By Pietro Garau* The Democratic establishment has concentrated political warfare on one goal: the removal of Donald J, Trump. It is an obsessive fixation, and a convenient one.
Asoka Bandarage* – Asia Times The number of people infected and dying from the Covid-19 pandemic is increasing exponentially. A massive loss of humanity, as occurred during the “Spanish” flu of 1918 that killed 50 million to 100 million, is feared. The collapse of financial…
By Tim Schwab* – The Nation Bill Gates Gives to the Rich (Including Himself). His renowned charitable activities seem to serve mainly private interests, namely his own. A Nation investigation illustrates the moral hazards surrounding the Gates Foundation’s $50 billion…
By Ellen Brown* -The Web of Debt, Blog In what is being called the worst financial crisis since 1929, the US stock market has lost a third of its value in the space of a month, wiping out all of its gains of the last three years. When the Federal Reserve tried to…
By Democracy Now! * Author, activist and journalist Naomi Klein says the coronavirus crisis, like earlier ones, could be a catalyst to shower aid on the wealthiest interests in society, including those most responsible for our current vulnerabilities, while offering next to…
By John Scales Avery* The urgent need for a vaccine Public health experts say that if the COVID-19 epidemic is not successfully contained, it could become a global pandemic, perhaps spreading to 80% of the world’s population. With a 1% mortality rate, this would mean that 70…
By Antonio Martins* – Outras Palavras, Brasil Panic in the markets: the global crisis shows a tendency to be prolonged and deep. The “Davos Class” will respond with more inequality and less democracy.
By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute The virus has starkly exposed the dangers of offshoring all production; we have a whole series of shortages that can only be mitigated by bringing some production back home. The coronavirus will eventually pass, but the same…
By Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano (*) – Independent Media Institute Elon Musk, the head of Tesla, wants to build an electric car factory in Brazil. He was supposed to meet Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, in Miami in early March, but he was too busy; instead…
Posen* – Boston Review Despite claims to the contrary, the Trump administration wants regime change in Iran and is risking a full-scale war in order to get it The Prussian strategic theorist Carl von Clausewitz once observed that “The aggressor is always peace-loving . . . he…
