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Eve Ottenberg

  • July 10, 2023

    A nation of savage inequality

    Roughly 38,000 US veterans eat from garbage cans every day. So Fox News reported back in January, advocating a helping hand for homeless veterans....

  • June 24, 2023

    Forever chemicals

    Forever chemicals are called forever for a reason. They take hundreds of years to disappear, and cancer-causing forever chemicals are everywhere....

  • March 21, 2022

    Genocide

    When the United States stole $7 billion from Afghanistan on February 11, that was no mere crime of robbery. It was a war crime and a crime against...

  • February 22, 2022

    Covid-free US?

    America, we are told, is done with Covid. Who tells us? Businessmen, the politicians they purchase, economists, pundits, pollsters and know-it-alls...

  • November 08, 2021

    Exploiting labour

    Five decades of neoliberal plunder by US corporations and local oligarchs, backed up by the lurking menace of US-trained death squads and...

  • October 25, 2021

    Rightwing horror

    The trauma that was Trump never completely recedes. Every time the Democrats flub something, which happens often, the possibility of Trump’s...

  • January 17, 2021

    The vaccine rollout

    At the rate we’re vaccinating against Covid in the US, it will take 10 years for the entire population to receive shots. To counter this, on...

  • September 21, 2020

    No economic relief

    With tens of millions unemployed, inevitable eviction merely postponed for a few months and low-wage jobs and small businesses drying up like the...

  • September 07, 2020

    The Covid-19 testing

    On August 20, the Trump regime prohibited the FDA from regulating Covid-19 tests. This could cause bad tests and false results, as was possibly the...

  • August 01, 2020

    Future Earth

    The only good thing to say about Covid is that it caused carbon emissions to drop. Not enough to save humanity from catastrophic climate change, but...

  • April 03, 2020

    Corona petri dish

    Now is the time to empty the prisons. With over two million people incarcerated, the vast majority for nonviolent crimes, prisoners are packed like...

  • March 20, 2019

    Displacement in Chicago

    Beginning in 2013, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel unveiled an ambitious plan to shutter 330 underperforming public schools. The plan was soon whittled...