March 2020
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The ’emerging market’ slump
Forecasts of a global slump in the rest of 2020 are coming in droves from mainstream economists – it’s now the consensus that there will be a contraction in global real GDP in at least two consecutive quarters (Q1 and Q2), in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic and the ‘lock down’ in response. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 14-19 March 2020
19 March 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back A Tale of Two Foreign Policies: The Train-Wreck Abroad Is Bipartisan https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/03/19/a-tale-of-two-foreign-policies-the-train-wreck-abroad-is-bipartisan/ New Evidence of US Ties to Terrorists https://journal-neo.org/2020/03/19/new-evidence-of-us-ties-to-terrorists/ Continue reading
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Covid-19 Global Lockdown
Let’s try a little thought experiment. Just for fun. To pass the time while we’re indefinitely locked down inside our homes, compulsively checking the Covid-19 “active cases” and “total death” count, washing our hands every twenty minutes, and attempting not to touch our faces. Continue reading
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THE BAIL OUTS WILL COST LIVES AGAIN
What follows is the cruellest of equations. At what point will the corona virus pandemic kill more people through the poverty it will generate as production collapses and jobs are lost, than will be killed by the virus itself. Hundreds of millions of workers have been sucked into this maelstrom. The majority do not live… Continue reading
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Successful High-Dose Vitamin C Treatment of Patients with Serious and Critical COVID-19 Infection
A group of medical doctors, healthcare providers and scientists met online March 17, 2020, to discuss the use of high dose intravenous vitamin C (IVC) in the treatment of moderate to severe cases of Covid-19 patients. The key guest was Dr. Enqian Mao, chief of emergency medicine department at Ruijin Hospital, a major hospital in… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 March 2020 (04/20)
18 March 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/mar/email-18-3-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSIS 1. Frontex launches “game-changing” recruitment drive for standing corps of border guards Continue reading
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The New York Times’ Insidious Ongoing Disinformation Campaign on Russia & Elections
For the past three years the new narrative of Russian interference in U.S. elections has bound corporate news media more tightly than ever to the interests of the national security state. And no outlet has pushed that narrative more aggressively – and with more violence to the relevant facts — than The New York Times. Continue reading
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Petition: Implement Universal Basic Income to give home & food security through Covid-19
The government should implement an immediate Universal Basic Income trial for all UK residents to ensure home and food security through the coronavirus Covid-19 crisis, to support the needs of those that need to self-isolate as well as the public health at large, and the wider economy. Continue reading
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China locked in hybrid war with US
Among the myriad, earth-shattering geopolitical effects of coronavirus, one is already graphically evident. China has re-positioned itself. For the first time since the start of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in 1978, Beijing openly regards the US as a threat, as stated a month ago by Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference during the… Continue reading
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Coronavirus – A Lockdown Is Not Enough
17 March 2020 — Moon of Alabama Dr. Carl Juaneau, who is specialized in epidemiology, has pointed me to a page where he collects useful information about the novel Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 and the current pandemic it causes. COVID-19: Why America May Be Hit Hard for 3-4 Months & What To Do It is quite good. Continue reading
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To Defeat Coronavirus, Media Need to Look at Real-World Examples, Not Play ‘Simulitis’
Every news outlet ought to have a chart like this one, from the Financial Times, featured prominently on their home page—because there is no more important question in the coronavirus crisis right now than how to get off the path led by Italy and onto the track of countries like Singapore. Continue reading
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Saying of the year
China’s “cruel communist dictatorship” sacrifices its economy to save the population. The “cool British democracy” sacrifices its population to save its economy. – Anon Continue reading
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A lesson coronavirus is about to teach the world
If a disease can teach wisdom beyond our understanding of how precarious and precious life is, the coronavirus has offered two lessons. Continue reading
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U.S. Army invades virus plagued Europe
In the midst of a staggering virus epidemic that has shut much of Europe down, the insane and arrogant United States is presently sending 30,000 Army troops throughout Europe for war games. Continue reading
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False Warnings of Soviet Missile Attacks Put U.S. Forces on Alert
Washington D.C., March 16, 2020 – During the Cold War, false alarms of missile attacks were closely held matters although news of them inevitably leaked. Today the National Security Archive revisits the false alerts of the Jimmy Carter administration when on four occasions warning screens showed hundreds and hundreds of Soviet ballistic missiles heading toward North… Continue reading
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Editorial: Only a collectivist approach can solve the Covid-19 crisis
The neoliberal orthodoxy which decrees that public services should be located in the marketplace, their functions subordinated to the profit nexus and service provision reduced to bare-bones delivery means the NHS has a limited number of intensive care units that — before the coronavirus epidemic really takes off — are already 80 per cent occupied. Continue reading
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A Covid-19 Vaccine Quickly And Cheaply
Public health experts say that if the COVID-19 epidemic is not successfully contained, it could become a global pandemic, perhaps spreading to 80% of the world’s population. With a 1% mortality rate, this would mean that 70 million people would die of the disease. With a 2% mortality rate, the total number of deaths would… Continue reading
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COVID-19: Cuban Interferon in China
The selection by the Chinese health authorities of Cuban interferon alpha 2B(IFRrec) among 30 other drugs to combat the new coronavirus Covid-19 should come as no surprise. Continue reading
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How to treat Coronavirus infection COVID-19
If a situation with the CAVID-19 coronavirus infection follows the same scenario as the SARS epidemic, then by April- May the problem will be less acute. In his interview to the RT the academic Alexander Chuchalin, the Head of Department of Hospital therapy of the Russian National Research Medical Pirogov University. In his opinion, the… Continue reading
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