By Cecilia Capanna* – IlDigitale.it Covid-19 spreads all over the world, WHO declares it’s a pandemic. A global overview on how Countries are dealing with the emergency. March 2020, Covid-19 spreads all over the world: it’s a pandemic. People everywhere… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram* PENANG, Apr 3 2020 (IPS) – Martin Khor Kok Peng passed away just after the end of the first quarter of 2020. He leaves behind an unusually rich legacy. Atypically for people mainly working in the… Continue Reading
DutchNews.nl The Dutch government has been criticised by domestic politicians, MEPs, and Italian mayors and officials for its tough line on EU measures to support countries hard hit by the coronacrisis, and for showing a lack of solidarity to its… Continue Reading
By R. Daniel Kelemen* – The Washington Post Will Europe respond to Orban’s power grab? On Monday, Hungary’s Parliament granted Prime Minister Viktor Orbán the sweeping emergency powers he had asked for. Under the justification of the coronavirus epidemic, Orbán can… Continue Reading
By Selam Gebrekidan* – The New York Times Leaders around the world have passed emergency decrees and legislation expanding their reach during the pandemic. Will they ever relinquish them? LONDON — In Hungary, the prime minister can now rule by… Continue Reading
The Economist The chances are, though, that it will not be taken In Venice, water in the canals is running clear, offering glimpses of fish swimming against the current. As human activity grinds to a halt, natural rhythms resume. A similar,… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* The border between the United States and Canada has been closed. I don’t recall that ever happening before; I’m not sure what it is supposed to achieve, given that the coronavirus is rampant in both countries, and… Continue Reading
Opinion, Doug Gordon* – Newsweek “The system was blinking red.” That is what an intelligence official reportedly said about briefings President Donald Trump and congressional leaders received in January about the spread of coronavirus and its potential to become a… Continue Reading
By Lili Bayer – POLITICO While the new legislation remains in place, no elections can be held and Orbán’s government will be able to suspend the enforcement of certain laws The Hungarian parliament on Monday voted by a two-thirds majority… Continue Reading
By Jan Zielonka* -Social Europe (London) While initial responses to the coronavirus crisis have favoured national sovereignty and public authority, effective solutions will only emerge from a complex network of multi-level governance. From Madrid to Paris, Berlin to Warsaw, the… Continue Reading
Bonnie Kristian * -Newsweek The deterioration of U.S.-Chinese relations over who is to blame for the novel coronavirus may be a warning of things to come. Beijing has spent recent weeks in a concerted effort to shift blame for its… Continue Reading
By Pietro Garau* The Democratic establishment has concentrated political warfare on one goal: the removal of Donald J, Trump. It is an obsessive fixation, and a convenient one. The latter aspect resides in the reassuring narrative that once Trump is… Continue Reading
By Brian Wong – The Diplomat, Asia-Pacific By shipping medical supplies to European countries, China is seeking to boost its image as a responsible global leader. The COVID-19 outbreak has taken the world by storm, leading to a near-total standstill in… Continue Reading
By Nikki Schwab* – Daily Mail, UK Draft Andrew Cuomo! Democratic twittersphere lights up with demands to make New York governor the party’s 2020 candidate after commanding response to coronavirus put Joe Biden in the shade ‘Draft Andrew Cuomo’ accounts… Continue Reading
Asoka Bandarage* – Asia Times The number of people infected and dying from the Covid-19 pandemic is increasing exponentially. A massive loss of humanity, as occurred during the “Spanish” flu of 1918 that killed 50 million to 100 million, is… Continue Reading
By Tim Schwab* – The Nation Bill Gates Gives to the Rich (Including Himself). His renowned charitable activities seem to serve mainly private interests, namely his own. A Nation investigation illustrates the moral hazards surrounding the Gates Foundation’s $50 billion charitable enterprise.… Continue Reading
By Riccardo Petrella* Public water. Starting from the universal public security of water, the first world common good for life. It’s evening. Today more than 21,000 children under the age of five have died in the world (7.9 million every… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 24 2020 (IPS) – The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic is hard to predict as events are still unfolding, and estimates vary dramatically. UNCTAD estimates lost… Continue Reading
Arthur Lyon Dahl* – Seán Ó Siochrú* Should we thank God for the Pandemic? It may seem weird to be thankful for a catastrophe. Human suffering is never something to be sought or revelled in. But the pandemic now sweeping… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* -The Web of Debt, Blog In what is being called the worst financial crisis since 1929, the US stock market has lost a third of its value in the space of a month, wiping out all of its gains of… Continue Reading
