| May 12, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyEvery morning for the last two months, I’ve checked the news in my home state of Florida with growing concern. First came the photos of unemployed people lining up to file for benefits in person, denied access to an overburdened system. Then came the news that only a...
| May 6, 2020 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyWhat’s the gimmick in Trump’s plan to “rescue” the public Postal Service? One thing we’ve learned for sure this year is that no national crisis is too awful to keep Trump and Company from exploiting it for their plutocratic political purposes. COVID-19 is a God awful...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / HealthI’ve held off saying what I have to say for a while because I don’t want to engage in “both sides-ism.” When one side is Nazis, there are not “very fine people on both sides.” There are very fine people on one side, and Nazis on the other. That said, please take my...
| May 5, 2020 | Environment / Health|HP Featured|Peace / SecurityI work as a nurse at a trauma hospital in southern Arizona. A few days ago, when I walked into work, a supervisor handed me a mask and told me I should try to wear it until it no longer seals. I held the mask and looked down at the words “one use only” printed on the...