(Rob Wallace, a socialist biologist explains the tight links between new viruses, industrial food production, and the profitability of multinational corporations. Yaak Pabst for the German socialist magazine Marx21 spoke to evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace, […]
(Excerpts from an essay in the Chuang blog titled ‘Social Contagion’.) Warmongering, Orientalism, Racism The outbreak has been incorrectly blamed on everything from the conspiratorial and/or accidental release of a virus strain from the Wuhan […]
(Text of an address by Arundhati Roy at a gathering of writers and artists at Jantar Mantar, organised by the Jan Sanskriti Manch) Beloved friends, comrades and my fellow writers, This place where we are […]
31 March 2020 THE attempts to selectively criminalise and communalise an international religious gathering of the Tableeghi Jamaat in Delhi in mid March is extremely condemnable. It is clear that the Central Government had the […]
With 8.3 million inhabitants, Colombia´s capital is the city with the highest infection rate. Colombian protests continued due to the food crisis and lack of governmental help during COVID-19 outbreak across the South American country. RELATED: Colombia: Gunmen Kill […]
“I urged the State Department to adopt the necessary measures to fully fulfill the responsibilities attributed to it by the Vienna Convention and guarantee the full security of the Cuban embassy and the permanent mission […]
Jeanine Añez argues that lawmakers acted on the orders of the Movement Towards Socialism. Bolivia’s Legislative Assembly president Eva Copa Thursday promulgated an electoral law that sets a 90-days term for holding general elections. This decision, however, was […]
By: Ramzy Baroud A Palestinian man wearing a mask as a means of protection against the coronavirus COVID-19, sits on the seashore in Gaza City on March 13, 2020. | Photo: AFP Now that nearly half […]
IsraelIsrael’s Anti-Netanyahu Protesters Demonstrate Despite Pandemic “Let democracy win,” one banner read, while some demonstrators had written “Crime Minister” on their masks, in a reference to Netanyahu’s upcoming trial for corruption. Under strict COVID-19 restrictions, thousands of […]
Lack of access to healthcare, domestic life, education, increased presence online, are among the areas in which children could possibly be harmed. Millions of children worldwide are being vulnerable to countless threats due to the lockdowns arising from […]