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
Robert Reich* – Newsweek No other nation has endured as much death from COVID-19 nor nearly as a high a death rate as has the United States. With 4.25 percent of the world population, America has the tragic distinction of… Continue Reading
By Timothy Egan * – The New York Times Will American prestige ever recover? In 1847, members of the Choctaw Nation sent relief money across the Atlantic to a starving Ireland — something the Irish, who lost more than a million people… Continue Reading
By !!444!!! InsightHungary!!! (*) – Budapest Hungary has ceased to be a democracy and can now be qualified as a “hybrid regime”, according to the 2020 Nations in Transit report from US-based NGO Freedom House. The report, which examined 29… Continue Reading
By Aarti Narsee* JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Apr 27 2020 (IPS) – Censorship, smear campaigns and harassment. These are just some of the daily struggles that media professionals are facing in Hungary. And now the threat of jail time may be… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) World-renowned political dissident, linguist and author. He is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught… Continue Reading
By Neil Baron* – Newsweek As Dr. Anthony Fauci has said, it didn’t have to be this bad in the U.S. The world’s richest country with the strongest economy and a population of 330 million people has more coronavirus cases… Continue Reading
The Economist Leaders are enjoying a short-term boost during the coronavirus crisis. That may not last FEW WOULD envy their political leaders at times like this. The battle with covid-19 is one with an implacable enemy in which the politicians… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Apr 15 2020 (IPS) – President Donald Trump’s threat to abruptly cut all US funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) has been described as ‘reckless and deadly”—particularly at a time when the Geneva-based UN… Continue Reading
By Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written to two United Nations special rapporteurs asking them to formally condemn governments that have violated the right to information in connection with the coronavirus epidemic, thereby putting public health… Continue Reading
By Greg Sargent* – The Washington Post President Trump is expected to move this week to curb U.S. funding for the World Health Organization, after raging at the WHO for accepting China’s initial downplaying of coronavirus. It’s clear the WHO will be a fat… Continue Reading
By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation In one week, he threatened to cut off US funding to the WHO, touted an unproven Covid-19 cure, and fired the watchdog overseeing the congressional bailout The Signal: Trump’s ongoing effort to deflect all… Continue Reading
Justin Spike – insighthungary 444 In the first weeks of March, as it became increasingly clear that Hungary would not be spared from the alarmingly rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the Hungarian government under Viktor Orbán remained indecisive. Buoyed… Continue Reading
