Health
EVOLVING MARKETS IN METAPHYSICAL RECONSTRUCTION
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media The earliest markets for metaphysical reconstruction evolved continually from changing belief systems, religions, creation stories, cultural fashions, and later from science fiction, futures forecasting scenarios. These changing…
The Institutional Crisis and COVID-19
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures In “The Storm Before the Calm,” I wrote of two crises coming to a head in the 2020s: a socio-economic crisis and an institutional crisis. The latter has hit us like a hurricane.
The Unholy Alliance between Authoritarianism and Big Tech
By Maria Ressa* (Brief intervention at the webinar “From Repression to Resistance: Combatting the Lawfare against Press Freedom,” Manila, Nov 21, 2020) On June 15, 2020, I sat in a decrepit, windowless courtroom and listened to Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa deliver her…
Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data?
By Tim Schwab* – The Nation Thanks to the Microsoft founder’s support, the IHME can make its own rules about how to track global health. That’s a problem.
Global health : Will it become the first “res publica” of the humanity?
By Riccardo Petrella* – Wall Street International The UN General Assembly has convened a Special Session on the Covid-19 pandemic at the level of Heads of State and Government on 3 and 4 December next. It took more than a year of discussions to overcome the opposition of certain…
Vaccine hesitancy is not new – history tells us we should listen, not condemn
By Caitjan Gainty / Agnes Arnold-Forster (*) – The Conversation Following the good news from three separate COVID-19 vaccine trials, optimism that life might be “back to normal by spring” is running high. There are many reasons to temper this optimism as there is a lot we don’t…
Biden will have the presidency. But Republicans still have the power
By Prof. Adam Tooze* With a slim majority in Congress, the president-elect lacks a solid base. The past teaches us what may happen President Trump’s efforts to overturn the outcome of the 3 November election, which appear to be over, provided his opponents with a source of…
The EU between marital squabble and divorce — the budget and Brexit
By Cornelia Meyer* As though dealing with a pandemic was not enough, there are more troubles ahead for the EU. The bifurcation was around Poland and Hungary vetoing the budget on account of making disbursement of funds conditional to the rule of law.
Repeating the appeal: A common global public policy against the Covid-19
Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth Dear Reader of Othernews, As the founder and Publisher of Othernews, I very rarely use ON for my ideas or ideals. I made an exception when I sent you the appeal to underwrite to the Secretary General of the UN, because Covid-19 is…