Jumbo jet sunset: coronavirus hastens the end of the Boeing 747
Stricken carriers are grounding their ageing, four-engine Richard Branson and Kate Moss on the wing of a jumbo jet in 2009. All Virgin Atlantic’s 747s are now grounded. […]
Breast Milk is a Life Saver for Young Children during Covid-19
by ismailimail Posted on May 9, 2020 By Dr. Shela Hirani (PhD, IBCLC, RN, Associate Professor, University of Regina, Faculty of Nursing, Canada) The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the vulnerability […]
Trump’s America Now Leads the World—in Suicidal Stupidity
Source: The Beast “American exceptionalism” is the general idea that the United States is different from other countries, endowed with special traits, better, superior. It goes back—well, actually, people debate how far it goes back. But there’s no debating when it ends. It ends this month, in May 2020, under […]
Allies despair as Trump abandons America’s leadership role at a time of global crisis
Source: CNN The United States has scaled back its role on the world stage, taken actions that are undermining efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic and left the international community without a traditional global leader, according to experts, diplomats and analysts. The US — usually at the head of the […]
‘His head wasn’t in the world of reality’: how the plot to invade Venezuela fell apart
Deeply flawed from the start, the audacious plan to overthrow Nicolás Maduro unraveled spectacularly Julian Borger in Washington, Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá and Chris McGreal Fri 8 May […]
When you’re a Muslim American mom coordinating Ramadan in Texas during coronavirus, nothing is simple
I’m in the league of mothers who are trying to balance an incredibly difficult load of work that we’d never planned on — while trying to infuse my first-generation American […]
A better world can emerge after coronavirus. Or a much worse one
Timothy Garton Ash Most Europeans support a universal basic income, yet young people doubt democracy’s capacity to deliver change @fromTGA Wed 6 May 2020 GUARDIAN The coronavirus crisis seems to […]
Coronavirus means we are getting five years’ worth of structural change in about five months
Some changes, like the plight of the high street, can be anticipated, while others will be surprising, writes Hamish McRae @TheIndyBusiness 1 day ago To travel in one’s own quiet, […]
Science, statistics and society – The story of a modern coup d’état
Source: Al Hakam By Asif M Basit In the last few weeks – now slowly turning into months – everyone around the world has had a set of words and […]
PBS special depicts George W. Bush impatient with diplomacy after 9/11: ‘F— it, we’re going to war’
Searing footage jogs memories of crises that punctuated Texan’s presidency: the 9/11 attacks, Iraq invasion, Hurricane Katrina and the financial meltdown. […]
Despite a century’s progress in science, 2020 is looking a lot like 1918.
WASHINGTON (AP) — picture of Spanish Flue In the years between two lethal pandemics, one the misnamed Spanish flu, the other COVID-19, the world learned about viruses, cured various diseases, made effective vaccines, developed instant communications and created elaborate public-health networks. Yet here we are again, face-masked to […]
The sad story of UNITED NATIONS’s staff recruitment procedures. What you need to know when you apply for a UN position.
What I am going to say probably does not only refer to the United Nations, but many other large corporations both private and public. I am just giving an example […]
How to make sure Trump or anyone like him never, ever returns to power
Defanging the most toxic elements of the Trumpian right would benefit the world as well as the United States. But it’s up to his opponents to devise strategies to […]
Chomsky: Maintaining sanctions on Iran amid coronavirus is ‘sheer sadism’
“The sanctions are illegitimate in the first place, and maintaining them during the pandemic is sheer sadism,” Chomsky told IRNA in an interview published on Saturday. Speaking from his […]
Why Religion Is Not Going Away and Science Will Not Destroy It
Source: Aeon Social scientists predicted that belief in the supernatural would drift away as modern science advanced. They were wrong. By Peter Harrison, who is an Australian Laureate Fellow and […]
The world has loved, hated and envied the US. Now, for the first time, we pity it
Fintan O’Toole: Donald Trump has destroyed the country he promised to make great again Source: The Irish Times Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very […]
We purchase only what we need – and the world economy collapses
In all the uncountable articles on the present economic crisis unleashed due to the covid-19 pandemic I find the above the most interesting. We purchase only what we need – […]
Coronavirus . Stop covid or save the economy? We can do both.
MIT Technology Review Contrary to what you’ve heard, shutting down the country is also the quickest way to get it started back up again by David Rotman April 8, 2020 Francesco Ciccolella In the first employment report after social distancing measures had taken hold in many US states, […]
Airlines and oil giants are on the brink. No government should offer them a lifeline
By George Monbiot for THE GUARDIAN This crisis is a chance to rebuild our economy for the good of humanity. Let’s bail out the living world, not its destroyers ‘Governments […]
It’s not just a second wave of the coronavirus we’re facing, but of unemployment too
If employers know that the government’s payroll support will be suddenly cut off at the end of June it’s inevitable that many will be thinking of starting to shed staff now https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronavirus-uk-job-cuts-furlough-unemployment-redundant-treasury-a9489881.html?jwsource=cl (video link) Ben Chu @Benchu_ 12 hours ago The historian AJP Taylor argued that the […]