NYU Langone Tells ER Doctors to ‘Think More Critically’ About Who Gets Ventilators NYU Langone Health, one of the nation’s top academic medical centers, told emergency-room doctors that they have “sole discretion” to place patients on ventilators and institutional...
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This is Your Security Force
by Scott Horton | Mar 28, 2020 | Blog
They don't give a liquid shit about you or your family. I posted a note in this space a week or so ago from my sister begging people to stop hoarding (that is, stockpiling more than they need) the highest quality N95 masks that healthcare workers need desperately. But...
Doctors In Italy: We No Longer Help Those Over 60
by Steven Woskow | Mar 22, 2020 | Blog
This is why people that work in U.S. health care are trying so hard to keep the number of cases down. When medical systems become overwhelmed, they have to make heartbreaking decisions about who lives and who dies. "As his department receives coronavirus patients who...
Please Don’t Hoard N95 Masks! Hospitals Need Them Desperately.
by Scott Horton | Mar 21, 2020 | Blog
This is a note just posted by my sister, a nurse at a hospital in Austin: I know everyone has heard the healthcare workers cry for getting safe PPE. But I don't think I've really read anything that explains exactly why. My last shift at the hospital, I was asked to...
Don’t Bailout The Share Buyback Queens
by Steven Woskow | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog
From Wolf Richter at Wolf Street. The Trump administration is considering a $850-billion stimulus package (bailout) for corporate America. This includes a bailout for the airline industry - the same airline industry that spent the past few years spending cash and...
As Coronavirus Explodes in Italy, Doctors Are Forced to Choose Who Gets Care
by Scott Horton | Mar 12, 2020 | Blog
From The Atlantic via Defense One: Two weeks ago, Italy had 322 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. At that point, doctors in the country’s hospitals could lavish significant attention on each stricken patient. One week ago, Italy had 2,502 cases of the virus, which...
The Good News
by Scott Horton | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog
The WSJ says that China and South Korea seem to have already peaked in their Corona virus outbreaks. It seems it never did break out in Shanghai. But apparently only due to totalitarian travel restrictions and Orwellian surveillance. Update: Oh shit. The bad news:...
Here’s to Health, Moderately
by Will Grigg | Mar 3, 2020 | Article Clippings, Everything Will
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What’s Happening w/Buck Johnson
Buck joined me to discuss fentanyl, drug addiction, boomer cons, media treatment of Trump, and what is going right and wrong in the Trump administration. ALP
100 Memers vs One Pamela Anderson
The social media feed gruel has switched it’s serving of slop from the speculation about the potential outcome of one hundred men versus a gorilla. The content creators who recycle the same shit, because of algorithms and trends now concern themselves with the...
Anti-War Blog – Too Thirsty to Cry
In the photo essay, Ethiopia : The Scorched Earth, Mary Anne Fitzgerald writes in the caption beneath a photo of a young girl crying, “Tears of hunger are a good sign. During the final stages of malnutrition children are too weak to cry.” There was Live Aid and U.S.A....
RIP: Remembering Edward Lozansky, Towering Prophet of Sanity, Decency, and Peace
Our friend Edward Lozansky left this world last week. He was a long-time writer for Antiwar.com. His many articles can be found here and on our blog here. He was president and founder of the American University in Moscow and the U.S.-Russia Forum. He is also a...
F35 Follies: Fat Amy Fails Again and Again
The F35 is in trouble in Europe. NATO observed the U.S. cut off its vital military aid deliveries to Ukraine, and choke Kyiv's access to American-derived intelligence in a bid to bend Ukraine to its will, namely to sit down at the negotiating table for ceasefire...
New Chasing Ghosts Podcast Episode is Live Monday 5 May 2025.
Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War" Military sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a government effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. It can take place...
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