By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation In one week, he threatened to cut off US funding to the WHO, touted an unproven Covid-19 cure, and fired the watchdog overseeing the congressional bailout The Signal: Trump’s ongoing effort to deflect all blame for the administration’s…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures A few weeks ago, I laid out a model for thinking about the coronavirus crisis. I argued that there were four structures operating: medical, economic, social and military, with the political structure attempting to coordinate all four…
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Roberto Savio, Rosa María Artal, Emilio Muñoz, María Novo, Vicente Larraga and Enrique Santiago (*) It has become obvious that the G20 –founded in 2008 to reduce the scandal produced by the autarchic G6, G7 and G8– has been a complete failure, since…
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…
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research* – The Fifteenth Newsletter (2020) Days, weeks, months, an indeterminate amount of time as the world seems paralysed by the journey of SARS-CoV-2. The lack of certainty increases the anxiety.
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media Now everyone and every organization on the planet is going virtual, we can observe some simple rules and etiquette in all our online communications, so as to preserve our internet and ensure priority access for our children trying…
by Tyler Durden – ZEROHEDGE (*) Authored by Tuomas Malinen (**) via GnSEconomics.com Country after country has reported extremely dark economic numbers. The gigantic jobless claims, 6.6 million from the U.S. last week, are just the tip of the iceberg.
By Beatrix Hoffman* – Newsweek Even as they put their own lives on the line, health care workers are confronted with another, agonizing fear: that they will have to make choices about who lives and who dies. Rationing of masks and ventilators has become an increasing reality…
By Vijay Prashad, Weiyan Zhu and Du Xiaojun (*) – Independent Media Institute In the early weeks when the virus emerged in Wuhan, the Chinese government neither suppressed evidence nor did their warning systems fail. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a…
