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Vijay Prashad, Du Xiaojun, Weiyan Zhu
How China Learned About SARS-CoV-2 in the Weeks Before the Global Pandemic
07 Apr 2020
In the early weeks when the virus emerged in Wuhan, the Chinese government neither suppressed evidence nor did their warning systems fail.
Tanya Wadhwa
Chile is Another Example of the Failure of Neoliberalism to Respond to Coronavirus
07 Apr 2020
Chile has already entered the Stage 4 coronavirus transmission scenario and the country’s Health Minister has ruled out imposing total quarantine to contain the spread of the virus.
Peoples Dispatch
Israeli Forces Arrest Palestinian Governor of Jerusalem
07 Apr 2020
This is the seventh time that Adnan Ghaith is being incarcerated in the past 18 months. On Friday, Israeli forces arrested Fadi al-Hidmi, the PA minister of Jerusalem affairs.
Peoples Dispatch
Morocco Releases Over 5,600 Incarcerated People Amid COVID-19 Threat in Prisons
07 Apr 2020
Several human rights groups and organizations had appealed to the king for the release of all political prisoners and detainees, a large number of whom were part of the popular Rif protests in…
Subhash Gatade
After Covid-19, We Should All Be Cuba
07 Apr 2020
The pandemic has exposed wealthy states’ neglect of healthcare. A new medical internationalism is needed.
M.K. Bhadrakumar
Don’t Threaten Afghans. It Will be Counterproductive.
06 Apr 2020
Washington should stop micromanaging Afghan politics. Leave it to the Afghan elites to work out a consensus.
Voces en Lucha
“No Prison in Colombia Can Deal with Coronavirus, if They Leave Us Here We are Facing the Death Penalty”
06 Apr 2020
Julián Gil, social leader of Congreso de los Pueblos, talks from prison about the danger faced by thousands of inmates amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Balu Sunilraj, Aashti Salman
Strongmen Keep Virus-Struck Nations on Edge
05 Apr 2020
Voting for theatrics comes at a cost, and people are being forced to pay.
Amrita Datta
Coronavirus Shows Capitalism Has Failed Us: Are We Listening?
05 Apr 2020
Everybody knows now that an economy and society are meaningless if they cannot save human lives.
Satyajit Rath
How Valid and Useful are Speculations About Covid-19 Biology
05 Apr 2020
A body of science is being written around the pandemic, but we will know how they hold up only later.