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Henry Kissinger Calls for a New Post-Covid World Order

23Apr

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Henry Kissinger Calls for a New Post-Covid World Order

By Mike Whitney Global Research, Henry Kissinger thinks the Coronavirus is a threat to his precious New World Order, so he wants President Trump to do whatever he can to protect the system. In an opinion piece that was published in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, the former Secretary of State urged Trump to launch a grand project, like the Marshall Plan, to unify the allies and convince them that the Uncle Sam can still rally the troops in a time of crisis. Here’s Kissinger: “Drawing lessons from the development of the Marshall Plan and the Manhattan Project, the U.S. is obliged to undertake a major effort in three domains. First, shore up global resilience to infectious disease…Second, strive to heal the wounds to the world economy….Third, safeguard the principles o...

Lessons of Covid-19 pt 1: Only workers can solve the problems created by capital

23Apr

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Lessons of Covid-19 pt 1: Only workers can solve the problems created by capital

Who are the real ‘key workers’ and why are they still being treated so badly? Proletarian writers Putting their lives on the line. Many essential key workers are working without proper protection for minimum wages on insecure contracts. Why is it that the people we need the most are the ones we’ve been treating the worst for decades? Covid-19 is having an incredible effect on how we perceive ‘essential workers’ in our society. Even Boris Johnson has been forced to admit that there “really is such a thing as society” – an ironic reference to Margaret Thatcher’s infamous claim that “there’s no such thing as society”. (There is such a thing as society, says Boris Johnson from bunker, The Guardian, 29 March 2020) Not only does society exist, but we are learning dail...

The Self-Centered Rich Country Response to Pandemics and Crises is Wrecking Poor Countries

22Apr

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The Self-Centered Rich Country Response to Pandemics and Crises is Wrecking Poor Countries

by TAMARA PEARSON I’m squatting on a round piece of concrete, and a 72-year-old man is sitting in the gutter, his walking stick beside him. He tells me that after being deported from the United States, he has been hiking the streets of Mexico City trying to find somewhere to stay. But all the refuges are closed due to the pandemic, including the one we’re sitting outside of, where I volunteer. He has run out of insulin for his diabetes and says he can’t walk any more. I’m aware that he may not survive much longer. He’s the fifth person that day that I have to turn away and I can’t stand it. Back in the migrant refuge, we organize working groups and events to add structure to the empty days and try to prevent tension building up. It’s bad enough that many of the refugees here ...

Critique of the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky

22Apr

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Critique of the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky

bY: Ella Rule Discovery of the Pirahã language disproved Chomsky’s theory of an ‘innate’ grammar existing in the human brain, providing proof positive that grammar, like every other aspect of human life, has evolved over time from less to more complex forms. Noam Chomsky, the American professor of linguistics, is well known in progressive circles for the courageous stand he took against US imperialism on the question of the Vietnam war, and which he continues to take on the question of peace in the middle east. Because he sets a fine example of courage and principle on these issues, it might be thought that he was also progressive as regards his philosophic thought. This, unfortunately, is not at all the case. Even on other political issues, such as, for example, h...

Will the Pandemic Finish Trump or Give his Régime an Escape?

22Apr

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Will the Pandemic Finish Trump or Give his Régime an Escape?

by PETE DOLACK Photograph Source: Simon Bowie – CC BY 2.0 Amidst all the talk about if the global Covid-19 pandemic will lead to an opening for socialism, or at least a reduction in the grip of neoliberalism, in the wake of capitalism’s failures, a more immediate question is if there is to be a reversal of the march of the Right in electoral politics. Elections in New Zealand and several Australian states are scheduled for later this year, as are Brazilian municipal, Venezuelan parliamentary and French senatorial elections. The results in Brazil will be of particular interest, given the disastrous administration of Jair Bolsonaro, the extreme right president who lusts for dictatorship and continues to deny the effects of the virus despite the vast numbers of people who a...

20Apr

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Politics and Corruption at the World Health Organization (WHO)

By Pascal Sacré This article, translated from French, was written prior to Wuhan Coronavirus epidemic outbreak *** The WHO [OMS in French] is the World Health Organisation. ‘WHO’ in English – and that’s much more appropriate. WHO: who is it really? Would the world be getting along any better without this outfit, which is in theory such a good idea? Would we be in better health? The question is as serious as it is relevant. Though even one death is one too many, compared with the alarmist forecasts from this professional organisation that were foisted on all the ministries of health the world over, one could say that the H1N1 viral pandemic, version 2009, has so far produced not much more than a mouse. But what a fabulous show for the media! What a brilliantly o...

20Apr

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US COVID-19 vs. Economy Related Polls: Homelessness, Unemployment and Hunger in America

By Stephen Lendman A new Gallup poll showed Trump’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 crisis and indifference toward infected Americans is catching up to him. Concerned only about his own self-interest and monied ones he serves at the expense of the health and welfare of ordinary people everywhere, a newly released Gallup poll showed dissatisfaction with him growing. His weeks earlier approval rating of 49%, the highest of his presidency, slumped to 43%. Congress is worse at 30%, its lowest approval rating in over a decade. Respondents’ satisfaction with the direction of the country fell 12 points from weeks earlier. Poll results, based on interviews conducted from April 1 – 14, showed the sharpest drop in Trump’s approval rating in opinion surveys conducted by Gallup. ...

20Apr

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Health, Politics, World

Stanford Study Proves Covid-19 Was Overhyped. “Death Rate Is Likely Under 0.2%”

Stanford study proves many more people are infected - between 50-85 times more - than reported and thus the "death rate" is astronomically lower than we were told. By Tony Cartalucci MIT Tech Review’s hyped coverage of the Covid-19 outbreak is led by the tag-line, “Navigating a world reshaped by Covid-19.” Their articles reflect an eager embracement of the public hysteria prompted by Covid-19’s spread, the socioeconomic paralysis it has created, and the many profitable solutions – particularly those involving technology – proposed to “shape” the world post-Covid-19. It should come as no surprise that a corporate-influenced outlet hiding behind academia and technology would take issue with anyone casting doubt on just how warranted all of this hysteria really is or isn’t – ...

20Apr

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Orange King COVID

by PAUL STREET Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Listen to Paul Street on this week’s edition of CounterPunch Radio. One of the reasons to have joined Refuse Fascism and other activists in the streets demanding the end of the lethal Trump-Pence regime for the last three years and three months was the danger that the demented president and his white nationalist party in power would use a real or manufactured crisis – a terrorist attack, a war, an economic collapse, a pandemic – as a pretext for burying what’s left of Enlightenment principles, “representative democracy,” and the constitutional “rule of law.” Now two crises that pose authoritarian dangers in any nation – not to mention a country whose top position is inhabited by a demented, corrupt and power-mad malignant wh...

20Apr

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Puppet Dictators Play a Covid Card Too Far

By Julian Rose The attempt to make the irrational and implausible appear rational and plausible has now reached dizzying new heights. The ceaseless flow of blatantly contradictory proclamations and actions emanating out of governments and global institutions that represent health, the economy and justice, sets the scene for the puppet dictators to play their Covid crisis cards. With approximately three billion people now under house arrest, it certainly is not a pretty picture. But here we are; and the media is the design and control agent for ensuring that this picture reaches every home and flat TV screen in the Western World. While the media’s main controlling agent may appear to be government, government moves in lock-step with the commands of corporations, billionai...