The Economist How the world’s most powerful country is handling covid-19 Contrary to what many Americans think, the death rate in America is about the same as in Europe America has passed a grim milestone: 100,000 deaths from a novel coronavirus that began to spread half a…
By Gregg Gonsalves* – The Nation Just because President Trump will do nothing doesn’t mean we won’t keep asking What’s going on in the United States? Across the country, all states have begun to reopen, some more quickly, some more slowly than others.
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Even in the midst of the pandemic, the rich are getting richer and bolder in their fight against working Americans. The American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Michael Strain wrote an op-ed in the New York Times recently…
By Democracy Now! Guests : Michael Baker, professor of public health at the University of Otago in Wellington, New Zealand.
The Economist They are blunt instruments that can cause immense harm. Time to be more discriminating Since china locked down the city of Wuhan on January 23rd, over a third of the world’s population has at one time or another been shut away at home.
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…
By Jeet Heer* – The Nation Sarah Cooper has cracked the Trump code with pandemic pantomimes Sarah Cooper has become the breakout star of the pandemic by being the first comedian to figure out that Donald Trump’s absurd words are best mocked not by exaggeration but by exact…
Nesrine Malik* – The Guardian The government seems unable to take the right decision unless it is subjected to a campaign of public shaming The first two doctors to die of Covid-19 on the NHS frontline were born in Sudan. In the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, there is a loan shark…
By Bob Dreyfuss* – The Nation The current administration is smearing China in the same way Bush fabricated intelligence on Iraq. There’s a meme that appears now and then on Facebook and other social media: “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.
By Daniel Boffey , the Guardian’s Brussels bureau chief Exclusive: ‘The question is how big,’ says Dr Andrea Ammon, who thinks March skiing breaks were pivotal to spread The prospect of a second wave of coronavirus infection across Europe is no longer a distant…
