by Ellen Isaacs June 4, 2022 There is a runoff election upcoming in Colombia on June 19 between a staunch right winger, Rodolfo Hernández, and a so-called leftist, Gustavo Petro, both of whom got more votes in the first round than the centrist candidate representing the status quo. “So-called” leftist…

There is a great crescendo of clashes and dangers in the world, a true cacophony of violence and suffering, and yet from the media we hear only the cymbal crashes of Ukraine. …

by Karen Pomerantz and Ellen Isaacs March 1, 2022 As this is written, Russia’s rulers are invading Ukraine with increasing brutality and even threatening to use nuclear weapons. Neither workers in Russia, Ukraine, the US or anywhere in the world have anything to gain from this conflict. We will only…

It is not possible to serve two masters with opposing goals. In the case of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it has not always been obvious that such a dichotomy exists, but it has become ever more apparent since Trump and Covid-19. Before that, many of us…

by Ellen Isaacs January 10, 2022 F for failure, failure of the US capitalist system to exert any control over Covid-19. In fact, US capitalism has a worse death rate than any “advanced” nation in the world save Italy, despite being the richest and most powerful (at least for now)…

Young black — and Latin, immigrant, and Native American — children in the US have been chained up and abused for centuries. Today in schools where poor and nonwhite students are the majority, students are targeted and attacked for misbehavior, much of it minor, some of it for dissenting, some…

$56,000 a year for a new Alzheimer’s drug, aducanumab (Aduheim), that has little if any clinical benefit and substantial risk. A 40% rise in the share price for its producer, Biogen. All this despite lack of a single positive vote by any of 11 expert Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…

REVOLT IN INDIA: DOES A SEISMIC STRUGGLE GUARANTEE SYSTEMIC CHANGE? The largest strike in history, a truly awe-inspiring struggle, has been underway in India since September 2020. Over 250 million farmers and other workers from finance, transport, steel, energy and power, health care, communications, ports and docks have participated in…

The surge of wild fires in California — the ravages of climate change, the greed and incompetence of utility companies, the corruption of politicians, the ongoing power shutoffs, the suffering of millions of workers who lose power, money, food, health and safety — no tale better illustrates the death-dealing heartlessness…