Tag: covid
How Scammers Stole BILLIONS in COVID Relief Funding
Try Dashlane for Free @ https://www.dashlane.com/pleasantgreen & get 10% off Premium with code: pleasantgreeen Law enforcement officials are estimating that over 200 BILLION dollars in pandemic unemployment assistance has been lost to fraud. How did…
Beyond Putin and Navalny: Is there a left alternative for Russia?
Read the full edited text transcript of this interview here: https://therealnews.com/putin-navalny-and-the-left-the-coming-political-crisis-in-russia. Alexei Navalny has been celebrated in the West as the democratic savior of Russia, but are things that simple? New TRNN contributor Radhika Desai…
‘We want Rikers closed and no new jails in its place!’
COVID-19 turned what were already inhumane conditions at Rikers Island, New York’s most notorious jail, into a full-blown humanitarian crisis. Prisoners, activists, and legal advocates are demanding it be closed for good. For years, prisoners,…
Chris Hedges: Mass politics must be rooted in class struggle
From the social upheaval embodied in Donald Trump’s presidency and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice to rampant corporate plunder and increasingly widespread labor unrest, the conditions for an organized mass political movement exist in…
The drug-resistant bacteria crisis no one’s talking about
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the world for the past two years, but there’s a potentially deadlier threat creeping across the globe right now that hardly anyone is talking about. According to a recent report…
Rattling the Bars: San Quentin Prison is a COVID deathtrap
In 2020, at least 23 people died at San Quentin State Prison in California due to COVID-19. Two years later, COVID-19 remains a clear and present threat to incarcerated people, despite California’s attempts to implement…
Workers are essential, capitalists are not w/Maximillian Alvarez | The Chris Hedges Report
TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his recent book on the lives of frontline workers in the COVID-19 pandemic, The Work of Living. Link to the book: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-work-of-living/ Production: Dwayne…
COVID-19 isn’t ‘over’—but your Medicaid might be | The Chris Hedges Report w/ Dr. Margaret Flowers
The Biden administration is poised to allow the national emergency on COVID-19 to expire on May 11, 2023. Once that occurs, between 5 to 14 million Americans previously covered under Medicaid will lose their insurance….
Neo-fascists have taken over Shasta County—is your hometown next? | The Marc Steiner Report
Shasta County, California has become a laboratory for far-right activists in search of power. The county has long been a Republic outpost in a blue state, but since the COVID-19 pandemic, local politics have taken…
What happened to BLM-inspired activism in sports? w/Howard Bryant | Edge of Sports
The growth of the Black Lives Matter movement through the 2010s catalyzed a resurgence of Black activism in professional sports that had its climax in 2020 with the athletes’ boycott following the shooting of Jacob…
