The 73rd World Health Assembly has come to end, with 140 countries deciding to act and cooperate together moving forward. International institutions and world leaders, especially EU leaders, have reacted to Donald Trump’s threats, and united under the World Health Organization. The United States, which would not have been able to accept the results of the declaration, was kept out ...
Mid-April saw an explosion of protests across the United States calling for freedom of movement and a repeal of lockdown measures. In Kentucky, Washington, Minnesota, Colorado, Virginia, and Michigan, mass acts of civil disobedience in spite of the global pandemic have courted attention from the highest levels of government and the mainstream media. The protest organizers are a loose alliance ...
BY TÜLİN UYGUR / STOCKHOLM There has been a boost in internal and external criticism in Sweden as a result of the government’s ‘herd immunity’ strategy. The Swedish experiment is ongoing, but the results are already coming in, and things don’t look good. On January 31, 2020, Sweden diagnosed its first coronavirus case, and immediately decided to follow a different path ...
Against the backdrop of wide-ranging efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, conspiracy theories are proving almost as infectious on the internet, many of which suggest that a cabal of global elites are using the situation to strengthen their control over the population. One of the ways which they allegedly plan to accomplish this is microchipping – inserting ...
Marx and Engels’ renowned Communist Party Manifesto (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) begins with some very impressive sentences: ‘A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.” This statement was made 172 years ...
By Yang Chen If someone had predicted that face masks and ventilators would become critically strategic supplies, and even an item in an arms race just last year, it would have seemed ridiculous. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has made this a reality. However, at the same time, the hysteria around the face masks raises a few questions: Can wearing a ...
Egypt appealed to the UN Security Council to protest Ethiopia’s intention to begin filling the reservoir of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) this year. Cairo is trying to warn the international community that Ethiopia’s plans could lead to serious losses for Egypt – up to half of all freshwater the country receives. As a result, the country may face ...
By Orçun Göktürk We have come to the end of the neoliberal historical period that started with Thatcher and Reagan. The helplessness of the West in responding to the pandemic reminds us of Mao Zedong’s famous declaration that American imperialism is a ‘paper tiger’. More recently, in 2002, the German Minister of Justice asserted that she was planning to divert ...
At the end of February, the world was discussing the restrictive measures that had to be taken against the Coronavirus pandemic. Now, just 3 months after, people are beginning to criticize these measures and demand the end of the restrictions. This situation reminded me of a tweet by George Friedman, the founder of Stratfor (A think tank associated with the ...
One of the most discussed questions in the world right now is what kind of a world awaits in the post-coronavirus era. We might also ask whether the changes in store can come about without a major global conflict. The End of Liberal-Globalist system Almost everyone agrees that the liberal-globalist system is now collapsing. This is agreed on not only ...
The Coronavirus pandemic has become a convenient way for governments in many countries to strengthen surveillance of their own citizens. About 30 countries around the world have strengthened such measures. As governments discuss the need to remove quarantine restrictions, the issue of controlling the number of people falling ill is becoming more and more acute. It’s impossible to continue lockdown ...
The coronavirus crisis in Ibero-America has brought to light numerous problems across the entire continent. All models of governance and international disposition have suffered attacks to different degrees, revealing internal problems linked to the economy, health and the subsistence of citizens. In all of Latin America the number of cases amounts to 200,000, with a total of 10,000 deaths (officially) ...