What will the coronavirus do to Germany's political future?
Victor Grossman | peoplesworld.org | 2020-04-01
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COVID-19: The Capitalist Emperor has no Clothes
Ajamu Baraka | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-01
As the capitalist emperor strolls down the avenue of U.S. public opinion butt-naked but for the first time since the 1930s, more and more people are starting to realize that they were not crazy. The brutal failures of the capitalist system that they saw were not a figment of their imagination or a diversion from …
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Corona and what then?
Victor Grossman | mronline.org | 2020-04-01
Berlin, like many of your hometowns, is a ghost city. Except for those offering groceries, medicines or medical care, everything is shut tight. Luckily, no-one here has to stay inside, we can stroll around outside but, aside from families, we may not "assemble" in groups of more than two (if any cops are around).
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Venezuela Denounces Aggression Against Coast Guard Ship
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-01
Venezuela's Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez Tuesday rejected the attack carried out by the Resolute, a Portuguese-flagged passenger ship, against the Venezuelan coast guard ship Naiguata, which was patrolling northeast of Tortuga Island on Monday. | RELATED: | Venezuela Rejects the Trump Administration's Transition Plan | "Our ship ordered the Resolute to go to…
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When the Invisible Hand Gives You the Finger – Corporate media shrug as elite declare loss of profits worse than loss of lives
Dorothee Benz | fair.org | 2020-04-01
Why the market fails to provide life-saving goods is not a question the New York Times ( 3/26/20) will be asking. | Since the days of Adam Smith, capitalists have been arguing that unfettered markets are the best way to organize the economy. Smith famously said that the rich are "led by an invisible hand" to, "without knowing it, advance the interest of the society." The rise of the welfare state in the wake of the Great Depression tempered such magical thinking for a few decades, but the ascent of neoliberalism in…
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HuffPost just sunk to BBC levels in its Tory boot licking
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-04-01
HuffPost's executive editor's latest article on the government response to coronavirus (Covid-19) was quite something. Because he managed to pump out BBC levels of Tory propaganda. And he also effectively whitewashed the deaths of thousands of chronically ill, disabled, homeless, and sick people over the last decade. | The "Waugh Zone": | Paul Waugh publishes a "daily politics brie…
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Limiting Trump's Screen Time Isn't 'Censorship,' It's Journalism
Neil deMause | fair.org | 2020-03-31
Choosing to keep cameras trained on the president necessarily means devoting less time to other stories that might actually inform viewers about the course of the pandemic and how to fight it–whether it's talking to infectious disease experts on what measures are necessary to limit the death toll, or reporting on other nations' successes and failures.
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On the Need for Dissent and Debate in These Urgent Times
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-03-31
On the Need for Dissent and Debate in These Urgent Times…
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[Obituary] Aron Goldhirsch
Andrew Green | thelancet.com | 2020-03-28
Medical oncologist specialising in breast cancer. Born on April 25, 1946, in Landsberg am Lech, Germany, he died on Feb 26, 2020, in Lugano, Switzerland, aged 73 years.
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[Comment] COVID-19: towards controlling of a pandemic
Juliet Bedford, Delia Enria, Johan Giesecke, David L Heymann, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Gary Kobinger, H Clifford Lane, Ziad Memish, Myoung-don Oh, Amadou Alpha Sall, Anne Schuchat, Kumnuan Ungchusak, Lothar H Wieler, WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards | thelancet.com | 2020-03-17
During the past 3 weeks, new major epidemic foci of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), some without traceable origin, have been identified and are rapidly expanding in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East, with the first confirmed cases being identified in African and Latin American countries. By March 16, 2020, the number of cases of COVID-19 outside China had increased drastically and the number of affected countries, states, or territories reporting infections to WHO was 143.1 On the basis of "alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction", on March 11, 2020, the…
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