There is no substitute, as this catastrophe unfolds, to transfer priorities from privatization to the creation of a robust public sector at the very least for health, says Vijay Prashad.
The human tendency to attack each other even when the entire species is under threat, especially as the U.S. goes after China, gives an advantage to viruses, which can even survive a nuclear attack, says Coleen Rowley.
The fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak puts Beijing and Washington on a collision course, writes Pepe Escobar.
Ajit Singh reports on the right-wing regime change entity that poses as a grassroots human rights network while seeking to destabilize China.
In the end, the conference did disintegrate into the catfight that will dominate the rest of the century, writes Pepe Escobar.
The only complaint the U.S. allows is that the United States might not defend us enough, when the greater danger comes from being defended too much, writes Diana Johnstone on the Munich conference.
The Middle East is the key to wide-ranging, economic, interlinked integration and peace, writes Pepe Escobar.
The West is out of practice when it comes to serious strategic appraisal of the U.S.-Russian arms race, writes Michael Brenner.
Andrew Bacevich highlights some of the world-shaping developments that Washington policy elites overlooked back in 1989, when the U.S. was intoxicated by a belief in its own omnipotence.
