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I have been writing about the COVID-19 pandemic with dreary regularity for some 30 months now. In that time, more than 1…
William Rivers Pitt
William Rivers Pitt (November 9, 1971 – September 26, 2022). He was an author, educator, political activist and loving parent. Among his published works are Pitt's book War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know, with Scott Ritter, was published by Profile Books in 2002 outlining false WMD arguments set against testimony and data from a weapons inspector who oversaw the destruction of Iraq's stockpiles in the 1990s. The Mass Destruction of Iraq: The Disintegration of a Nation: Why It Is Happening, and Who Is Responsible, was published by Truthout in 2014. The book was co-authored by Truthout reporter Dahr Jamail.
You don’t see the word “giddy” much in the public prints these days, but it’s out there now holding hands with the…
Make no mistake: This is a blood-red alert. Democracy in the United States — tattered and shabby though it may be —…
No significant attempt has been made to tighten federal gun laws since Sandy Hook
We cannot wish COVID away
The virus is changing every day, yet we continue to react to it with half-measures and foggy assumptions that “the worst is behind us.”
The right wing is its own giant institution in this country. And as the last several years have told us, ruthless and violent tyrants aren’t always thwarted in the end
If Republicans continue to gain momentum, we can bet that our inexcusably sorry level of pandemic preparedness will plunge us even further into the depths of abandonment
This weird passage we’ve entered is the COVID policy version of throwing the parachute out of the plane and then jumping out after it
“We should be pretty humble about making predictions about what’s next.”