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Health

WHO warns European governments of Covid spike if curbs are eased...

By Jon Henley Apr. 29, 2021 The World Health Organization has warned European governments that relaxing Covid restrictions too soon could cause cases to spiral again,...

The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing

by Vijay Prashad April 26, 2021 For Ashish Yechury (1986-2021), journalist Photograph Source: Gwydion M. Williams – CC BY 2.0 It is difficult to overstate the grip of...

German government proposes more rights for vaccinated people: What you need...

26 April 2021 On Monday Chancellor Angela Merkel and Germany’s 16 state premiers will discuss whether those who have been fully vaccinated should receive more...

Earth Abuse and the Next Pandemic

by Stan Cox * April 21, 2021 photo:“Human Miasma” by Priti Gulati Cox: embroidery and graphite on khadi fabric. Humanity’s transgression of ecological limits has caused widespread...

How the Pandemic Laid Bare the Cruelties of Capitalism

By Kenn Orphan * April 9, 2021 Photograph Source: Levon Avdoyan – CC BY 2.0 One thing this pandemic has demonstrated in stark terms is class struggle....

‘Invisible killer’: fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research...

Pollution from power plants, vehicles and other sources accounted for one in five of all deaths that year, more detailed analysis reveals By Oliver Milman ...

How Taiwan triumphed over Covid as the UK faltered

Taipei’s success shows lives might have been saved had the UK government acted differently by Emma Graham-Harrison and Helen Davidson Mar. 24, 2021 Along central Taipei’s busy...

Cuban Socialist Internationalist Medicine Puts Capitalist Countries to Shame Black Agenda...

22 Mar 2021 So few of its own citizens have contracted Covid-19 – less than 300 -- that Cuba must test its vaccines in other...

France takes aim at Germany and other EU states for not...

2 April 2021 France on Friday took aim at the failure of some EU countries to rapidly ratify an emergency programme for the bloc's coronavirus-hit...

The EU falls behind America

by Thomas Fazi 31March 2021 Paschal Donohoe, the Irish finance minister and president of the Eurogroup, has written a preposterous article in the Financial Times...