Month: September 2021

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Deaths from opioid overdoses have increased in the United States as people face psychological distress from the unmitigated pandemic. …

This is a repost of an article from the Johns Hopkins News-Letter, published on September …

Biden’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly discussed some of the world’s most urgent problems, but presented no actual solutions. …

Politicians in Congress are playing games with the debt ceiling, but it is the working people who will suffer the consequences. …

Six weeks into the school year, and many COVID safety measures are still not in place. …

The COVID-19 pandemic has further revealed the shocking racial disparities in our health and our healthcare globally. Our bodies, societies, and planet are inflamed. …

In Raj Patel’s latest book and Rupa Marya’s debut title, “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the …

The problems of the for-profit healthcare system existed before COVID. COVID demonstrated just how broken the system is. …

On Wednesday President Biden announced new plans to help the global vaccination effort, saying now is not the time for “half-measures or middle-of-the-road ambitions. We need to go big and we need to do our part.” This is an ironic statement, considering the U.S.’s repeated lack of commitment to the measures that would be needed to end this global pandemic.   …

The waves of migrants coming to the U.S. southern border is a sign that capitalism is not working for people. throughout the world. And Democratic and Republican politicians continue to carry out the same policies at the border. Both parties represent the same economic system, which benefits from racism deeply entrenched in American society and in our world, dividing working people by race and nationality while our real enemies are the bosses who exploit us all. …

The Republican-led recall election in California was a huge waste of time and money, and Californians were right to reject it – but that is not the same as an endorsement of Newsom. …

The giant Chinese real estate company Evergrande is on the verge of bankruptcy, drowning in debt, which could have huge shockwaves around the world. …

On September 14, the number of recorded deaths from COVID-19 in the United States reached 663,913, the equivalent of 1 in 500 Americans. …

Companies that make test kits can charge what they want and get fat off this health disaster, even if it means most people won’t have access to the care they need. …

Due the extreme drought, across creeks in Northern California lay rotting carcasses of the Chinook salmon, a fish that historically would rest for weeks in these waters after completing their upstream journey. …

Ten years ago, on September 17, a movement calling itself Occupy emerged on the streets …

Even in the face of an existential crisis for humanity, the Democrats are still unable to challenge the fossil fuel interests that dominate our global economy. …

Despite the hype or the doomsday predictions, let’s not believe that Biden is really trying to take on the rich to benefit us. …

This is an article written by the Partido Obrero (Workers’ Party), a Trotskyist organization in …

After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, women are not simply sitting back and watching as their rights get swept away from them. No, they are fighting back. …

Han pasado veinte años desde los ataques del 11 de septiembre de 2001, que resultaron …

The past 20 years has meant not a U.S. war against terrorists, but an endless war of U.S. terror, carried out all over the world. …

While the cultural and entertainment center of New Orleans was saved from deadly storm surges, the same cannot be said for the rest of Louisiana’s coast. …

In September, angry workers have gone on strike in several bus stations in Ile-de-France (the area surrounding Paris). …

This is the capitalist system – highest efficiency and ingenuity when the goal is invading and committing murder in other countries, but unable to provide basic necessities, housing, utilities, education, healthcare and safety for its own population. The problems that we face having nothing to do with what is and isn’t “possible.” They have everything to do with this system’s priorities.  …

If the district is going to provide every school the safety measures being demanded, it’s going to be because they were fought for. …

September 9, 2021 is the 50th anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. …

Environmental activist Jessica Reznicek was sentenced to 8 years in prison as a “terrorist” for sabotaging the Dakota Access pipeline. …

The western United States is experiencing extreme droughts while the capitalist system exacerbates climate change. …

A week before the fateful date, the conditions for back to school were still unclear. Schools are now back in session. …

Texas has passed a law banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, the most restrictive law of its kind in the United States. …

With disasters like Hurricane Ida, we can now see the outlines of our future if we allow the world to continue as it is – and it’s terrifying… …

On Labor Day, the federal unemployment benefits that have been a lifeline for tens of millions during the COVID crisis, are ending, affecting over 10 million people. …

Baltimore’s two wastewater treatment plants have been releasing large quantities of partially-treated sewage into rivers flowing into the Chesapeake Bay for about a year without detection. …

This relatively unknown piece of history of the Battle of Blair Mountain shows the heroic efforts miners took to defend themselves and challenge their exploitation. …

Over a year and a half into the pandemic, healthcare workers are stressed and understaffed because hospitals continue to cut costs. …

On August 28, activists in San Francisco protested in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan. …

With the end of the eviction moratorium, the United States government shows that it cares more about private property rights than about people’s needs. …

Schools across the United States are reopening without coherent plans of dealing with COVID-19 infections. …