Old-Age Poverty

Gandhi, in one of his Selected Letters writes: “In working our plans of self-restraint, attention must not for a moment be withdrawn from the fact that we are all sparks of the divine and therefore partake of its nature, and since there can be no such thing as self-indulgence with…

Changpeng Zhao or ‘CZ,’ who is the CEO of Binance the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, has made headlines with his recent acquisition of CoinMarketCap. However, an interview with the head of Binance Charity reveals CZ’s goals span beyond just the success of his company. As Binance rises to…

The third in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times. Javier Moreno Zacares (JMZ): Somewhere in between left accelerationism and de-growth lies the idea of a ‘Green New Deal’ now being championed by social-democratic forces in different countries. Despite its different incarnations, what…

Tensions were building inside the Alabama jail. A group of new detainees had just been dropped off at the Etowah County Detention Center in downtown Gadsden, and one of the men appeared sick. Word was spreading that he and the others had been exposed to the coronavirus. Detainees demanded that…

Home   >   U.S. News More and more older people are leading active lifestyles, but the raging coronavirus pandemic is highlighting questions that society hitherto sought to suppress. The first article in a series The threatening finger of the coronavirus pandemic is drawing attention, paradoxically, to one of the…

The eThekwini municipality has long ignored the homeless in Durban. Now the coronavirus lockdown has forced it to acknowledge their existence and rope in help to meet their needs. "The city used to ask us not to feed the homeless, now they are begging us to ," a charity worker…

The downtown homeless center has been closed for the duration of the pandemic. A shelter has been temporarily set up three miles away.And so the wretched wander the business district, pitching camp on the sidewalks, warming their suppers and sandwiches on the sewer caps that billow with steam.Cutting through the…

The first case of COVID-19, now a global pandemic present in 199 countries, was reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Africa's first confirmed case was in Egypt on 15 February. The first sub-Saharan case was reported in Nigeria on 28 February. Information to date confirms that older people are…

On November 28th, 2019, the European Union officially and solemnly declared the “climate emergency,” in a ceremony presided over by the would-be 17-year-old prophet Greta Thunberg. Today, almost four months later, in the midst of a real emergency, the only thing that remains official and solemn in that declaration is…

COVID-19 will cause a lot of deaths if we don’t curb the spread of infection successfully by lockdowns and other recently announced measures. The pandemic is anticipated to disproportionately impact older people in the “baby boomer” generation – those aged between 55 and 74. In terms of fatalities, individuals over…