The economist The economic crisis will expose a decade’s worth of corporate fraud Downturns are accounting crooks’ worst enemy When bernie madoff owned up to a $65bn Ponzi scheme in December 2008, it was not out of guilt. He knew the game was up.
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 Neil Baron* – Newsweek As Dr. Anthony Fauci has said, it didn’t have to be this bad in the U.S. The world’s richest country with the strongest economy and a population of 330 million people has more coronavirus cases and deaths from COVID-19 than any other country, including…
Hartung and Ben Freeman (*) – The Nation Arms industry lobbyists are addressing this pandemic and preparing for the next by pushing weapons sales. There’s a battle brewing for the future of national security spending. On one side, there’s a growing bipartisan consensus that the…
The Economist Leaders are enjoying a short-term boost during the coronavirus crisis. That may not last FEW WOULD envy their political leaders at times like this.
Kannan* These are not normal times for any country in this world. In one swoop Covid-19 virus has proved how fast it can globalize and integrate all countries and people, but in a disastrous way.
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Apr 15 2020 (IPS) – President Donald Trump’s threat to abruptly cut all US funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) has been described as ‘reckless and deadly”—particularly at a time when the Geneva-based UN agency was engaged in an uphill…
By Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written to two United Nations special rapporteurs asking them to formally condemn governments that have violated the right to information in connection with the coronavirus epidemic, thereby putting public…
By Greg Sargent* – The Washington Post President Trump is expected to move this week to curb U.S. funding for the World Health Organization, after raging at the WHO for accepting China’s initial downplaying of coronavirus. It’s clear the WHO will be a fat…
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…
