By Bob Dreyfuss* – The Nation The current administration is smearing China in the same way Bush fabricated intelligence on Iraq. There’s a meme that appears now and then on Facebook and other social media: “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.
By Daniel Boffey , the Guardian’s Brussels bureau chief Exclusive: ‘The question is how big,’ says Dr Andrea Ammon, who thinks March skiing breaks were pivotal to spread The prospect of a second wave of coronavirus infection across Europe is no longer a distant…
By Vijay Prashad*) – Independent Media Institute On March 20, just after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic on March 11, the U.S. National Security Council (NSC) sent a cable to U.S.
The Economist Extremists see the pandemic as the prelude to the apocalyptic “boogaloo” IN MORE THAN 30 of America’s 50 state capitals angry crowds have been gathering to protest against stay-at-home orders. Buoyed by tweets from President Donald Trump encouraging them to…
By Ellen Brown* – Common Dreams Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities. When the Dodd Frank Act was passed in 2010, President Obama triumphantly declared, “No more bailouts!” But…
By Marshall Auerback* – Independent Media Institute Germany’s highest court issued a ruling that could threaten the existence of the euro with a constitutional court decision that said the European Central Bank’s bond-buying operations exceeded the ECB’s legal remit, and…
By David Nabarro and Joe Colombano (*) GENEVA, May 19 2020 (IPS) – When the COVID-19 virus travelled from Wuhan, China halfway across the world through Europe, the Americas and beyond in the space of a few weeks, it gave us proof, if one was ever needed, of how tightly…
Analysis|Stanly Johny* – The Hindi Earlier this month, the U.S. imposed visa restrictions on the Chinese journalists working in the country, limiting their work period to 90 days Relations between the U.S. and China plunged to a nadir in recent weeks. On May 15, President Donald…
The Economist The flow of people, trade and capital will be slowed Even before the pandemic, globalisation was in trouble. The open system of trade that had dominated the world economy for decades had been damaged by the financial crash and the Sino-American trade war.
By Nanjala Nyabola* – The Nation If reporting doesn’t improve, the creativity and agency of swaths of humanity will be lost to history As Covid-19 races its way across Africa, there are two stories happening at once. The first is of governments using their armies and militarized…
