Coronavirus Will Spread Faster Because We Lack Universal Health Care
A critical factor accelerating the spread of coronavirus in the United States is our lack of universal health care.
As we debate the costs of providing medical treatment for all, and as the virus tears through the fabric of our society, it’s become clear that many of the factors accelerating the spread of illness and death associated with this new plague are associated with the for-profit nature of our health care system.
Because we have a patchwork medical system whose primary motivating engine is corporate profit, rather than a unified public medical system whose motivating engine is the health of the public, communicable diseases are treated in a mindset of individual outcome. Our system focuses on the immediate needs of insured patients rather than treating the overall disease as a public emergency, thus hampering the containment and treatment of epidemics like these.
Did 5G’s Neurotoxic and Immunotoxic Electromagnetic Radiation Make Wuhan’s Coronavirus Epidemic Deadlier?
The unwanted truths about the connections between 1) our immune systems’ resistance to infectious organisms and 2) the immunotoxic electromagnetic radiation of 5G networks have been intentionally kept out of the breathless 24/7 media coverage by our “Bought-and-Sold” Politicians, Medical “Experts”, Public Health Bureaucrats and the Obedient Mainstream Media’s Talking Heads – each of whom appear to be controlled by the ruling class’s multibillionaire 1% that profits from every crisis, whether designed/man-made or accidental (except for their occasional irritating losses in stock market crashes (that the most of the savvy ones manage by short-selling maneuvers before the crashes occur).
One could ask the logical question: Is what is happening in the world of mandatory over-vaccinating everybody who will stand still the Zombie Apocalypse or is it just another false flag Swine Flu, SARS, MERS or Zika “Pseudo-epidemic”?
Talk Nation Radio: Norman Solomon on Bernie v Biden
Norman Solomon is cofounder and coordinator of RootsAction.org as well as founder and director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of a dozen books including War Made Easy and Made Love, Got War. He has written op-ed pieces for almost every large daily U.S. newspaper and appears often on a wide range of radio and TV outlets. We discuss the U.S. presidential election.
Trump's Real Base Is the Ruling Class
President Trump addresses the media at the White House on Super Tuesday. (Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP)
“…so what if another corporate-neoliberal Democratic presidency in the Clinton/Obama/Biden-Buttigieg/Bloomberg/Council on Foreign Relations mode would birth a 2025 Republican presidency even more fascistic than Trump’s (if Biden could somehow defeat a possibly recession-plagued Trump)? The oligarchs don’t care. They’ll work out a comfortable accommodation with that monster, too.”
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ANTIGONE, PRESENTED BY THE GIRLS OF ST. CATHERINE’S Theater Review
Sacred Fools has long been among my favorite theater companies and its West Coast premiere of Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s only confirms this critic’s longstanding admiration and affection for this imaginative enclave of theatrical envelop-pushers.
The ancient myth of Antigone - a young woman who suffered for heroically standing up to authority - has been oft-adapted by top talents for literally 2,500 years, starting with tragedies by both Sophocles and Euripides. The 20th century saw Antigone-related stage productions by dramatists Jean Cocteau, Jean Anouilh, Athol Fugard and Bertolt Brecht, as well as a ballet and opera by the great Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis (who composed memorable scores for Costa-Gavras films, including 1969’s Z, as well as 1964’s Zorba the Greek and 1973’s Serpico).
Massachusetts 2020 Democratic Primary
By Theodore de Macedo Soares
Beware of Fake Pandemics and the Nefarious Characters that Create Them
A grisly old PR pro waddles into a conference room where elite technocrats are waiting for his assessment of propaganda issues. He sits down, looks around, and says, “If you’re going to launch a phony epidemic, the ideal place for it is mainland China. The government will lock down that country quicker than a missile fired from a drone. And then nobody will be able to figure out what’s going on.
Which is exactly what you want.
Elizabeth Warren: Which Side Are You On?
The night before Super Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren spoke to several thousand people in a quadrangle at East Los Angeles College. Much of her talk recounted the heroic actions of oppressed Latina workers who led the Justice for Janitors organization. Standing in the crowd, I was impressed with Warren's eloquence as she praised solidarity and labor unions as essential for improving the lives of working people.
Now, days later, with corporate Democrat Joe Biden enjoying sudden momentum and mega-billionaire Mike Bloomberg joining forces with him, an urgent question hovers over Warren. It's a time-honored union inquiry: "Which side are you on?"
How Warren answers that question might determine the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. In the process, she will profoundly etch into history the reality of her political character.
"The urgency of Warren's decision can hardly be overstated."
Who Made Coronavirus? Was It the U.S., Israel or China Itself?
The most commonly reported mainstream media account of the creation of the Coronavirus suggests that it was derived from an animal borne microorganism found in a wild bat that was consumed by an ethnic Chinese resident of Wuhan. But there appears to be some evidence to dispute that in that adjacent provinces in China, where wild bats are more numerous, have not experienced major outbreaks of the disease. Because of that and other factors, there has also been considerable speculation that the Coronavirus did not occur naturally through mutation but rather was produced in a laboratory, possibly as a biological warfare agent.