By Alec Pronk on Mar 24, 2020 10:21 am
 ‘Numbers matter, because they’re not just numbers. They’re people, whose lives and families have been turned upside down.” The world is fighting a global pandemic, and the United States is set to become one of the worst-hit countries in the world based on projections. The death toll sits at over 500 and is growing by [...]
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By Nancy Mancias on Mar 24, 2020 09:00 am
 “It is the weapons companies, private prisons, and asset management firms like BlackRock that stand to gain a profit from war and migration.” With little government support and corporate accountability, humanitarian aid workers are scrambling to address the refugee crisis in the wake of the global pandemic, COVID-19 (coronavirus). The outbreak of the coronavirus comes [...]
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By Vijay Prashad and Subin Dennis on Mar 24, 2020 07:00 am
 K.K. Shailaja is the health minister in the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala, the state in the southwest of India that has a population of 35 million people. On January 25, 2020, she convened a high-level meeting to discuss the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China. What had particularly worried her is that there [...]
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By April Short on Mar 24, 2020 05:00 am
 The conditions of this virus have communities rehashing togetherness, and relearning what remains when our money-based lifestyles slow down. In the midst of an international viral outbreak that has people worldwide physically distancing out of social solidarity, so much about our cultural norms and lifestyle practices is off the table. Many are out of work [...]
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By Guest Post on Mar 23, 2020 02:00 pm
 A man worth over $100 billion, who makes, on average, $230,000 per minute calling on the public to help his own impoverished employees was not met well by many. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s first centibillionaire, a man who vies with Bill Gates for the title of the planet’s [...]
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By Jack Xiong on Mar 23, 2020 01:39 pm
 “It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from, this pandemic will affect us all. And for the world’s most vulnerable, the worst may be yet to come.” Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation has donated $5 million to various organizations assisting with coronavirus relief efforts. The Clara Lionel Foundation announced the donation in a statement [...]
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By Vijay Prashad and Manuel Bertoldi on Mar 23, 2020 12:00 pm
 “A consequence of the failure of the austerity politics is that ideas that had been unthinkable just a few months ago—such as nationalization of hospitals and provision of substantial income support to unemployed workers—is on the agenda. We hope that this conversation develops into a popular global movement for a total reconstruction of the system.” [...]
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By Daniel Davis on Mar 23, 2020 09:00 am
 “Central to Democrats’ concerns with the legislation was a $425 billion ‘slush fund’ for the Federal Reserve, which it could use to bailout businesses while also withholding the names of those companies for up to six months.” Senators efforts failed Sunday to secure emergency funding for the Covid-19 pandemic. Democrats in the Senate voted against a [...]
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By Alec Pronk on Mar 23, 2020 08:00 am
 “A coronavirus outbreak in our overcrowded, poorly maintained jails and prison facilities would be devastating, swift, and deadly.” In New York City, 21 inmates and 17 employees at Rikers Island and surrounding facilities have tested positive for coronavirus as of this weekend. The likely number of those infected is likely much higher due to a [...]
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By Yasmeen Rasidi on Mar 23, 2020 05:00 am
 Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that accurate news pieces take six times longer to reach 1,500 Twitter users than misleading information. The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has sparked global panic as the new strain of the disease has killed more than 8,000 globally. However, widespread misinformation shared on social media platforms has [...]
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