By Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu and Du Xiaojun (*) – Independent Media Institute In the early weeks when the virus emerged in Wuhan, the Chinese government neither suppressed evidence nor did their warning systems fail. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a… Continue Reading
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* 6 April 2020 – Today’s cultural, political and ideological debates are imbued with a strange opacity, the result of their remove from the concrete day-to-day experience of the vast majority of people — ordinary citizens, or… Continue Reading
By Selam Gebrekidan* – The New York Times Leaders around the world have passed emergency decrees and legislation expanding their reach during the pandemic. Will they ever relinquish them? LONDON — In Hungary, the prime minister can now rule by… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* The border between the United States and Canada has been closed. I don’t recall that ever happening before; I’m not sure what it is supposed to achieve, given that the coronavirus is rampant in both countries, and… Continue Reading
Opinion, Doug Gordon* – Newsweek “The system was blinking red.” That is what an intelligence official reportedly said about briefings President Donald Trump and congressional leaders received in January about the spread of coronavirus and its potential to become a… Continue Reading
By Jan Zielonka* -Social Europe (London) While initial responses to the coronavirus crisis have favoured national sovereignty and public authority, effective solutions will only emerge from a complex network of multi-level governance. From Madrid to Paris, Berlin to Warsaw, the… Continue Reading
Bonnie Kristian * -Newsweek The deterioration of U.S.-Chinese relations over who is to blame for the novel coronavirus may be a warning of things to come. Beijing has spent recent weeks in a concerted effort to shift blame for its… Continue Reading
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. The latter aspect resides in the reassuring narrative that once Trump is… Continue Reading
By Brian Wong – The Diplomat, Asia-Pacific By shipping medical supplies to European countries, China is seeking to boost its image as a responsible global leader. The COVID-19 outbreak has taken the world by storm, leading to a near-total standstill in… Continue Reading
By Nikki Schwab* – Daily Mail, UK Draft Andrew Cuomo! Democratic twittersphere lights up with demands to make New York governor the party’s 2020 candidate after commanding response to coronavirus put Joe Biden in the shade ‘Draft Andrew Cuomo’ accounts… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Mar 20 2020 (IPS) – The devastating spread of the deadly coronavirus across every continent– with the exception of Antarctica– has triggered a conspiracy theory on social media: what if the virus was really a… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
By Tyler Durden* – ZeroHedge* Authored by Jonathan Turley We recently discussed how an American University professor called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump over his handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Not to be outdone, MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner is… Continue Reading
By The Editorial Board* – The New York Times Tackling the pandemic will require a new, collective way of thinking about public health and society as a whole. In 1941, with war tearing through Europe and Asia and America on… Continue Reading
By Saber Azam* GENEVA, Mar 16 2020 (IPS) – The fourth and last presidential election in Afghanistan on 28 September 2019 was yet another setback to the democratic process. Not only did it take months for the Independent Election Commission… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Since before World War I and throughout the 1970s, the people who controlled oil had a lever for controlling others. Since the 1980s, the equation has shifted; oil producers have become dependent on oil… Continue Reading
By Ben Judah* – The Guardian Leaders in the late Soviet Union wilfully ignored the need for structural reform. The Democratic contender should take note Despite being frail and confused, he won the trust of an oligarchic party nomenklatura in… Continue Reading
Barry R. 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… Continue Reading
