Coronavirus
After Bloody Day, Coronavirus Meltdown Continues. Big Danger: Italian and Eurobanks...
by Yves Smith
March 12, 2020
There are so many wheels coming off that analysts and the business press is on coronavirus crisis overload. And...
US Sees Coronavirus as a New Way to Pressure Iran
Deaths could take a toll on the Iranian government
Posted on March 15, 2020
For the US government, killing Iranians, particularly those with government positions, is...
U.S. sanctions ‘severely hamper’ Iran coronavirus fight, Rouhani says
March 14, 2020
DUBAI (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani said Iran’s fight against the coronavirus was being “severely hampered” by U.S. sanctions, as state television...
Israel to use ‘anti-terrorism’ tech to monitor infected citizens, as Netanyahu...
15 Mar, 2020
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said he was given the go-ahead to deploy invasive digital surveillance tools to track coronavirus patients, sparking...
GMB urge government to mobilise private hospital beds ‘rent free’
By Peter Lazenby
March 15, 2020
EALTH privateers should provide hospital beds “rent free” during the coronavirus outbreak, general union GMB said today.
Britain has only a...
Coronavirus is coming, hide the ballots! Calls to cancel campaigns &...
By Helen Buyniski
13 Mar, 2020
American establishment mouthpieces are demanding voters radically rethink the 2020 election, citing coronavirus as a reason to switch to...
Inoculating Against Globalization: Coronavirus and the Search for Alternatives
By Sam Gindin
March 12, 2020
Social developments constantly surprise. The latest anxieties over the economic contradictions of extreme globalization haven’t been triggered by a trade...
Even while canceling mass gatherings, the U.K. is still aiming for...
By Katherine Dunn and Jeremy Kahn
March 14, 2020
The U.K. will cancel mass gatherings beginning next weekend, The Guardian newspaper reported Friday night, after a...
Plagued by Trumpism
by Joseph Stiglitz
12th March 2020
As an educator, I’m always looking for ‘teachable moments’—current events that illustrate and reinforce the principles on which I’ve been...
Big Banks Call for Wall Street Deregulation to “Fight Coronavirus”
As Naomi Klein laid out in her bestseller “Shock Doctrine,” the wealthy elite use the confusion caused by economic and other disasters to quickly...