The Economist How to reduce the mental trauma of covid-19 A few cheap steps can make a big difference In ecuador people are still searching for the bodies of relatives who died of covid-19 four months ago. In Italy a boy begged a priest to forgive the “sin” of lowering his…
By Roberto Savio* On August 23, a respected Brazilian polling institute found that the country’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, enjoys an approval rating of 51 percent, the highest since he was elected. Brazil ranks second as the country with the highest number of coronavirus deaths…
By Ellen Brown* – Unz Review Mayhem in Melbourne On August 2, lockdown measures were implemented in Melbourne, Australia, that were so draconian that Australian news commentator Alan Jones said on Sky News: “People are entitled to think there is an ‘agenda to destroy…
By Angel Mendoza PARIS, Aug 25 2020 (IPS) – The voices of indigenous people worldwide are being silenced and their lives made invisible. Stewards of the earth, they are left at the fringes of public discourse in countries around the globe.
The Economist They are ubiquitous, diverse and very powerful I – The outsiders inside Humans are lucky to live a hundred years. Oak trees may live a thousand; mayflies, in their adult form, a single day.
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute The fact that the president and his supporters want us to tolerate hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths from the pandemic reveals their true nature When President Donald Trump was challenged by Axios…
The Economist Far better to spend far too much Consider the following thought experiment. If you fail to eat a pizza within an hour, you will die from hunger.
By Eric Alterman* – The Nation The newspaper’s own reporters are challenging the Trumpian opinion section In 1981, Ben Bagdikian, a veteran journalist and former dean of the University of California, Berkeley, journalism school, tried to explain why The Wall Street Journal…
By BBC News Facebook and Twitter have penalised Donald Trump and his campaign for posts in which the president claimed children were “almost immune” to coronavirus. Facebook deleted the post – a clip from an interview Mr Trump gave to Fox News – saying it contained “harmful…
Story by Ed Yong, Staff writer at The Atlantic A virus has brought the most powerful country in the world to its knees. How did it come to this?
