Long Breadlines Form Outside of Food Banks as America Struggles to Cope With COVID-19 Fallout

MintPress News spoke to a number of people on the front lines attempting to keep America fed during the worst pandemic in a century.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Coronavirus Food Bank Top Story photo

At least 10,000 cars line up in an orderly fashion in San Antonio, all full of hungry, increasingly desperate people. Thousands already arrived the night before just to get a chance to eat. “We just can’t feed this many,” said the CEO of the local food bank that Texans have descended upon. It is a scene playing out across the country; 1,300 cars

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Disunited States: Government Failure to Address Coronavirus is Sparking a Mutual Aid Revolution

As state and local authorities struggle and the federal government focus on saving Wall Street, a volunteer-driven mutual aid revolution is taking hold in disenfranchised communities across America.

Eleanor Goldfield
By Eleanor Goldfield
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I'm not from DC, but I live here. I'm now a part of this living, breathing being that is a city. This city. It helps me to think of cities that way, even ones that I don't fully feel at home in – like a body. And I'm like a blood transfusion. I know this isn't my city, my body, but it's where my life flows now, and so I best flow with it. This body

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Bodies in the Streets: IMF Imposed Measures Have Left Ecuador Unable to Cope with Coronavirus 

Ecuador is near collapse under the strain of the coronavirus after the government of Lenin Moreno stripped state services nearly bare at the behest of the IMF.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Ecuador Coronavirus Feature photo

If you are using one of the many coronavirus incidence trackers, the Pacific country of Ecuador does not seem to be particularly badly affected by COVID-19. Officially, the country has less than 7,500 cases and 333 deaths. But everybody knows this number is nonsense, including President Lenín Moreno, who freely admitted that authorities were

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Saudi Arabia Violates its Own Ceasefire As Yemen Announces First Cases of Coronavirus

The Saudi regime has engaged in a number of questionable activities since the global outbreak of COVID-19, including moving masses of African refugees deported from areas with coronavirus to the Yemeni border.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
By Ahmed Abdulkareem

HAJJAH, YEMEN -- Thursday proved to be a tragic day for internally displaced people in the Al-Mazraq Refugee Camp in Yemen’s northern Hajjah Province. The camp lies on the outskirts of Haradh city near the Yemen-Saudi border. Residents of the camp were shocked by the sound of huge explosions and aircraft buzzing overhead, especially as news had

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COVID-19: How the Media Hyped the Public Into an Anti-China Frenzy

New polls show an overwhelming desire by Americans to see some kind of retaliation against China over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
China coronavirus feature photo

A new Harris poll has found that, amidst the crisis, the American public’s attitude towards China has turned from frosty to outright hostile. 77 percent of the country blames China for the outbreak, with 54 percent stating that it owes the U.S. reparations for being the epicenter of the outbreak. The public also believes that China has acted highly

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New Research Shows Anti-Coronavirus Drugs Could Be Produced for Pennies

Instead, those drugs are being sold for thousands of dollars each, proving once again that the private, for-profit pharmaceutical industry is ill-equipped to handle a global public health crisis like COVID-19.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
coronavirus drugs feature photo

A new article in the Journal of Virus Eradication published yesterday explored the cost of mass producing several drugs that have shown distinct promise in the global fight against the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The research, headed by Dr. Andrew Hill from the Department of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, found treatments like

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