It took 40 years and a pandemic to stir up a worker revolution that’s about to hit corporate America September 1945, a little-remembered frenzy erupted in the United States. Japan had surrendered, ending World War II, but American meat packers, steelworkers, telephone installers, telegraph operators, and auto assemblers had something different from partying in mind.Continue reading “America Is About to Witness the Biggest Labor Movement It’s Seen in Decades”
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Why every U.S. city and county should brace for severe outbreaks, a possible second wave, and even a resurgence of coronavirus later this year and next
While the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the United States so far have occurred in a relative handful of large cities and other locales, experts say the steep rise in cases — the curve — will come to communities large and small across the country in coming days and weeks. Already some rural counties are seeing outbreaks.Continue reading “Why every U.S. city and county should brace for severe outbreaks, a possible second wave, and even a resurgence of coronavirus later this year and next”
The real question now appears to be how many lives is the economy worth?
What is visible to all, is that only those countries with an operating government can manage and overcome a crisis like a world pandemic, whether they are democracies or authoritarian is academic, at this point. To some degree or other, both lacked imagination, in that they were too busy, pursuing profit and exploiting land andContinue reading “The real question now appears to be how many lives is the economy worth?”
IS THERE ENOUGH LEADERSHIP TO OVERCOME THE THE LONG-INFLICTED DAMAGES AND TO PULL PEOPLE TOGETHER AND TO REESTABLISH COMMUNITY?
Now assaulting a fragmenting Western World comes a pandemic whose consequences cannot be known. For once we are all concerned about the same thing. Our life. But our real lives really on the very thing we are destroying on a daily bases the planet on which we all live. The coronavirus pandemic is not justContinue reading “IS THERE ENOUGH LEADERSHIP TO OVERCOME THE THE LONG-INFLICTED DAMAGES AND TO PULL PEOPLE TOGETHER AND TO REESTABLISH COMMUNITY?”
How Capitalism is Adding Disaster to Catastrophe — in the Middle of a Pandemic
Just how badly has American capitalism failed? Consider the following. The White House backed out of a deal to manufacture ventilators because the price tag was too high. Go ahead and guess. Ready? It was…one billion dollars. Sound like a lot? Too much? For ventilators for…the entire country…in the middle of a pandemic…that’s already spiralingContinue reading “How Capitalism is Adding Disaster to Catastrophe — in the Middle of a Pandemic”
THERE IS ONE BIG LESSON FROM THE CORONA-VIRUS THAT STICKS OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB
That is that the world is unable to react quickly enough to a disaster and a plaster here or there will not work. Disaster after Disaster, we see the same thing. You would think by now we watch Governments scrambling to obtain supplies and the United Nations begging for Funds that we would have learnedContinue reading “THERE IS ONE BIG LESSON FROM THE CORONA-VIRUS THAT STICKS OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB”
The same globalization and mass communication that transform the world may just as easily doom it if we’re not careful, and perhaps even if we are
I suppose it is fair to say that when it comes to biological factors that tear thought entire species, humans can’t take all the credit. History has shown that a pandemic now and then can be a good thing, at least for the survivors. THE CURRENT CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK IN PROGRESS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO ALTER HOW SOCIETIESContinue reading “The same globalization and mass communication that transform the world may just as easily doom it if we’re not careful, and perhaps even if we are”
THE CORONA VIRUS IS SHINING A LIGHT ON WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD AND IT IS SPREADING FAST
AS IF WE DID NOT KNOW it is posing that fundamental profound question once more. Are we going to care of the Earth so it can care for us? It is impossible to say which way the disease will go however there is no doubt that it is creating the biggest restriction of civil libertiesContinue reading “THE CORONA VIRUS IS SHINING A LIGHT ON WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD AND IT IS SPREADING FAST”
As the Coronavirus spreads around the globe, governments and medical personnel are scrambling to figure out what to do. This unprecedented disaster is creating a lot of unrest on Wall Street, causing some serious losses in the stock market
The world is facing the biggest catastrophe it has faced since World War II. As the Coronavirus spreads around the globe, governments and medical personnel are scrambling to figure out what to do. This unprecedented disaster is creating a lot of unrest on Wall Street, causing some serious losses in the stock market. On topContinue reading “As the Coronavirus spreads around the globe, governments and medical personnel are scrambling to figure out what to do. This unprecedented disaster is creating a lot of unrest on Wall Street, causing some serious losses in the stock market”
WHAT IS THE VALUE OF A NATION IF WHEN NATURE SURGES BACK IT FALLS APART?
NO MATTER HOW MUCH THE TRUTH IS HIDDEN BEHIND LIES IT EVENTUALLY BURST THROUGH AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THAT TRUTH WILL REVILE THE FELICE OF CAPITALISM SYSTEMS WHICH ARE THE CURRENT MARAIDIME OF OUR TIMES.… The eco of our origins is being heard in as much that we can’t continue living in abstract economic systemsContinue reading “WHAT IS THE VALUE OF A NATION IF WHEN NATURE SURGES BACK IT FALLS APART?”
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