by: PATRICK COCKBURN Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The US may be reaching its “Chernobyl moment” as it fails to lead in combating the coronavirus epidemic. As with the nuclear accident in the Soviet Union in […]
by LAURA FLANDERS “A bridge is no stronger than its weakest part.” Former slave turned educator Anna Julia Cooper uttered those very contemporary-sounding words back in 1892. The US didn’t heed them then; we haven’t heeded […]
by THOMAS KLIKAUER Photo: privately owned by the author and the man in the picture. On 31st March 2020, www.worldometers.info calculated the global death toll from Corona tallied 38,000. Among comparable European countries, Italy (population 60 million) had 11,600 Corona deaths, Spain (46,6 million) […]
45,000 students told to return, 1900 do, 800 leave after infection goes rampant (Was it God?) Medical professionals, college faculty and local city officials were outraged that the school would even consider re-opening while restrictions […]
By: ILANA MERCER When in doubt as to just how remiss your government was, see what Israel has done to protect its nationals from the coronavirus pandemic. Taking its cues from the American Left, the […]
bY: ISRAEL SHAMIR In these Corona times, I often listen to Monty Python’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. This black cloud has a silver lining. With the virus roaming outside, teenagers deign to […]
[Portions of this article were drawn from various sources as cited. However, additional portions seem to have been quoted from Larry Romanoff at Global Research without proper citation.] It does seem farfetched, doesn’t it? That the United States will […]
By: JONATHAN COOK If a disease can teach wisdom beyond our understanding of how precarious and precious life is, the coronavirus has offered two lessons. The first is that in a globalised world our lives […]
By: C.J. HOPKINS Let’s try a little thought experiment. Just for fun. To pass the time while we’re indefinitely locked down inside our homes, compulsively checking the Covid-19 “active cases” and “total death” count, washing […]
By Burak Bekdi MERS coronavirus particles on camel epithelial cells, photo by NIAID in collaboration with Colorado State University via Wikimedia Commons BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,501, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey appears to be handling the […]