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Dag Hammarskjold, the former UN secretary-general, once said that the UN “was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell,” writes Mona Ali Khalil.
The mounting fear as coronavirus spreads is reminiscent of poliomyelitis. It’s instructive to remember what it took to nearly eradicate polio and a reminder of what we can do when faced with a common enemy, says Carl Kurlander.
Amid a Corona news blackout, Danny Sjursen says Americans are expected to forget, or ignore, that the Iraqi parliament recently asked the U.S. military to leave.
Viruses and fear of viruses are well known in a region with an ancient history of quarantine, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
COVID-19 calls on us to consider our plundered commons and unite around four truths made conspicuous by the pandemic.
Had the Iraq war not killed, injured, displaced hundreds of thousands, the lame circumlocutions of the former vice president regarding his own culpability would be laughable.
Eldad Ben Aharon examines the long background to a milestone congressional vote in late 2019 that defied 40 years of precedent.