29 April 2020 — Origin: New Eastern Outlook
Andre Vltchek
It is getting ugly, extremely ugly.
It is increasingly looking like a war – at least a new ‘cold’, ideological war.
But in the shadow of COVID-19, it goes almost unnoticed.
The blind horseman, who hates China intuitively, without knowing hardly anything about it, is leading the pack, pushing his president into a confrontation with the most populous country on Earth. His name is Peter Navarro.
2 May 2020 — Michael Roberts Blog
Optimism reigns in global stock markets, particularly in the US. After falling around 30% when the lockdowns to contain COVID-19 virus pandemic were imposed, the US stock market has jumped back 30% in April. Why? Well, for two reasons. The first is that the US Federal Reserve has intervened to inject humungous amounts of credit through buying up bonds and financial instruments of all sorts. The other central banks have also reacted similarly with credit injections, although nothing compares with the Fed’s monetary impulse.
2 May 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom
The incompetent and disorganised response by the US and UK government to the pandemic poses a deeper question than simply the personnel involved. Is this response accidental or predictable in so far as it has occurred in the two countries where neo-liberalism is most advanced, financialization most extreme and the state most disrupted. This article addresses this question.
2 May 2020 — Public Reading Rooms
Public Reading Rooms is publishing these theses – on the pandemic, the nature of the crisis and the necessary next steps. We want to initiate a wide-ranging discussion on the left. Please send us any comments, thoughts or longer pieces to transform@prruk.org
1 May, 2020 — RT
A woman passes a mural showing doctors and nurses in south London, as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of coronavirus © Getty Images / Dominic Lipinski / PA Images
Maybe the moment has come to take a step back from our exclusive focus on the pandemic, to allow ourselves to consider what coronavirus and its devastating effects reveal about us as a society.
1 May 2020 — Anti-Capital
1. You’re heroes, don’t you know? You’re heroes for doing all the things you do when you’re scorned, ignored, mocked, abused, harassed, and exploited. Now you’re heroes for delivering food by bicycle, by cart, by hand; for delivering packages by truck or dolly or backpack. You’re heroes now for filling prescriptions; for selling paper towels; for running lab tests; for handling cash and charges on the check-out line while people with more income than you fill their carts with cartons of pasta, cans of beans and tuna, fill them with the precious chicken and sainted ground beef. You’re heroes for nursing those with the virus, while the governments-plural-can’t even organize a testing program much less a treatment protocol.
1 May 2020 — Off Guardian
Who is Bill Gates? A software developer? A businessman? A philanthropist? A global health expert?
The New Dark Age 