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  Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism

  The Obama administration foresaw the problem, and contracted with a small firm that specialized in producing inexpensive, high-quality ventilators. But then capitalist logic intervened
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  Feffer: We Need a Coronavirus Truce

  International cooperation needs to take priority right now, and countries must stop their wars against one another and against their own populations
• Cheung: Chicagoans Readying for Rent Strike

  Calling on city and landlords to provide relief amid coronavirus pandemic: ‘The hammer is going to drop’
• Faber: Spain Nationalized Private Clinics To Fight COVID-19

  Spain faced the second worst infection rate in Europe, and took control of the country's private health care companies to improve its response. What does this mean for Spain's public health care system going forward?
• Johnson: US Unemployment Rate Could Soon Reach 32%

  During Great Depression It Peaked at 25%
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  Raina: An Inert Molecule Has Our Backs to the Wall

  The resistance that we saw building in India and across the world has melted overnight into a frightened retreat from a menace that for now threatens life itself. But what will follow after the scourge has had its day?
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  Rasmus: On Market Solutions to the Covid-19 Crisis

  A few notable cases of how the market has failed us
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  Cole: ran Covid-19 Deaths Rival US as Trump Blockade blocks Medical Supplies

  The European Union has activated the Instex trading mechanism for the purpose of sending medicine and medical supplies to Iran to fight the coronavirus outbreak
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  Yong: How the Pandemic Will End

  The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out
• Taylor: Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders

  The case has never been clearer for a transition to Medicare for All, but its achievement clashes with the Democratic Party’s decades-long hostility to funding the social-welfare state
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  Cohen: To Develop Vaccine, Pharma and Government Will Have to Break Old Patterns

  One of the major lessons of the H1N1 shortage is to under-promise and over-deliver
• Foster: Review: The Far Right Today by Cas Mudde

  The far right thrives on 'economic anxiety and cultural backlash'
• Grossman: Right-Wing Media Joined Trump in Enabling Health Disaster

  Conservative pundits encouraged their audiences to join Trump in his denial in the face of a health disaster
• Lerner: Big Pharma Prepares to Profit From the Coronavirus

  During the current crisis, pharmaceutical makers may have even more leeway than usual because of language industry lobbyists inserted into an $8.3 billion coronavirus spending package, passed last week, to maximize their profits from the pandemic
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  Bond: Covid-19’s attacks on the down-and-out in ultra-unequal South Africa

  Lacking linkages to the necessary street-heat that should accompany all the new policy demands, most pro-poor advocacy has been directed at meekly persuading a Presidency, Treasury and Reserve Bank to reverse course
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  Hynes: Winners: Wars, Walls and Wealthy; Losers: Diplomacy, Public Health, Environment

  Why do we fail in protecting our own people’s health and well-being while we squander more than a trillion dollars each year – with the assent of both Republicans and Democrats – on maintaining a failed and futile military empire across the world?
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  Cole: Nearly 1/3 of US Doctors are Foreign-Born, on Pandemic Front Lines

  It turns out we need those foreigners after all, despite what Trump thinks
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  Gordon: The Future May Be Female

  But the Pandemic Is Patriarchal
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  Provost: Who’s happy about coronavirus?

  Our rights and democracies are under threat. But how this crisis reshapes our world depends on us
• Peggs: The politics of Covid-19: Time to requisition empty homes

  The government’s actions to try and house rough sleepers are inadequate. The acquisition of empty homes for the homeless is a viable short and long-term solution
• MacLeod: One Quarter of the World’s Population is Under US Sanctions

  Eight countries, representing around one-quarter of all humanity, say that Washington’s actions are undermining their response to the COVID–19 pandemic sweeping the planet.
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  Flanders: Bigotry and the Health Crisis

  Instead of erasing our weak parts we’ve raced them, blaming vulnerability on the vulnerable and hoping the bridges wouldn’t break where we are