Please help our comrade Joe Hopkins

Our comrade Joe Hopkins, in prison in Florida and gravely sick with cirrhosis of the liver, is not getting the care he needs. Please help by signing an online petition.

Captives of Coca-Cola

Why the people of San Cristobal in Mexico’s Chiapas State drink so much Coca-Cola and what it does to them.

Beware — cell phones!

Cell phones are everywhere. Almost everyone has one. But there is mounting scientific evidence of the harm their radiation does to human health, especially to the health of children.

Covid-19: the lab-leak hypothesis

Did the coronavirus leap from bat to man at a wildlife market or inside a scientific laboratory? We may never know for sure, but the lab-leak hypothesis is plausible. What are the implications?

Why the premature reopening of the US economy?

Why is Trump reopening the US economy — and forcing Mexico to reopen its economy too — when the pandemic is still on the rise?

Nurses refuse to work unprotected

Ten nurses have been suspended at Providence St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California for refusing to work without the protection of N95 respirator masks. Are they really in short supply?

Markets are trash

The Covid-19 pandemic exposes the cruel and absurd results of relying on markets for the satisfaction of human needs. In Las Vegas homeless men sleep on a parking lot on a street full of empty hotels.

A cure for Covid-19: a profit-making strategy

Interim results of trials of the drug Remdesivir on Covid-19 patients are very encouraging. But could the drug be reaching those who desperately need it more quickly?

Why the shortage of medical supplies?

Why are medical supplies in such short supply? This study explains the main reasons and presents three case studies: respiratory face masks, ventilators, and vaccines.

The virus and the money-tree

A Marxian analysis of the pandemic, its origin, and its economic impact. Reposted from the magazine Internationalist Perspective.

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