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Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The Ongoing Covid Disaster
23 Mar 2022
Pollsters have advised Joe Biden to declare covid over. But the pandemic revealed all the shortcomings of a political system which is dedicated to austerity and to protecting capitalist interests.…
Donald Earl Collins
America’s New Dystopian Normal
15 Mar 2022
The high covid death toll in this country is a result of capitalist austerity policies.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Covid Fueled by Neoliberal Austerity
05 Jan 2022
The neo-liberal austerity model of governance ensures that Covid-19 will continue spreading and producing new variants. Only people focused public health remedies will end the pandemic.
Salimah Valiani, PhD
Africa's COVID-19 Vaccine and the Scandal of the Centuries
05 Oct 2021
African nations might have produced a patent free vaccine that would have benefitted the whole world.
Andrea Germanos
WHO Chief Blasts 'Grotesque' Vaccine Inequality as Rich Nations Block Speedy End of Global Pandemic
31 Mar 2021
"As long as the virus continues to circulate anywhere, people will continue to die, trade and travel will continue to be disrupted, and the economic recovery will be further delayed."
Mya Shone
The Vaccine Distribution Crisis: Capitalism in its Death Agony
10 Feb 2021
The hoarding of existing supply and the refusal to create a vast public infrastructure capable of producing and distributing COVID-19 vaccines are inherent consequences of capitalism.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Freedom Rider: The Never Ending COVID Crisis
03 Feb 2021
Profits determine the US response to a health care crisis, so Americans are in trouble regardless of who occupies the White House.
Eleanor J. Bader
Activists Are Mobilizing to Create an Eviction-Free United States
20 Jan 2021
Rent strikers are doing all they can to stop the violence of evictions and promote a vision of collective and community ownership of housing for everyone.
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Will COVID-19 Contact Tracing Expand State Surveillance?
06 Jan 2021
The US remains wholly incapable of tracing Covid-19 contagion, but if it tried, we might wind up with “the worst of both worlds” – a horror of coercion and confusion that still failed to stop the e
Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor
Capitalism on a Ventilator: A New Book Analyzes the Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. and China
06 Jan 2021
While China contained Covid-19 and preserved its economy, the U.S. spins lies while hundreds of thousands of its people die for lack of even a semblance of a national health system.