Old-Age Poverty

Authored by Rob Slane via TheBlogMire.com, Having packed my TV in a box some 20 years ago (did I miss anything good?), I feel I have developed a certain immunity to some of the more blatant propaganda techniques waged upon the populace by the media and Government. On the occasions…

Father to daughter: "Stay on the street!" Charles MudedeAbout three weeks ago, Texas's Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick implored old Americans to sacrifice their lives for an economy that makes a small number of people spectacularly rich. Those who watched the horror movie Midsommar understood where the Lieutenant Governor was coming…

Thought leaders put a gender lens on COVID-19 - Even though the COVID-19 pandemic is viewed primarily as a global health crisis, having claimed over 130,000 lives worldwide, we are only beginning to understand how this pandemic will deeply impact our nation economically, politically, culturally and socially—and how those far-ranging…

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in one of his Selected Letters writes: “In working our plans of self-restraint, attention must not for a moment be withdrawn from the fact that we are all sparks of the divine and therefore partake of its nature, and since there can be no such thing as self-indulgence with…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