By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute The protests are a form of white privilege in action as the virus disproportionately infects and kills African Americans and people of color. When the coronavirus pandemic was first declared, Americans dutifully stayed at home…
InsightHungary!!! (*) – Budapest Hungary has ceased to be a democracy and can now be qualified as a “hybrid regime”, according to the 2020 Nations in Transit report from US-based NGO Freedom House. The report, which examined 29 former Soviet and Eastern Bloc countries…
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 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…
The Economist Brazil’s justice minister storms out, calling the president a scofflaw ON APRIL 19TH Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, climbed onto a lorry outside army headquarters in Brasília to fire up protesters who were calling for a shutdown of Congress and the Supreme…
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…
By Ryan Goodman and Danielle Schulkin(*) – The New York Times The president and senior officials manipulated Americans and played down the severity of the pandemic The strongest critics of the Trump’s administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic point to…
By Aarti Narsee* JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Apr 27 2020 (IPS) – Censorship, smear campaigns and harassment. These are just some of the daily struggles that media professionals are facing in Hungary.
By Allyson Chiu, Katie Shepherd and Brittany Shammas -The Washington Post After a presentation Thursday that touched on the disinfectants that can kill the novel coronavirus on surfaces and in the air, President Trump pondered whether those chemicals could be used to fight the…
