Economic and medical warfare during the pandemic amounts to a crime against humanity, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Category: COVID-19
COVID-19: Time to Shake Up Global Sanctions Regimes, say UN Officials
At a time of a global health and economic crisis, some UN officials, such as the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, are calling for lifting sanctions around the world.
COVID-19: Healthcare Workers Block Protest Against Colorado Stay-Home Order
Photojournalist Alyson McClaran captured the tense confrontation in a series of photos posted to social media on Sunday, reports Jake Johnson.
COVID-19: The City in a Time of Plague
History teaches us that epidemics are more like revelatory moments than social transformers, writes Pepe Escobar.
COVID-19: Thucydides and the Plague of Athens
The lessons we learn from coronavirus will come from our experiences, not from Thucydides, but he offers a description of a city-state in crisis as poignant and powerful now, as it was in 430BC, writes Chris Mackie.
COVID-19: North Korea’s Missing Data
COVID-19: The Transformation of Emmanuel Macron
WATCH: ASSANGE EXTRADITION: John Pilger, Stefania Maurizi and Charles Glass
COVID-19: Progress Seen in Talks to End Yemen War
UN envoy expects a formal agreement soon that will lead to the end of the brutal Saudi assault on Yemen, reports Joe Lauria.
COVID-19: Vietnam Winning New War Against Invisible Enemy
The World Economic Forum, the Financial Times and others laud Vietnam as a low cost Covid-19 success story to be emulated by poor countries with limited resources, say Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.