Almost every media outlet in the United States carried the news: 3.28 million claims for unemployment insurance (UI) were made the week ending March 21. This figure is the highest since the Department of Labor began reporting such figures in 1967. The 281,000 claims for UI the previous week were . . .
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Transcribed from a March 27, 2020, audio recording on prisonradio.org. The great African writer, Chinua Achebe, I believe, wrote a novel about the ravages of colonialism, which bore the title “Things Fall Apart.” He borrowed the title from the famed Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, who wrote “Things fall apart, . . .
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As jobs are lost during the COVID-19 crisis, an overwhelming majority of workers and oppressed people in the U.S. have been worrying about paying bills and feeding their families. At the same time, a major U.S. pharmaceutical company is poised to turn this suffering into a cash cow to boost . . .
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