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 crisis in…
Yanis Varoufakis and David McWilliams – The Guardian Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams on the hope for a global new deal David McWilliams: I think it is fair to say that capitalism – in the course of this unprecedented crisis…
FROM PILLAGE TO SECURITY. LIFE FOR ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH Three scourges are devastating the life of the Earth’s Inhabitants – the Covid-19 pandemic ( more than 230,000 deaths).
Riccardo Petrella* “Science (and economics) for the health of the earth’s inhabitants.” For a common, public, free worldwide coronavirus vaccine. Proposal for a transnational alliance.
By Jan Lundius* Epidemic diseases are not random events that afflict societies capriciously and without warning, on the contrary, every society produces its own specific vulnerabilities. To study them is to understand the importance of a society’s structure, its standard of…
By Francesco Martone* The crisis triggered by COVID-19 is challenging the very meaning of coexistence and cohabitation and redesigning the boundaries of public space in an absolutely unprecedented way, with unpredictable results Measures to contain free movement and…
Riccardo Petrella* I hope not. Guido Viale has written some wise things about this, explaining why a “return to normal” would be a return to catastrophe.
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.
By Riccardo Petrella* Public water. Starting from the universal public security of water, the first world common good for life.
Arthur Lyon Dahl* – Seán Ó Siochrú* Should we thank God for the Pandemic? It may seem weird to be thankful for a catastrophe.
