Covid-19
Blaming the victims
Have any union members been seen at the recent Tea Party rallies at the state capitols? Working and poor people need jobs and income. But they’re not too keen on rolling back the absolutely necessary […]
Author: Stephen Millies
Covid-19
Coronavirus central in Queens, N.Y.
As of April 19, some 8,798 people in five adjoining zip codes in the Queens borough of New York City have the coronavirus. About 350,000 people live there. One out of 40 has the virus. […]
Covid-19
Profits first, patients last
Two thousand people a day are dying from the coronavirus in the United States. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has begged retired doctors and nurses to return to work. All hands on deck to fight […]
Covid-19
Capitalism & racism + Covid-19 = murder
April 11 — The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating New York City. Eighty refrigerator trucks are serving as mobile morgues to store the bodies.As of April 10, 92,384 people have been infected. Inmates in the Rikers […]
Covid-19
The pandemic isn’t equal: Coronavirus hits the poor at most dangerous rate
The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating New York City. Forty-five refrigerator trucks are serving as mobile morgues to store the bodies. As of April 3, 51,810 people have been infected. Inmates in the Rikers Island prison […]
Venezuela
World’s biggest drug pusher indicts Venezuela
On March 26, Trump’s attorney general, William Barr, said that Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro Moros, was “flooding” the United States with cocaine. Three days later, President Trump claimed that health care workers risking their lives […]
Covid-19
Profits more precious than life
We hold this truth to be self-evident: that Donald Trump doesn’t give a damn about the millions of workers who’ve lost their jobs because of the coronavirus shutdown. So why does Trump want to wind […]
Covid-19
Trump spurs racist attacks on Asian Americans
Never forget Vincent Chin “It’s not fair.” Those were the last words of Vincent Chin outside a McDonald’s in Highland Park, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. The 27-year-old was beaten to death by two white […]
Covid-19
Hospital closings = death
Will hospitals be able to cope with all the expected patients during the Covid-19 pandemic? New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo doesn’t think so. He told NBC’s Today Show on March 19 that “the health care […]
Labor and strikes
‘Neutron Jack’ the job killer
Few tears were shed in Schenectady, N.Y., when former General Electric CEO Jack Welch croaked on March 1. Why should there have been? Welch destroyed 22,000 jobs in GE’s hometown in the 1980s. Welch got […]