UPDATED: The paper of record is again laundering, without skepticism, U.S. intelligence meant to ratchet up tensions with China, just as it did with Russia, writes Joe Lauria.
COVID-19: New York Times Revives its Role in Chinagate
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COVID-19: MSM China Hysteria Gets Way Crazier & Dumber
It is never a good sign when the political/media class all across the aisle begins loudly trying to out-hawk one another, says Caitlin Johnstone.
On That Leaked Report on UK Labour & Anti-Semitism
Craig Murray says the party unit that handled the complaints was not only staffed by vehemently anti-Corbyn right wingers, it was also incompetent.
COVID-19: How Ecuador Descended into Chaos
Guillaume Long says that under pressure by the IMF to reduce the size of the state, the Moreno government has made damaging cuts to public health.
COVID-19: Trump Weaponizing Virus by Intensifying Sanctions on Iran & Venezuela
Economic and medical warfare during the pandemic amounts to a crime against humanity, writes Marjorie Cohn.
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.
Climate Change Worsening Historic Drought in Western US; Rivaling Worst in 1,200 Years
“We now have enough observations of current drought and tree-ring records of past drought to say that we’re on the same trajectory as the worst prehistoric droughts.”
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
The country is saying that its tactics against the virus have kept it totally at bay, Barbara Crossette reports.