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Coronavirus effects on global education
Apr 21, 2020 03:37School closures do not impact just the students. They also impact the teachers and their families but also have much deeper societal and economic consequences.
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US military morale in decline
Apr 20, 2020 11:26US Navy Vice Admiral Bill Merz, the Commander of the United States' largest forward¬-deployed fleet, recently visited the aircraft carrier reeling from a coronavirus outbreak and admitted the morale for some of its crew was negatively impacted by recent events.
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Save Rohingya Muslims from COVID-19
Apr 20, 2020 11:18For almost three years, Rohingya refugees who have been sheltering in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, have tried to go home and resume normal life. They want their children to go to school and for families separated by the conflict to be reunited. So far, international attempts to hold Myanmar accountable for crimes against the Rohingya Muslims and improve conditions in Rakhine State have failed.
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COVID-19 was a trigger, but capitalism caused the economic crash in US
Apr 20, 2020 11:13"Now, as Americans sink into an economic depression by reacting so poorly to the coronavirus, Federal Reserve and Trump Treasury policies seek to return us to that “great economy” Trump boasted about before March 2020", says Richard D. Wolff, emeritus professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Palestinian political prisoners abused by Israel during COVID-19
Apr 20, 2020 11:09According to reports, during the coronavirus pandemic the Zionist regime has continued to practice various forms of torture against Palestinian detainees. Israel has also made it impossible for Palestinian prisoners to have visits from family members inside of its jails, seemingly the only place that social distancing seems to apply for Palestinians. Arrest campaigns have also been ongoing in the West Bank, despite the pandemic and global call from the UN for ceasefire.
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COVID-19 is exposing the violence of US foreign policy as virus spreads
Apr 20, 2020 11:06The U.S. is on its knees today because the public schools are closed, so millions of children from low-income families have lost their most reliable source of daily calories. This, in turn, has caused food banks across the country to be burdened far beyond their capacities. Before COVID-19, it was “too expensive” to feed people in the US hypercapitalist system.
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Post-Corona world; a new world with an injured body (2)
Apr 20, 2020 11:01Coronavirus will eventually leave us, but the scars of coronavirus and its aftermaths will remain on the body of the world, since the world’s present power structure is not powerful enough to heal this wound and make up for its huge consequences; this structure will naturally change and a new order will emerge.
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Trump’s defunding of the WHO threatens to make the pandemic worse
Apr 19, 2020 14:36If US President Donald Trump were serious about containing the coronavirus pandemic, he would be proposing large grants to bolster public health systems and disease containment strategies globally. Instead, all-too-predictably, as U.S. death rates from the virus soar, he seeks to score cheap political points with his base by castigating and now defunding the World Health Organization.
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Post-Corona world; a new world with an injured body (1)
Apr 19, 2020 06:06Coronavirus will eventually leave us, but the scars of coronavirus and its aftermaths will remain on the body of the world, since the world’s present power structure is not powerful enough to heal this wound and make up for its huge consequences; this structure will naturally change and a new order will emerge.
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Trump’s EPA is unleashing the pollution that makes us vulnerable to COVID-19
Apr 18, 2020 04:01Past exposure to air pollution increases the risk that an individual will suffer critical illness after contracting COVID-19, according to a report released on April 8 by researchers at Harvard. In light of this finding, the recent decision of Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to indefinitely suspend environmental rule enforcement is tantamount to gross negligence.