By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute While a public desperate for protection against COVID-19 is quick to shame “vaccine hunters,” the real culprits are the companies refusing to share their publicly funded intellectual property and the governments allowing them… Continue Reading
By Riccardo Petrella* – Wall Street International Magazine “No one will be left behind” In the name of “national” health security, the dominant groups have taken measures that run counter to the much-vaunted objective of “no one will be left… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan (*) – Democracy Now! “I’ve personally received more doses of a Covid-19 vaccine than 130 countries,” Dr. Craig Spencer writes, about the two vaccine shots he recently got as an emergency room doctor. In… Continue Reading
By Peter Molnar* – The Nation The government shut down a station that connected many listeners—particularly the elderly—to their country and the world When the faithful listeners to Klubrádió, a talk radio station that has been a beacon of free speech… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! In a landmark decision, judges at the International Criminal Court say the body has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, opening the door to possible criminal charges against Israel and militant… Continue Reading
By Peter Baker* – The New York Times The most daunting challenge for Mr. Biden in the weeks ahead will be balancing his stated desire for bipartisanship with his sense of urgency. WASHINGTON — In the weeks before taking office,… Continue Reading
By Alexis Papazoglou* – The Guardian The shortfall in supply has put the EU and the UK at loggerheads, but ethical principles could reveal a solution In normal times, a row between the EU, the UK and a private company… Continue Reading
Michael Baker and Martin McKee (*) – The Guardian Here are 16 reasons why Countries trying to eliminate the virus have been far more successful and economically better off than those that have tried to suppress it The past year… Continue Reading
By Agora of the Earth’s inhabitants There is an urgent need to remedy the catastrophic moral bankruptcy of an unjust world in which vaccines and health are not guaranteed to all the inhabitants of the Earth. On Monday 18 January,… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Just about every U.S. president promises a new era of U.S. foreign policy. George W. Bush promised to abolish nation building as a goal. Barack Obama promised to make the world, and particularly the… Continue Reading
By Hall Gardner* It can still happen here! The January 6 siege of the Capitol—the very symbol of American Democracy—was like a scene out of the novel, It Can’t Happen Here, written by Sinclair Lewis in 1935. In the book, the… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor – The Washington Post Israel is the site of what seems to be a remarkable vaccination success story. It leads the world in per capita vaccinations, with more than a million and a half Israelis already having… Continue Reading
By Walden Bello* – Wall Street International Magazine The storming of Capitol shows America has entered the Weimar Era By mid-February 2021, American deaths from Covid-19 may well surpass the country’s 405,400 deaths during the Second World War. By around mid-May,… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Let us try to look at the situation from a distance To write about Venezuela has become extremely difficult. The country has become so polarized, that just two narratives are left. One, that the government has been… Continue Reading
By Débora Leão and Suraj K. Sazawal (*) São Paulo/ Washington DC, Dec 15 2020 (IPS) – Few images better illustrate the recent decline in civil liberties in the United States than that of peaceful protesters near the White House… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* “Vaccinating the world against COVID-19 will be one of the largest mass undertakings in human history, and we will need to move as quickly as the vaccines can be produced”- Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director. UNITED… Continue Reading
By Tim Schwab* – The Nation Thanks to the Microsoft founder’s support, the IHME can make its own rules about how to track global health. That’s a problem. A perennial feature of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the guessing game… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – ScheerPost The Fed’s policy tools – interest rate manipulation, quantitative easing, and “Special Purpose Vehicles” – have all failed to revive local economies suffering from government-mandated shutdowns. . The Fed must rely on private banks to… Continue Reading
By Riccardo Petrella* – Wall Street International The UN General Assembly has convened a Special Session on the Covid-19 pandemic at the level of Heads of State and Government on 3 and 4 December next. It took more than a… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* The recent meeting of the G20 – scheduled to take place in Riyadh but held virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic – has been an eloquent example of how the world is drifting, in a crisis of… Continue Reading
