By Riccardo Petrella* – Wall Street International Magazine “No one will be left behind” In the name of “national” health security, the dominant groups have taken measures that run counter to the much-vaunted objective of “no one will be left behind”. In reality, “vaccine…
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan (*) – Democracy Now! “I’ve personally received more doses of a Covid-19 vaccine than 130 countries,” Dr. Craig Spencer writes, about the two vaccine shots he recently got as an emergency room doctor. In 2014, he contracted ebola while…
By Jedediah Britton-Purdy, Amy Kapczynski, David Singh Grewal (*) – Boston Review If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions. We live in an era of intersecting crises—some new, some old but newly…
Viewpoint by Ramesh Jaura* – IDN-InDepthNews BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) — Like the United Nations, the global community-based Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is a beacon of hope to a world shrouded by dark clouds of unprecedented crises. An international…
By Alexis Papazoglou* – The Guardian The shortfall in supply has put the EU and the UK at loggerheads, but ethical principles could reveal a solution In normal times, a row between the EU, the UK and a private company over the timely delivery of a contract would be of interest…
Michael Baker and Martin McKee (*) – The Guardian Here are 16 reasons why Countries trying to eliminate the virus have been far more successful and economically better off than those that have tried to suppress it The past year of Covid-19 has taught us that it is the behaviour…
By Agora of the Earth’s inhabitants There is an urgent need to remedy the catastrophic moral bankruptcy of an unjust world in which vaccines and health are not guaranteed to all the inhabitants of the Earth. On Monday 18 January, the Director-General of the WHO declared…
By Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad (*) – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before the calamity led to the deaths by asphyxiation of…
By Hall Gardner* It can still happen here! The January 6 siege of the Capitol—the very symbol of American Democracy—was like a scene out of the novel, It Can’t Happen Here, written by Sinclair Lewis in 1935.
By Nomi Prins* -TomDispatch.com / The Nation The US government’s lopsided response to Covid-19 has only worsened astronomical levels of inequality. Sometimes things make sense only when seen through a magnifying lens.
