800,000 Doctors to Trump: Heed Expert Warnings and End Dangerous Campaign Against Social Distancing

“We need your leadership in supporting science-based recommendations on social distancing that can slow the virus.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) A council representing more than 800,000 doctors across the U.S. signed a letter Friday imploring President Donald Trump to reverse his call for businesses to reopen by April 12, warning that the president’s flouting [...]

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What Is The Best Medicine For COVID-19?

Scientists and pharmaceutical companies are racing to produce the most effective medicines and vaccines to fight the pandemic. As the New Coronavirus (COVID-9) continues to infect and kill more people worldwide, scientists and pharmaceutical companies are busy producing the most effective medicines and vaccines to contain the virus that has now claimed more than 11,000 [...]

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Entertainers Are Creating New Content While Quarantined: Is it Necessary?

“Some entertainers are seeking to console or at least occupy the attention of those in lockdown by creating new content to stream online.” As America joins other countries in hunkering down to avoid coronavirus, the internet is a safe bet for whiling away the hours at home. Some entertainers are seeking to console or at [...]

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The COVID-19 Response as a Dress Rehearsal for Dealing with Climate Change

How we ultimately respond to the coronavirus pandemic could tell us a lot about what will happen when the climate crisis hits in full force.

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Has America Reached Its Endgame in Afghanistan?

“The bottom line is that the Taliban (and Pakistan, which mentors it) would see that the political ascendance of the Taliban in Kabul, whenever it is due, happens with international legitimacy.” In an extraordinary statement titled “On the Political Impasse in Afghanistan,” Washington has admitted to the failure of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s mission [...]

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When Economists Try to Solve Health Crises, the Results Can Often Be Disastrous

Classical economics helped kill millions in the British Empire’s famines—following economic orthodoxy today could be just as deadly. I’m writing this at 585,000 worldwide active cases, 26,000 deaths, and with only China and Korea seemingly under some sort of control (using a social metric tool, Worldometer). The stimulus package announced by the U.S. government is at [...]

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Doctors “Strongly Condemn” UK Decision to Keep Assange Imprisoned During COVID-19 Pandemic

Assange’s treatment in the UK’s Belmarsh Prison has been so poor that convicted murderers and other high-security inmates had to stage a mass protest to secure his transfer to the hospital wing. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Doctors4Assange, a group of 195 medical professionals from 30 countries, released a statement today “strongly condemning” a British court decision to [...]

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Weeks After Saying ‘I Shook Hands With Everybody’ at Hospital, Boris Johnson Tests Positive for Coronavirus

“I am now self-isolating.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus, he announced Friday, just weeks after cavalierly declaring that he was still “shaking hands with everybody” and downplaying warnings about the deadly virus coming from public health officials and scientists. “I am now self-isolating, but [...]

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Nonprofits At Risk of Closure as Funding Hit by Coronavirus

“This is the largest financial hit that we will have ever taken in the history of our agency.” The impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus have been mostly represented by money lost by businesses and lives claimed by the disease. However, the nonprofit sector in the US is also suffering as funding dries up. A group [...]

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As the World Tackles the COVID-19 Pandemic, the U.S. Raises the Pressure on Venezuela

“The UN secretary-general’s comment that ceasefires are the call of the hour given the global pandemic should apply to the United States’ hybrid war against Venezuela. It needs to stop now.” In a press conference on March 26, it was almost comical how little evidence the U.S. Department of Justice provided when it accused Venezuela’s President Nicolás [...]

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3.3 Million File for Unemployment, Shattering Record

“America may be witnessing just the beginning of the dire situation as economists anticipate the unemployment rate will continue to climb.” US stock markets closed Thursday with their third consecutive day on the rise on hopes of a historic $2.2 trillion stimulus. The emergency economic relief isn’t the only historic number to hit the economy [...]

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