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Archives for أبريل 2020

Solidarity in a Time of Pandemic, While the US Capitalizes on Disaster

The virus does not discriminate, attacking oppressed and oppressor alike. Unfortunately, the US government does more than discriminate. Washington has seen the pandemic as an opportunity.

Roger D. Harris
بواسطة Roger D. Harris
COVID-19 Cuba Feature photo

Like most everyone else, I don’t get out much lately due to shelter-in-place. But when I walk around my community, I am heartened by neighbors asking if there is anything we might need. I suspect this scenario is taking place everywhere. Around the world amidst the pandemic, people step out at a mutually designated evening hour to make noise in

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Saudi Arabia Violates its Own Ceasefire As Yemen Announces First Cases of Coronavirus

The Saudi regime has engaged in a number of questionable activities since the global outbreak of COVID-19, including moving masses of African refugees deported from areas with coronavirus to the Yemeni border.

Ahmed Abdulkareem
بواسطة Ahmed Abdulkareem

HAJJAH, YEMEN -- Thursday proved to be a tragic day for internally displaced people in the Al-Mazraq Refugee Camp in Yemen’s northern Hajjah Province. The camp lies on the outskirts of Haradh city near the Yemen-Saudi border. Residents of the camp were shocked by the sound of huge explosions and aircraft buzzing overhead, especially as news had

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COVID-19: How the Media Hyped the Public Into an Anti-China Frenzy

New polls show an overwhelming desire by Americans to see some kind of retaliation against China over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
China coronavirus feature photo

A new Harris poll has found that, amidst the crisis, the American public’s attitude towards China has turned from frosty to outright hostile. 77 percent of the country blames China for the outbreak, with 54 percent stating that it owes the U.S. reparations for being the epicenter of the outbreak. The public also believes that China has acted highly

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New Research Shows Anti-Coronavirus Drugs Could Be Produced for Pennies

Instead, those drugs are being sold for thousands of dollars each, proving once again that the private, for-profit pharmaceutical industry is ill-equipped to handle a global public health crisis like COVID-19.

Alan Macleod
بواسطة Alan Macleod
coronavirus drugs feature photo

A new article in the Journal of Virus Eradication published yesterday explored the cost of mass producing several drugs that have shown distinct promise in the global fight against the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. The research, headed by Dr. Andrew Hill from the Department of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, found treatments like

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A Failed Model: Why Adam Schiff Must Stand Down on a “9/11-Style” COVID-19 Commission

Many members of the Trump administration deserve to be arrested and tried in a court of law. They should not, however, have the luxury of escaping truth and justice by way of a “9/11-style Commission.”

Jon Gold
بواسطة Jon Gold
Adam Schiff COVID-19

Rep. Adam Schiff recently announced that he would be drafting a bill to create a “9/11-style commission” to investigate the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Considering how absolutely corrupt and compromised the 9/11 Commission was, it should never serve as a model for any investigation. As I wrote in my article, “The

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Faith, Humor and Dutch Candy: A Palestinian Guide to Surviving Quarantine

The coronavirus quarantine is no radical departure for many Palestinians, who have learned to live in a state of virtual ‘lockdown’ since the late 1940s.

Ramzy Baroud
بواسطة Ramzy Baroud
Coronavirus Gaza Photo of the day

Call it a ‘quarantine’, a ‘shelter-in-place’, a ‘lockdown’ or a ‘curfew’, we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived in virtual ‘lockdown’. My father’s ‘quarantine’ was experienced much earlier, as did his father’s ‘shelter-in-place’ before him. They both died

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