The Economist The flow of people, trade and capital will be slowed Even before the pandemic, globalisation was in trouble. The open system of trade that had dominated the world economy for decades had been damaged by the financial crash and the Sino-American trade war.
By Karen McVeigh – The Guardian Coronavirus highlights weakness of food and health systems, as Global Nutrition Report finds one in nine of world’s population is hungry An overhaul of the world’s food and health systems is needed to tackle malnutrition, a “threat multiplier”…
Robert Reich* – Newsweek No other nation has endured as much death from COVID-19 nor nearly as a high a death rate as has the United States. With 4.25 percent of the world population, America has the tragic distinction of accounting for about 30 percent of pandemic deaths…
By Timothy Egan * – The New York Times Will American prestige ever recover? In 1847, members of the Choctaw Nation sent relief money across the Atlantic to a starving Ireland — something the Irish, who lost more than a million people in a famine made worse by British…
Yanis Varoufakis and David McWilliams – The Guardian Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams on the hope for a global new deal David McWilliams: I think it is fair to say that capitalism – in the course of this unprecedented crisis…
By Bill Blain* – The Morning Porridge “Let us sing more cheerful songs, more songs full of joy!” I am wondering if my FT App is broken? I opened it this morning and the front pages of the Pink Un didn’t rate the German Constitutional Court’s stab in the back of the ECB an…
By Daniel Villarreal – Newsweek Dr. Anthony Fauci, the scientific face of America’s pandemic response, dismissed the theory that coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, contradicting the president and his Secretary of State in an escalating confrontation with China. “The best…
By Ernesto Londoño*, Letícia Casado and Manuela Andreoni – The New York Times A flailing leader has given Brazil’s generals an opening to insert themselves onto the front lines of politics. RIO DE JANEIRO — Jair Bolsonaro ascended to Brazil’s presidency with…
By Ellen Brown* – Creative Common The new terms could be harnessed for local governments to own and operate their own banks. Congress seems to be at war with the states.
Hannah Friedman* -Newsweek Americans Want the Right to Be Safe Across the country, we’ve been bombarded with pictures and videos of extremists storming state capitols, cradling guns and badgering the rest of us about their idea of “freedom.” They claim to speak for all…
