Tag: COVID-19
How has Covid-19 affected our day-to-day behaviors?
Coronavirus culture has forever changed our social and economic behaviors, and even had a permanent impact on our psyche.
Learning to live with COVID – the tough choices ahead
To decide what is acceptable on the suppression strategy, we have to confront the fundamental conflict between values in the COVID trilemma.
As rich countries shield pharma monopolies, just 0.2% of COVID vaccine...
"The problem is not getting vaccines out of COVAX; the problem is getting them in."
A post-COVID-19 recovery will not be possible if water, sanitation &...
The global economy and a concerted effort, coordination and imagination is needed to enable not only a worldwide recovery, but also to ensure that the world’s poorest people are not left behind.
Effects of domestic violence during Covid on children mind-set
I hope and wish that all do our very best to protect our kids and children from going through such experiences in the first place.
Lessons from the past: Protecting women and girls from violence during...
Little attention has been paid to women and girls in humanitarian settings, those whose safety has already been reduced due to conflict, natural disaster or displacement.
Beyond COVID: The essential building blocks of a just world
The qualities inherent in this global cleansing are perennial principles that many hold dear: sharing, cooperation, tolerance, understanding.
Lancet report: 40% of US COVID deaths were preventable. The country...
One of the report’s recommendations is reforming the system to a single-payer model like Medicare for All, which President Joe Biden has so far rejected in favor of bolstering the Affordable Care Act.
Democratic legislators introduce COVID Whistleblower Protection Act
The bill seeks to institute stronger legal whistleblower protections for employees who work for entities that receive COVID-19 relief funds
Corporate media’s leaked Chinese documents confirm China didn’t hide Covid-19
It is important for American journalists to combat these misperceptions, so that the U.S. can learn from China’s response on how to better deal with the current crisis.
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Family sues fossil fuel giants for wrongful death in first climate disaster case of...
In a legal first, a Washington state woman has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against some of the world’s largest fossil fuel...
This campaign against deportation flights shows how to target companies enabling Trump
A multiracial crowd of all ages carrying witty signs and chanting: Their target was the commercial airline Avelo, which has proposed operating as an ICE subcontractor to carry out deportation flights.
Is Trump’s axis of the plutocrats marginalizing Israel?
President Trump managed to realign U.S. Middle Eastern policy to center on—and yes, it should be capitalized!—an Axis of the Plutocrats, Gulf sheikhs who are using their galactic fortunes to reshape the region.
22 young Americans sue Trump administration to block executive orders pushing fossil fuels over...
In Lighthiser v. Trump, the youth plaintiffs say the administration’s actions violate their constitutional rights to life, health and safety and breach congressional mandates to safeguard public health and ecosystems.
Elon Musk leaves Trump administration after gutting government services and dodging oversight
Musk’s chaotic 130-day tenure ends with lasting damage to federal agencies, threats to global aid, and deep conflicts of interest that watchdogs say will haunt public institutions for years.