In confronting the
coronavirus pandemic, it is striking that President Trump, who normally
likes to be seen as The Man in Charge, driving events, has instead
dragged his feet when pressed to take decisive, radical measures that
most experts...
The coronavirus attack has so far been much less deadly than the Spanish flu of a century ago. That had affected 500 million people worldwide, about 27 per cent of the world’s population of the time, and...
By Joseph A Lewnard and Nathan C Lo
The Lancet, March 23, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30190-0
On Dec 31, 2019, the WHO China Country Office received notice of a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province.1
The...
on Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19
When trying to interpret, understand and analyze the daily flow of news, I tend to locate what is happening against the background of two distinctive but intersecting models of how capitalism works....
On November 10, Bolivia’s
President Evo Morales Ayma was removed from office. Technically Morales resigned, but the
conditions for his resignation had been set by the Bolivian oligarchy (egged on
for thirteen years by the United States government, as Noam Chomsky and...
There is an inherent bestiality in the politics of the Americas that
signals coup, assassination and disruption. No state is ever allowed to
go through what is weakly called a transition, except over corpses,
tortures and morgues. When a...
These are uncertain
times with trade wars, regional conflicts and increased abuse of human
and minority rights pockmarking the transition from a
unipolar to a multipolar world. What may be potentially the most
dangerous casualty of the transition is...
The Arab sheikhs who instigated the US-Iran standoff have heard the African proverb, ‘When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers’. But they chose to ignore it. The assumption in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi was that President Trump’s...
A recent interview in which Baloch National Movement chairman Khalil Baloch legitimized recent militant attacks on Iranian, Chinese and Pakistani targets is remarkable less for what he said and more for the fact that his remarks were published by...
We won’t be erased or airbrushed out of history. Even though there appears to be no life in anything resembling a vibrant antiwar movement, especially on college campuses, the endless wars the U.S. now fights go on with lives lost and...
