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In a recent review of Rob Wallace’ latest work, Dead Epidemiologists, we are reminded that “If the virus has a source it is not Yunnan but the boardrooms of giant corporations.” The review takes the time to name the culprits: “the retail corporations whose main aim is to drive profits up by getting cheap food on the shelf, paying less and less to producers; the “cafos” ( concentrated animal feeding operations) who now dominate livestock rearing in the USA and South America, and wh...

April 2021 “Our main enemy, of course, in our own country, it is the regime of Putin and his friends with their billion-dollar fortunes. No war but a class war!” - read article... Solidarity call March 2021 We call on the international left to take an active stand against political repression in Russia and to protest the persecution of Anastasia Ponkina. - read article... Greece

On the first Friday in March, SftP member Joseph Graves Jr. will interview Rob Wallace about his work Dead Epidemiologists. Grave'

The BVI Beacon Solar tech training starts at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College Roughly a year after a Maryland solar developer named Rob Wallace announced that he had inked a memorandum of understanding with H. Lavity Stoutt Community College to start a solar … During a reception to celebrate the launch of the solar technician training programme, government ministers mingled with instructors Kellyann Few and Damon Moulden. (Photo: JOEY WALDINGER) Roughly a year after a Maryland solar develo...

Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Big Flu and Dead Epidemiologists, has become an international pundit in the conversation about the rise and spread of global…

Outgoing administration’s last-minute changes to wildlife protections draw criticism Douglas Main © Photograph by Kiliii Yuyan, National Geographic A view of the central Brooks Range, Alaska, near the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. On January 6, the Trump Administration sold leases to drill for oil in this pristine wilderness area. Over the past four years, wildlife and environmental protections in the United States have been under attack. President Donald Trump’s admini...

“The end is in sight. Effectively deployed testing may be able to ameliorate social distancing until the vaccines arrive …To have several highly effective vaccines for this horrible virus after less than a year is a quite astonishing achievement, among the greatest things that we — by which I mean both humanity in general and molecular biologists in particular — have ever accomplished.” So wrote Rupert Beale of the Francis Crick Institute in the London Review of Books early last mont...

Iasked Jacksonites to reflect on the local news stories of 2020 that had the greatest impact on them personally. Susan Marsh, author and 30-year veteran of the U.S. Forest Service, wrote about Bear 399 and her four cubs wandering through the valley: “What really had an impact on me in addition to the bears themselves was how many people in the valley were hypervigilant about keeping them safe when they wandered out of the park. Instead of the usual eco-porn about grizzly bears with teeth b...

John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. R. Jamil Jonna is associate editor for communications and production at Monthly Review. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. The authors thank John Mage, Craig Medlen, and Fred Magdoff for their assistance. The U.S. economy and society at the start of 2021 is more polarized than it has been at any point since the Ci...

Ecosystem Destruction Fueled the Pandemic. Pollution Has Made It Worse. Ecosystem loss from deforestation and agriculture has caused hundreds of diseases to jump from other animals to humans. Jared Rodriguez / Truthout On December 30, 2019, an urgent email circulated on the internet, in which the Wuhan Municipal Health Committee noted the treatment of multiple patients with “pneumonia of unknown cause.” Since then, researchers have identified antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...