April 16, 2020
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Covid-19 attacks the down-and-out in ultra-unequal South Africa
It’s hard to imagine a more worrying place to watch Covid-19 hit a society than Johannesburg, South Africa. This is, after all, the world’s most unequal major city, serving as economic headquarters for the most unequal country. In spite of a poverty rate (at $2.80/day) of more than 60 percent and a national unemployment rate… Continue reading
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US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as ‘Coronavirus’
“Right now Medicare is determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we… Continue reading
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Without a Country in Which to Love, a Field to Plant, a Love to Cherish or a Voice to Sing, One is Dead: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2020)
16 April 2020 — Tricontinental Gontran Guanaes Netto, O povo da terra dos papagaios (The people of the land of the parrots), 1982 Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Burkina Faso, in the Sahel region of the African continent, has been struck hard by the global pandemic; officially reported deaths from Continue reading
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The Lancet: “When this is all over the NHS England board should resign in their entirety”
The Editor in Chief of The Lancet, Richard Horton, is incandescent with fury over the way the government has failed to correctly and properly manage the COVID-19 crisis. The following paragraphs clearly demonstrate that frustration and anger and that the world’s oldest, and best known general medical journal has every intention of keeping up the… Continue reading
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‘The People Have Spoken. Bastards’: Leaked Labour Report Shows Party’s Own Senior Staff Acted To Keep Corbyn Out Of Power
In the June 2017 UK general election, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn came within a whisker of power. If just 2,227 votes had gone the other way, seven Tory knife-edge constituencies would have been won by Labour, putting Corbyn in a strong position to lead a coalition government. Continue reading
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How top Labour officials plotted to bring down Jeremy Corbyn
For the first time, extensive internal correspondence between senior party officials has been revealed, proving a years-long plot to destroy Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader who recently stepped down. Continue reading
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Life vs Profit: the real ‘war’ in times of coronavirus
The State needs people to be alive to construct the mythical social contract with them. But Capital is the actual deep state. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 