyone Free Money. Right Now. Is it free? Yes. Is it one-off? Yes. Can it be done? Absolutely! To stem economic fears unleash by coronavirus, now is the time to act. Read more |