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Do You Get The Feeling That The World Is Spinning Out Of Control?
The Omicron variant of the Coronavirus comes at a time when the world is especially vulnerable, battered as it is by the repeated disruption to economic and social life. Indeed, I would say that the Omicron variant can very well spell the death knell to the nascent economic recovery that most nations worldwide were beginning to experience. Moreover, with so much media hysteria about this variant, it is likely that panic responses would ensue like lockdowns and bans on air travel, being announced at short notice. This is already happening as can be seen in the multiple travel bans that most countries have imposed on the African countries, from where this variant is spreading worldwide.
By Rammohan Susarla4 years ago in The Swamp
What to know about omicron, the new COVID variant
The United States is imposing travel restrictions in response to a new form of the coronavirus prevalent in southern Africa. The limits, which are slated to go into force on Monday, are being put in place out of a sense of prudence, according to a senior Biden administration official.
By Pathum Dilshan4 years ago in The Swamp
What happened to the outrage over Black Friday?
I’ll never forget the Friday after Thanksgiving, 2011. I was vaguely aware of the pseudo-holiday known as Black Friday, but I had seldom participated. On that day, however, I had to go to a local big-box store to get diapers and baby wipes for my then four-week-old daughter, Catherine. As the sun sank in the dreary November sky over Toledo, Ohio, I noticed traffic in this small Midwestern city had slowed to a crawl more than a mile from the mall.
By Ashley Herzog4 years ago in The Swamp
Tigary: Humanitarian Crisis!
CAUTION! NEWS: Humanitarian crisis present in the state of Tigray, Ethiopian Region! Culture and peoples in threat of geneocide! Since November 4th of 2020, locals have and are still being starved, attacked, raped, and/or murdered by Ethiopian forces, Eritrean forces, and armed Amhara militias, as per orders of their governments. Countless horrific war crimes have been committed beneath the public's eye for over a year now, and not much has been done to stop it.
By Cara Jean Andersen4 years ago in The Swamp
A Line in the Sand
When you are young, it is possible to believe that adults are there for you; that they are aware of what is best for you; that they are doing the right thing. I thought so for a very long time, all through the great disappointment that was my father, his replacement who could not stand even in his shadow as an example worth following, and many other figures in my life who were always lacking in some way. My moment of discovery came in the most innocent manner and I still recall what it was all about.
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in The Swamp
Thirty Yards
30 Yards (1965) Selma Ala 1965 The hatred outside my world first touched me at the age of eight on a cold March Sunday afternoon. While playing, a ruckus came from Alabama’s Highway 80, the road from Selma to Montgomery. I crossed the street and trespassed the base commander's yard to the perimeter fence that separated me from the world. At eight years old and the third of four boys, I had free rein within the base neighborhood. My fighter pilot dad, the Chief Test Flight Officer, had brought us to Craig Air Force base in Selma, Alabama. The students and instructors broke the jets, maintenance fixed them, and my dad performed the in-flight tests before returning to flight operations. The din from the highway grew louder.
By J. S. Wade4 years ago in The Swamp
Neoliberalism Failed us. Let us at least Salvage The Present, Even if We Do Not Have a Future Worth Living For.
It would be an understatement to say that Neoliberal Capitalism is dying. Right from gross inequalities and inequities of wealth and access to goods and services, to environmental destruction to glaring deficiencies in the way public services as well as the “wealth of the commons” is distributed, neoliberalism as an ideology and as a working model on how to run our societies has failed. Indeed, the only good that has come from this grotesque concept is that the Top 1% have seen their incomes and wealth grow exponentially to the point where the rest are locked in a desperate “race for even to survive”.
By Rammohan Susarla4 years ago in The Swamp
