By Karen McVeigh – The Guardian Coronavirus highlights weakness of food and health systems, as Global Nutrition Report finds one in nine of world’s population is hungry An overhaul of the world’s food and health systems is needed to tackle malnutrition, a “threat multiplier”…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute A belief in far-fetched ideas that help us make sense of crises ultimately feed regressive and right-wing politics. A mysterious new video documentary, slickly produced, and offering answers to the coronavirus…
By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation “Immigrant workers give life, give a pulse, to our economy. We need to be taken into account.” “I don’t have work right now.
By Alana Lentin* – The Guardian The BAME experience during this pandemic tells us that race is not about individual morality, it profoundly shapes people’s lives As coronavirus continues to rampage across the globe, it has become apparent that, while biologically the virus may…
By Democracy Now! In Washington, D.C., President Trump clashed with Chinese American CBS reporter Weijia Jiang when she confronted him over the issue of testing. Weijia Jiang: “You have said many times that the U.S. is doing far better than any other country when it comes to…
Robert Reich* – Newsweek No other nation has endured as much death from COVID-19 nor nearly as a high a death rate as has the United States. With 4.25 percent of the world population, America has the tragic distinction of accounting for about 30 percent of pandemic deaths…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Medical research is always involved in the important work of understanding disease and the human body. It is now at the center of a global crisis whose evolution can define the international system, the internal systems of nation-states…
By Timothy Egan * – The New York Times Will American prestige ever recover? In 1847, members of the Choctaw Nation sent relief money across the Atlantic to a starving Ireland — something the Irish, who lost more than a million people in a famine made worse by British…
Abby Maxman* BOSTON, USA, May 11 2020 (IPS) – NGOs, at the international, national – and most of all local – level are on the frontlines every day. I just heard from Oxfam staff in Bangladesh, that when asked whether they were scared to continue our response with the Rohingya…
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…
