Category Archives: Pandemic

As the Vulnerable Wait, Some Political Leaders’ Spouses Get Covid Vaccines

KHN continues its coverage of the vaccine distribution shambles, with political spouses allowed to get jabbed before those at higher risk.

Whoops, Dander Way Back Up: What’s With the Vaccines?

A detailed discussion around the world of some of the many ways officials and executives are impeding the districution of vaccines.

Michael Hudson: Looking Forward to 2021

Micheal Hudson gives a sobering 2021 forecast.

2021 Will Be Volatile

Richard Murphy’s 2021 forecast.

Critics Warn Repeal of Section 230 ‘Would Be Devastating for Human Rights, Social Movements, and Marginalized People’

No, Section 230 is not about Facebook. It protects you from liabilty if you forward an e-mail, so you should think twice about a repeal.

4 Burning Questions on the Global Vaccine Rollout

Warnings of “corruption and incompetence coming together,” as vaccine distribution begins.

A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar

An in-depth discussion of financial capitalism versus earlier models and the Chinese and Russian approach, with a focus on the role of rent.

Polarization, Then a Crash: Michael Hudson on the Rentier Economy

Michael Hudson discusses the chokehold of pro-finance, pro-rentier capitalism reaching into the present COVID-19 crisis.

Analysis: Some Said the Vaccine Rollout Would Be a ‘Nightmare.’ They Were Right.

COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been deficient and disorganized, suffering from flaws that plague the U.S. for-profit health care system.

Rolling Out the Vaccine

More discussion of vaccine policy, such as it is.

Quick Notes on the Brexit Deal

Brexit: an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.

Larry Summers’ Opposition to $2000 Covid Payments Confirms Our Classic: “Why Larry Summers Should Not Be Permitted to Run Anything More Important than a Dog Pound”

Larry Summers is at it again.