‘Fanatical Cruelty’: As Pandemic Rages, Trump Refuses to Reopen Affordable Care Act Enrollment to Help Uninsured
By Jake Johnson, April 01, 2020
As millions of people across the United States lose their jobs—and their employer-provided health insurance—amid the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump has reportedly decided against reopening Affordable Care Act enrollment to ease the economic pain of the uninsured and help protect them from devastating medical costs.
The Post-Coronavirus World Will be Far Worse Than the Pre-Coronavirus World
By Eric Zuesse, April 01, 2020
Signs, especially in the United States, are that the post-coronavirus-plagued world will have even more inequality of wealth, within each nation, than existed prior to the plague. Billionaires are demanding to be included in the bailouts by their governments; and, because billionaires financed the careers of the successful politicians who won seats in their country’s legislature, those demands are almost certain to be complied with. Only the least-corrupt nations will be able to recover fully from the current plague.
Trump Asks Putin for Help in Oil War
By Mike Whitney, April 01, 2020
For the last month, Saudi Arabia has been flooding the market with crude oil to force Russia