Stella Calloni Photo: Bill Hackwell It is enough to look at the faces of the presidents who represent unbridled capitalism in times of decadence or to listen to their “speeches”, to understand some analysts who mention how empires slowly begin to commit suicide and resemble a monster that still maintains its claws extended over various…
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SARS-CoV-2: A Virus “Made in” Capitalism
Misión Verdad “Wetiko” is the term Native Americans use to describe the ”virus” of selfishness: Liana Buszka What the new coronavirus pandemic has made very clear is that the drive for profit in the capitalist system can be fatal. Of course, this multi-layered crisis triggered by Covid-19 will have a disproportionate impact on vulnerable groups,…
The COVID-19 Pandemic is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism
Henry A. Giroux The current coronavirus pandemic is more than a medical crisis, it is also a political and ideological crisis. It is a crisis deeply rooted in years of neglect by neoliberal governments that denied the importance of public health and the public good while defunding the institutions that made them possible. At the…
Coronavirus and the Political Storm at the Pentagon: The Keys to an Unprecedented Crisis
William Serafino The USS Theodore Roosevelt in American waters. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images. The strong impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has been felt in the Pentagon in a remarkable way, exposing an emerging political crisis. The First Scandal It all began on the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt docked…
Chemical and Biological Weapons: The US Government Waged a War Against its Own Citizens
Larry Romanoff For the past 70 or so years, the US government waged a war against its own citizens, a reprehensible history of illegal, unethical and immoral experiments exposing countless US civilians to deadly procedures and pathogens. According to a US Congressional investigation, by the late 1970s: “at least 500,000 people were used as subjects…
Globalization in the Time of Pandemic
Pablo Jofre Leal Part I We are in the year 2020 of the Christian era, 1441 of the Islamic calendar, 5780 of the Chinese calendar, 12477 of the Mapuche people’s calendar, among many other calendars and all of them of societies subject to the hegemonic attempts of the globalization process, which has as its fundamental…
Resistance Growing to Covid-Capitalism
Glen FordCovid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital – like the killer virus — cares for nothing but reproducing itself. “We have to ensure that we never return to the society that enabled this pandemic to emerge.” What some may remember as the Year of…
Quarantine (XI): The Fragile Truce
Reinaldo Iturriza López Man with a mask. Cappuccinos, Caracas. Photo: Dikó. Cacri Photos Collective A Slap in the Face for Humanity The news and testimonies coming from the popular neighbourhoods of Guayaquil, Ecuador, about tens and maybe hundreds of corpses in houses and streets (1), is a slap in the face not only for the…
US Blocks Urgent COVID-19 Aid to Cuba
Message from Cuba’s Ambassador to China, Carlos Miguel Pereira Hernández Things are always harder for Cuba. We Cubans don’t even get a break during a pandemic. When Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese electronics giant Alibaba and the foundation that bears his name announced to the world his intent to donate 500,000 COVID-19 rapid tests…
The Pandemic and the End of the Neoliberal Era
Atilio A. Boron The coronavirus has unleashed a torrent of reflections and analyses that have as a common denominator the intention to outline the (diffuse) contours of the kind of society and economy that will re-emerge once the scourge has been controlled. There are plenty of reasons to enter into that kind of speculation, which…
Pandemic and Socialism
Prabhat Patnaik A COVID-19 hospital in Wuhan that was built in less than 10 days. It is said that in a crisis everybody becomes a socialist; free markets take a back seat, to the benefit of the working people. During the Second World War for instance, when universal rationing was introduced in Britain, the average…
Governments of the World Ask UN to Demand Lifting of Unilateral Coercive Measures Amid COVID-19
In order to ensure a full and efficient response to the threat posed by the COVID-19 crisis on humankind, the governments of Venezuela, China, Russia, Iran, Syria, Nicaragua, Cuba and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea addressed a letter to the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asking the multilateral organization to call for the immediate lifting…
