Civil rights

Solidarity Is Our Silver Linings Pandemic Playbook

By Gregg Gonsalves* – The Nation Just because President Trump will do nothing doesn’t mean we won’t keep asking What’s going on in the United States? Across the country, all states have begun to reopen, some more quickly, some more slowly than others.

Corruption

For America’s Wealthiest, the Pandemic Is a Time to Profit

By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Even in the midst of the pandemic, the rich are getting richer and bolder in their fight against working Americans. The American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Michael Strain wrote an op-ed in the New York Times recently…

Economy / Finance

Lifting lockdowns: the when, why and how

The Economist They are blunt instruments that can cause immense harm. Time to be more discriminating Since china locked down the city of Wuhan on January 23rd, over a third of the world’s population has at one time or another been shut away at home.

Environment

Ensuring Biodiversity Now will Prevent Pandemics Later

By Samira Sadeque – IPS A future repetition of the current COVID-19 pandemic is preventable with massive cooperation on international and local levels and by ensuring biological diversity preservation around the world, experts recently said. How to prevent the current crisis in…

Health

The Best Way to Lampoon Trump: His Own Words

By  Jeet Heer* – The Nation Sarah Cooper has cracked the Trump code with pandemic pantomimes Sarah Cooper has become the breakout star of the pandemic by being the first comedian to figure out that Donald Trump’s absurd words are best mocked not by exaggeration but by exact…

English

DEVNET cooperates with Vietnamese Colleges

Reception of Technical Interns in beauty industry by DEVNET JAPAN DEVNET International (DEVNET), NGO of United Nations ECOSOC cooperated with Hanoi Polytechnic College(HPC) in Vietnam toward Asian economic development on 20th March. DEVNET receives graduates of Hanoi Polytechnic…

History

Internal Migration: A Literary/Historical View

Opinion /  Jan Lundius, PhD STOCKHOLM / ROME, May 22 2020 (IPS) – It is easy to generalize about migration. Populist politicians often portray migrants as strangers and ”our” homeland as a stable entity, rooted in an old agricultural society. When they do so they tend to forget…