Health
The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing
by Vijay Prashad
April 26, 2021
For Ashish Yechury (1986-2021), journalist
Photograph Source: Gwydion M. Williams – CC BY 2.0
It is difficult to overstate the grip of...
German government proposes more rights for vaccinated people: What you need...
26 April 2021
On Monday Chancellor Angela Merkel and Germany’s 16 state premiers will discuss whether those who have been fully vaccinated should receive more...
Earth Abuse and the Next Pandemic
by Stan Cox *
April 21, 2021
photo:“Human Miasma” by Priti Gulati Cox: embroidery and graphite on khadi fabric.
Humanity’s transgression of ecological limits has caused widespread...
How the Pandemic Laid Bare the Cruelties of Capitalism
By Kenn Orphan *
April 9, 2021
Photograph Source: Levon Avdoyan – CC BY 2.0
One thing this pandemic has demonstrated in stark terms is class struggle....
‘Invisible killer’: fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, research...
Pollution from power plants, vehicles and other sources accounted for one in five of all deaths that year, more detailed analysis reveals
By Oliver Milman
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How Taiwan triumphed over Covid as the UK faltered
Taipei’s success shows lives might have been saved had the UK government acted differently
by Emma Graham-Harrison and Helen Davidson
Mar. 24, 2021
Along central Taipei’s busy...
Cuban Socialist Internationalist Medicine Puts Capitalist Countries to Shame Black Agenda...
22 Mar 2021
So few of its own citizens have contracted Covid-19 – less than 300 -- that Cuba must test its vaccines in other...
France takes aim at Germany and other EU states for not...
2 April 2021
France on Friday took aim at the failure of some EU countries to rapidly ratify an emergency programme for the bloc's coronavirus-hit...
The EU falls behind America
by Thomas Fazi
31March 2021
Paschal Donohoe, the Irish finance minister and president of the Eurogroup, has written a preposterous article in the Financial Times...
What the Covid-19 war was really like in Trump’s White House
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
March 29, 2021
(CNN)No longer working under the Trump administration, six leading US health officials now reveal to CNN the real...