A Late-Breaking Bulletin From PBS: “For Many Americans, Health Insurance is Tied to a Job”
Paul Street
As the global coronavirus public health and economic crisis of 2020 approaches the international workers’ day May 1st, let us consider 23 ways in which it is a crisis of and by capital and its class rule profits system
Two crises that pose authoritarian dangers in any nation have happened at once: a pandemic and an economic collapse
We must choose. We cannot serve humanity and capitalism at one and the same time
If it were a rational, decent, educated, and democratic society, the United States would be spending massive sums on epidemic/pandemic readiness instead of on a Pentagon System that transfers massive wealth to the owners of high-tech “defense” corporations
Do not be surprised if the Russia angle becomes a master narrative in coming weeks
Just because you are an elitist, centrist political candidate who views progressive-populism with disdain doesn’t mean you aren’t willing to pretend to be a progressive-populist in your campaign rhetoric
A serious popular uprising against the increasingly more fascistic American political order might be the best way to convince elites to let Sanders into power and achieve something decent for human beings
In the streets, in the factories, the offices, the mills, the union halls, the churches, the public assemblies, the town halls, the fields, the ballot boxes, the schools, the unions, the media, in the art world, “it will be up to the people.”
Why the timing of Trump’s criminal, high-risk assassination? The most likely explanation is that was an attempt to divert the U.S. media and populace’s attention away from his impeachment trial and to make Trump look strong as he enters the election year