冠状病毒大流行动摇了美国的食品供应和生产系统。仅仅几个星期后，似乎其中很多都没有通过压力测试。
Even as food banks nationwide are inundated with hungry Americans, many of the country’s farmers are dumping or destroying their harvests. Amidst a pandemic that has seen tens of millions of workers laid off, the nation’s food banks have struggled to cope with the surge in demand for their vital services. In San Antonio, over 10,000 people lined
就像癌症一样，资本主义不断发展直至谋杀了宿主。在大流行停产期间，它没有获得所需的增长，而是变得良性。
With most of the country still on lockdown, all is quiet. For those of us lucky enough to be healthy and simply stuck at home — not in mourning; not sick or dying; not performing high-risk “essential” work; not waiting on long food bank lines — life is on pause. We’re held in limbo. Our existence floats nonchalantly in a bizarre stasis like the
由于像Amazon和Whole Foods这样的公司在广告宣传上花了很多钱，感谢他们的员工提供“英雄式”服务，他们甚至拒绝提供基本的防护装备或病假工资，并且无情地镇压任何内部异议。
In the wake of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, premium supermarket chain Whole Foods has redesigned its uniform, giving employees shirts that designate them as “heroes” and “hard core.” The revamp is one of many actions large corporations across the world have taken to symbolically thank their workers amidst the global crisis. Whole
特朗普政府中的反古巴狂热分子一直在诱使在海外工作的古巴医生叛逃，向记者支付负面新闻报道，对负责该计划的古巴人实行制裁，以及装备精良的国家驱逐古巴医生。
While Bernie Sanders paid a political price for uttering something positive about Cuba’s literacy program, the current pandemic has shown the whole world the heroic side of Cuba’s health care system. I saw this heroism firsthand when I worked with Cuban doctors in poor, remote villages in Africa. It was the 1970s and I was a young woman employed
在MintCast的这一部分中，调查记者Whitney Webb阐述了政府和公司COVID-19应对活动中的许多利益冲突，以及寻求治愈的方法如何与更大的议程联系起来，以利用公众对大流行的恐惧来构建技术属于奥威尔（1984）的暴政状态。
Welcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists the establishment would rather silence. In this episode, we are joined by independent journalist Whitney Webb. Many of our readers and listeners are familiar with
所谓的中间派本尼·甘茨（Benny Gantz）似乎已竭尽所能，以确保以色列的左派和中锋在未来数年中遭受重创，内塔尼亚胡将继续他长达数十年的统治。
It was intended to be a Machiavellian move, but the decision by Benny Gantz, leader of Israel’s Kahol Lavan (Blue and White) coalition, to join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led government is likely to destabilize the political fabric of Israeli society for years to come. In a surprising move, Gantz has entered into precarious political compromises,
