Coronavirus

Jeff Bezos, world’s richest man, wants your donations to help Amazon employees

Mar 26, 2020 04:31

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s first centibillionaire, a man who vies with Bill Gates, American business magnate and software developer, for the title of the planet’s richest individual, is asking the public for donations to provide basic support to his 800,000 employees who are suffering in poverty in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Federal Sick Leave Law fails to protect many workers from COVID-19 threat

Mar 26, 2020 04:27

American workers who are directly affected by the new coronavirus can expect purportedly more generous income replacement – but only briefly. If they are under government-ordered quarantine or isolation, self-isolating at the instruction of a health care provider or experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and seeking a medical diagnosis, they can make use of the new Federal Sick Leave Law for up to two weeks. During this time, they should receive their usual pay, capped at $511 per day.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis of Capitalism

Mar 25, 2020 15:26

Climate change, war, genocide, economic exploitation, famine and curable disease take more victims daily than COVID-19 will in its entire reign. Because these phenomena are foundational to the status quo, victimizing those subjected to it rather than those who subject others to it, they aren’t shocking but routine.
The virus of capitalism has infected the COVID-19 fight in US

Mar 25, 2020 14:40

"U.S.-style capitalism is a virus, and it has infected every aspect of this situation. Worker safety, insurance coverage and costs, medical preparedness, and vital supplies — even the bill intended to rescue the country from some final financial calamity: All have been perverted and disrupted by the profit motive that never, ever, ever sleeps."
Beyond the western economic chaos of coronavirus is a western war economy

Mar 25, 2020 10:06

What does a virus have to do with war and repression? The coronavirus has disrupted global supply networks and spread panic throughout the world’s stock markets. The pandemic will pass, not without a heavy toll. But in the larger picture, the fallout from the virus exposes the fragility of a global capitalist economy that never fully recovered from the 2008 financial collapse and has been teetering on the brink of renewed crisis for years.
US has to shut down biowarfare labs to save the world from pandemics

Mar 25, 2020 09:57

The United States has been using biological weapons regularly for the past 50 years. It dropped hundreds of thousands of germ bombs with cholera and plague on Pyongyang alone during the Korean War, and hundreds of thousands or even millions elsewhere all over China and Korea. The US also attacked its own Congress in 2001.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis of capitalism

Mar 24, 2020 09:51

Climate change, war, genocide, economic exploitation, famine and curable disease take more victims daily than COVID-19 will in its entire reign. Because these phenomena are foundational to the status quo, victimizing those subjected to it rather than those who subject others to it, they aren’t shocking but routine. As such, they will never inspire the coordinated global response that coronavirus already has.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution’s advice to the nation on coronavirus

Mar 24, 2020 06:09

Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, in his message to the nation on the occasion of the tree-planting day early this month, spoke of the necessity to safeguard the environment; and advising people to take precautions against the coronavirus pandemic afflicting the country and the world, hailed the medical staff by calling their services to the people as jihad in the path of God.
The coronavirus primaries were illegitimate elections, here’s why? (2)

Mar 24, 2020 06:02

Multiple American states postponed their primaries, due to the coronavirus risk, before in-person voting took place on March 17. Rather than respect the fact that states were trying to protect the health of voters and poll workers, the US Democratic National Committee threatened states with the loss of delegates if they did not hold their primaries before June 9.
Climate change will still be a threat after Covid-19

Mar 23, 2020 14:54

The UN has repeatedly stressed that 2020 is a pivotal year in our battle to curb climate change. Hopes are high for COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, which is scheduled to be held in Glasgow, Scotland, in November. More than 30,000 delegates from around the world are due to fly in to attend the event, at which nations are expected to unveil concrete plans for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.