Coronavirus criminals and pandemic profiteers : accountability for those who caused the crisis / John Nichols.
"In 2020, hundreds of thousands of coronavirus deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people, as revealed here by John Nichols"-- During the COVID-19 epidemic, hundreds of thousands of deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
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2022.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 320 pages ; 22 cm |
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Contents:
- Preface: Accountability is a dish best served fresh, and hot
- Introduction: In the name of Mike Jackson
- The killing presidency of Donald Trump
- Mike Pence: Yes-man of the Apocalypse
- The grounding of Jared Kushner
- The unmasking of Mark Meadows
- Mike Pompeo's cold war against science and solidarity
- How Betsy DeVos tried to leverage a pandemic to privatize public education
- Elaine Chao let them die
- Mitch McConnell's fatal bargain
- How Rand Paul got Covid-19 wrong, wrong, and wrong again
- Have another shot of hydroxychloriquine, Ron Johnson
- The Kristi Noem nightmare
- Ron DeSantis's imperial overreach
- Andrew Cuomo's broken halo
- The deadly delusions of Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Rebecca Bradley
- That time Rahm Emanuel offshored America's ability to fight a pandemic
- Pfizer's vaccine profiteering
- Drowning Grover Norquist's anti-government delusion in the bathtub of his own hypocrisy
- The pandemic profiteering of Jeffrey Preston Bezos
- Conclusion: The United States of impunity.