By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Even in the midst of the pandemic, the rich are getting richer and bolder in their fight against working Americans. The American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Michael Strain wrote an op-ed in the New… Continue Reading
By Democracy Now! Guests : Michael Baker, professor of public health at the University of Otago in Wellington, New Zealand. He is an epidemiologist and a member of the New Zealand Ministry of Health’s Technical Advisory Group. New Zealand implemented… Continue Reading
The Economist They are blunt instruments that can cause immense harm. Time to be more discriminating Since china locked down the city of Wuhan on January 23rd, over a third of the world’s population has at one time or another been… Continue Reading
By Samira Sadeque – IPS A future repetition of the current COVID-19 pandemic is preventable with massive cooperation on international and local levels and by ensuring biological diversity preservation around the world, experts recently said. How to prevent the current… Continue Reading
By Jeet Heer* – The Nation Sarah Cooper has cracked the Trump code with pandemic pantomimes Sarah Cooper has become the breakout star of the pandemic by being the first comedian to figure out that Donald Trump’s absurd words are… Continue Reading
Nesrine Malik* – The Guardian The government seems unable to take the right decision unless it is subjected to a campaign of public shaming The first two doctors to die of Covid-19 on the NHS frontline were born in Sudan.… Continue Reading
Reception of Technical Interns in beauty industry by DEVNET JAPAN DEVNET International (DEVNET), NGO of United Nations ECOSOC cooperated with Hanoi Polytechnic College(HPC) in Vietnam toward Asian economic development on 20th March. DEVNET receives graduates of Hanoi Polytechnic College in… Continue Reading
Opinion / Jan Lundius, PhD STOCKHOLM / ROME, May 22 2020 (IPS) – It is easy to generalize about migration. Populist politicians often portray migrants as strangers and ”our” homeland as a stable entity, rooted in an old agricultural society.… Continue Reading
By Bob Dreyfuss* – The Nation The current administration is smearing China in the same way Bush fabricated intelligence on Iraq. There’s a meme that appears now and then on Facebook and other social media: “Those who don’t study history are… Continue Reading
By Daniel Boffey , the Guardian’s Brussels bureau chief Exclusive: ‘The question is how big,’ says Dr Andrea Ammon, who thinks March skiing breaks were pivotal to spread The prospect of a second wave of coronavirus infection across Europe is no longer… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad*) – Independent Media Institute On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a cable to U.S. State Department instructing officials how… Continue Reading
The Economist Extremists see the pandemic as the prelude to the apocalyptic “boogaloo” IN MORE THAN 30 of America’s 50 state capitals angry crowds have been gathering to protest against stay-at-home orders. Buoyed by tweets from President Donald Trump encouraging… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – Common Dreams Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. When the Dodd Frank Act was passed in 2010, President Obama triumphantly declared, “No… Continue Reading
By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute Germany’s highest court issued a ruling that could threaten the existence of the euro with a constitutional court decision that said the European Central Bank’s bond-buying operations exceeded the ECB’s legal remit, and… Continue Reading
By David Nabarro and Joe Colombano (*) GENEVA, May 19 2020 (IPS) – When the COVID-19 virus travelled from Wuhan, China halfway across the world through Europe, the Americas and beyond in the space of a few weeks, it gave… Continue Reading
Analysis|Stanly Johny* – The Hindi Earlier this month, the U.S. imposed visa restrictions on the Chinese journalists working in the country, limiting their work period to 90 days Relations between the U.S. and China plunged to a nadir in recent… Continue Reading
The Economist The flow of people, trade and capital will be slowed Even before the pandemic, globalisation was in trouble. The open system of trade that had dominated the world economy for decades had been damaged by the financial crash and… Continue Reading
By Nanjala Nyabola* – The Nation If reporting doesn’t improve, the creativity and agency of swaths of humanity will be lost to history As Covid-19 races its way across Africa, there are two stories happening at once. The first is… Continue Reading
By Karen McVeigh – The Guardian Coronavirus highlights weakness of food and health systems, as Global Nutrition Report finds one in nine of world’s population is hungry An overhaul of the world’s food and health systems is needed to tackle… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute A belief in far-fetched ideas that help us make sense of crises ultimately feed regressive and right-wing politics. A mysterious new video documentary, slickly produced, and offering answers to the coronavirus pandemic, has been… Continue Reading
