During both, the truth can quickly disappear, writes Patrick Cockburn.
Tag: pandemic
COVID-19: Lessons from Lombardy
While one part of northern Italy teaches a cautionary lesson, a small town in neighboring Veneto offers a case study in good practices, Andrew Spannaus reports.
COVID-19: Living Through the Pandemic in World’s Most Livable City
Mona Ali Khalil says Austrian authorities have moved quickly to contain the virus and extend free services to everyone, including refugees and migrant workers.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Our Post-Pandemic Future
Will human civilization simply resume course or will we recognize the need for numerous far-reaching reforms?
PEPE ESCOBAR: Who Profits from the Pandemic?
Pepe Escobar looks at a frightening future that might follow the already terrifying Covid-19 global outbreak.
COVID-19: Wall Street Wins Again
PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Defiles ‘Common Humanity’ During Pandemic
Washington’s priorities are maintaining divisions, suspicions, animosities and enmities as if there were no global humanitarian crisis.
COVID-19: We Won’t Go Back to Normal, Because Normal Was the Problem
When a global pandemic strikes, the private-sector austerity model simply falls apart, writes Vijay Prashad.
COVID-19: UN Security Council MIA as Coronavirus Ravages the World
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.
COVID-19: How Corona Broke the System
The corona crisis sends shockwaves through political, economic and social systems. The status quo simply cannot continue, writes Marc Saxer.