By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures A few weeks ago, I laid out a model for thinking about the coronavirus crisis. I argued that there were four structures operating: medical, economic, social and military, with the political structure attempting to coordinate all four…
by Tyler Durden – ZEROHEDGE (*) Authored by Tuomas Malinen (**) via GnSEconomics.com Country after country has reported extremely dark economic numbers. The gigantic jobless claims, 6.6 million from the U.S. last week, are just the tip of the iceberg.
By Beatrix Hoffman* – Newsweek Even as they put their own lives on the line, health care workers are confronted with another, agonizing fear: that they will have to make choices about who lives and who dies. Rationing of masks and ventilators has become an increasing reality…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* 6 April 2020 – Today’s cultural, political and ideological debates are imbued with a strange opacity, the result of their remove from the concrete day-to-day experience of the vast majority of people — ordinary citizens, or la gente de a pie, as…
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 fellow EU countries. A group of…
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 I don’t know how to close a border that is…
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 initial handling of COVID-19—even spreading a…
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 international…
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 feared. The collapse of financial…
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…
