April 25, 2020
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Damascus life & calm
Scenes from April 21, walking through old Damascus, where shops have re-opened partially and where calm and humanity prevail Continue reading
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Britain: the capitalist press – “a great keyboard on which the government can play”
24 April 2020 — In Defence of Marxism Ben Gliniecki Image: Socialist Appeal This article was written before the coronavirus pandemic, but with the press spending weeks subjecting the Tories to nothing but uncritical “wartime” coverage, and now fawning over the establishment-friendly Labour leader Keir Starmer, the points it makes are more valid than ever. Continue reading
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The Greek tragedy: Act Three
On Thursday night, EU leaders again failed to agree on how to provide proper fiscal support for hard-hit member states to cope with the health costs of the coronavirus pandemic and collapse of their economies from the lockdowns. Continue reading
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Palestinians hunker down for Ramadan, facing a virus that doesn’t discriminate but an occupier that does
As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations’ lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them. Continue reading
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Trump was given ‘realtime updates’ over Covid-19 as the pandemic developed
US SCIENTISTS at the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters gave US President Donald Trump “real-time updates” about the emergence and spread of coronavirus in China in late 2019, undermining his claims that the organisation covered up information in the early stages of what became a pandemic. Continue reading
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USA: Exceptionalistic Claptrap
Their fundamental assumptions about the U.S. is that it is exceptional only in its warmongering and cruelty. Poll after poll have shown that “the world” does not have a widely positive picture of the U.S. It instead sees it as the greatest threat Continue reading
The New Dark Age 