Tag: New Press

There’s a lot to tell: Irish Echo on Helena Sheehan’s “Navigating the Zeitgeist”

There’s a lot to tell: Irish Echo on Helena Sheehan’s “Navigating the Zeitgeist”

“We talked long into the night calling into question everything we had been brought up to believe….One night, it was all cozy and almost comfortable when I was in a pub with Billy and Seamus drinking, talking, and laughing for several hours. I would think back on it later with a strong sense of pathos, in light of what happened later, in light of how they both died. On that night, however, we were comrades and all seemed well,” says Helena Sheehan in a recent interview with The Irish Echo…

“Dead Epidemiologists:” A personalized, enlivening take on Covid-19

“Dead Epidemiologists:” A personalized, enlivening take on Covid-19

Author Rob Wallace made a decision: His new book Dead Epidemiologists would take a personal approach. How could it not? While he introduces his work through this intimate lens, Wallace’s perspective is global, tracking “the implications of capitalist agricultural production, distribution and consumption that is harming the web of life….”

Rob Wallace on who’s to blame (Listen: Background Briefing)

Rob Wallace on who’s to blame (Listen: Background Briefing)

“…the thought was, this is the cost of doing business, and that they would externalize the cost, not just on the people of China, but on the rest of the world…China is not alone in that. The U.S. has done that, Europe has done that…the Swine flu, H1N1 that emerged in 2009 outside Mexico City, our team calls that the NAFTA flu, (from) the U.S. meat dumped onto the Mexican market….In other words we did it ourselves, in 2009, this very thing that China has also been doing for several decades.”