By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation In one week, he threatened to cut off US funding to the WHO, touted an unproven Covid-19 cure, and fired the watchdog overseeing the congressional bailout The Signal: Trump’s ongoing effort to deflect all blame for the administration’s…
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Roberto Savio, Rosa María Artal, Emilio Muñoz, María Novo, Vicente Larraga and Enrique Santiago (*) It has become obvious that the G20 –founded in 2008 to reduce the scandal produced by the autarchic G6, G7 and G8– has been a complete failure, since…
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…
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 la gente de a pie, as…
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?
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 I don’t know how to close a border that is…
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…
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…
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 initial handling of COVID-19—even spreading a…
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.
