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From tariffs to the TikTok ban to slurs about the “kung flu”, Trump has been expressing mounting frustration over China and ramping up attacks on an inexorably rising power on the global stage.
Full transcript of the US Senator’s speech on August 17, 2020.
Martin Luther King’s characterisation, “The problem is that we all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free enterprise capitalism for the poor”, perfectly describes what is happening in the USA during the pandemic.
Since its inception the US has brutally repressed every country that stood in its way of its expansion for control of resources and its entitlement to limitless accumulation of vast wealth for a few.
Like Trump in the U.S. and Bolsonaro in Brazil, the Philippine strongman’s utter failure to contain COVID-19 may kneecap his authoritarian ambitions.
The WHO, with its warts and all, still stands for global cooperation and fostering public health policies, and is the only instrument we have for global cooperation. It is hated by the right-wing precisely for these reasons.
The problem is not Trump, but a political system, dominated by corporate power and the mandarins of the two major political parties, in which we don’t count. If we do not stand up, we will enter a new dark age.
By early July, known infections in the US exceeded three million, while deaths topped 135,000. But a deeper shows that the virus has been highly selective in the suffering it’s caused and the lives it’s taken.
In Latin America, the pandemic has furthered – sometimes dramatically – a series of economic and social processes that were already underway before the virus emerged.
The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars. A look at US wars in Philippines, Korea, Vietnam …
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