By Amy Goodman – Democracy Now! (*) World-renowned political dissident, linguist and author. He is a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for more…
By Jan Lundius* Epidemic diseases are not random events that afflict societies capriciously and without warning, on the contrary, every society produces its own specific vulnerabilities. To study them is to understand the importance of a society’s structure, its standard of…
By Neil Baron* – Newsweek As Dr. Anthony Fauci has said, it didn’t have to be this bad in the U.S. The world’s richest country with the strongest economy and a population of 330 million people has more coronavirus cases and deaths from COVID-19 than any other country, including…
The Economist Leaders are enjoying a short-term boost during the coronavirus crisis. That may not last FEW WOULD envy their political leaders at times like this.
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Apr 15 2020 (IPS) – President Donald Trump’s threat to abruptly cut all US funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) has been described as ‘reckless and deadly”—particularly at a time when the Geneva-based UN agency was engaged in an uphill…
By Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written to two United Nations special rapporteurs asking them to formally condemn governments that have violated the right to information in connection with the coronavirus epidemic, thereby putting public…
By Greg Sargent* – The Washington Post President Trump is expected to move this week to curb U.S. funding for the World Health Organization, after raging at the WHO for accepting China’s initial downplaying of coronavirus. It’s clear the WHO will be a fat…
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio* CASAPROTA, Rieti, Italy – The letter of 7 April 2020 calling for immediate international action to address issues arising from the Covid-19 crisis sent to the G20 by more than 200 former world leaders, leading economists and global health experts…
By Alina Das* – The Nation Covid-19 makes it clear that our fates are intertwined As our public health infrastructure buckles under the pressure of Covid-19, billions of federal dollars are flowing to the Department of Homeland Security for civil immigration enforcement…
Justin Spike – insighthungary 444 In the first weeks of March, as it became increasingly clear that Hungary would not be spared from the alarmingly rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the Hungarian government under Viktor Orbán remained indecisive. Buoyed by…
