Sunday, June 14, 2020

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Study Finds Trump Tax Cuts Failed to Do Anything But Give Rich People Money

Fungus on Leather Goods in Malaysian Mall Claimed to Be From India

New Ebola Cases Found in Congo: The Democratic Republic of Congo’s health ministry reported a fresh cluster of Ebola infections in the country’s northwest

Economic Update: Cornel West on Pandemic Capitalism

Trump & GOP Are Ignoring Economic Catastrophe

Tipping Point: Thomas Piketty’s new history of global inequality.

Vaccinations Fall to Alarming Rates, C.D.C. Study Shows

How the Fed Bailed Out the Investor Class Without Spending a Cent: Just announcing $4.5 trillion in future spending to support securities markets was enough to keep owners of capital protected from the downsides of the coronavirus.

Workers Need Rights

What's the Difference Between Corporate CEOs and Pigs?  For starters, pigs are remarkably intelligent animals with a sense of social responsibility to the common good of the group.

Yes, We Can do Better Than Capitalism: By democratizing our workplaces, we can supplant the dominant economic system which cannot escape its intrinsic exploitation of labor

California’s Unemployment Problem

After the May 1 National Rent Strike

AV: The Case for National Health Insurance

See No Evil

Survival Skills Rise From a Wisconsin Girl's Roots

Laid-Off Workers Lost Health Coverage: Where’s Pelosi?

Save America, Throw the Landlords Under the Bus

Tesla Should Buy Ford

Capitalism Hits Home: What Is Essential: Profit or Life Itself? - Part 1

Full list of MPs who voted to lower our food standards during the Covid pandemic: Fears as Government promises for post-Brexit food and environmental standards removed from Agriculture Bill.

We Really Need to Tax the Rich: In California, they’re making it happen.

America Never Valued Care Workers. Then a Pandemic Hit.  Now everyone knows teachers, child care providers, and health aides are essential workers. Will that finally get them the pay and protections they deserve?

5 Ways to Rebuild Labor and Transform America: The economic fallout from Covid-19 has created an opening for unions to lead a mass movement.

10 Signs That Prove Big Pharma Could Care Less About Your Health: Drug companies are lobbying to protect their right to profit from any future Covid-19 vaccine.

The OxyContin Clan: The $14 Billion Newcomer to Forbes 2015 List of Richest U.S. Families

From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people have died from a drug overdose.  Opioids Represent 68% of All Overdose Deaths

NIH funding contributed to 210 approved drugs in recent years, study says

Leading lobbying industries in the U.S. 2019: In 2019, the pharmaceuticals and health products industry in the United States spent the most on lobbying efforts, totaling to about 295.17 million U.S. dollars.

4 pharma companies saved $7 billion from GOP tax law

Former Federal Prosecutor: If Trump Refuses to Leave Office “They Will Drag His Flabby Butt Out of There in Handcuffs”

Belabored Stories: What If Nurses Ran the Healthcare System? “We take in a lot and don’t talk about it,” a nurse in Chicago said. But healthcare workers are talking now—not just about how to save their patients, but about rebuilding the system from the bottom up.

Life on the Edge: The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into uncharted territory, with challenges that we have never seen before, but also fresh opportunities.

Edge of Sports: A Dangerous Game.  It should be the status of the virus, and not the wishes of humans, that sets the dates for reopening the sports world. But the people in charge do not seem to be listening.

Rescue the Post Office: Hijacking the Postal Service, bankrupting it, and then privatizing its profitable functions has become, for Trump, a top priority.

More Money, No Problem: Stephanie Kelton’s book “The Deficit Myth” debunks the belief that the national debt is a problem and that it is always a good thing to try to pay it off.

Trump’s War on the Hungry: The Trump administration has waged war on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, commonly called food stamps.

Pandemic Ramps Up Risks for the Homeless: Situation becomes more precarious as COVID-19 shuts down access to shelters.

Wolff Responds: US Economy in Chaos

Teachers' Union Boss Says DeVos Is 'One of the Most Dangerous People' in Trump Cabinet

AskProfWolff: Great Depression & The New Deal

Who's Really Looting America? with Robert Reich

143 - The ABCs of Capitalism & Strategy for Socialism's Future ft. Vivek Chibber

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Pandemic, Protests and Economic Disaster

Discussion of capitalism is not off the table any longer. Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy launches with the aim of doing everything it can to promote and deepen this conversation. Our focus is, as our title suggests, to develop a theory and strategy with capitalism as its target — both in the North and in the Global South. It is an ambitious agenda, but this is a time for thinking big.

Capitalism and the State with Vivek Chibber (Stay At Home #40)

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