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A Threat to Putin’s Imperial Ambitions
By César ChelalaVodka addiction has had a devastating effect on Russians’ health, the country’s economy and social fabric for centuries. While the coronavirus pandemic is still making inroads in...
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The Importance of Dark Sky Preserves
By Geetika JainLike the world’s dwindling forests, the stars at night are also in danger of disappearing.How many of us are able to look up and still see a star-flooded night sky the way our ancestors...
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If there is one ready-made, off-the-shelf cliché politicians like to invoke in the current crisis, it is the need for a new Marshall Plan to help Europe overcome the economic impact of coronavirus...
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The list of potential victims of the COVID 19 crisis, according to some analysts, includes the process of globalization itself. While crises are indeed moments for changes in the course of history, not...
View ArticleThe Ayatollah in the White House
Since the 1950s, the history of the United States and of Iran has been amazingly intertwined. Unfortunately, at decisive turns in history, the two countries’ relationship was a tragic one. The action...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Information, Misinformation, Disinformation and Outright Lies
Anyone trying to follow the facts surrounding COVID 19 is bound to be confused, taken down a rabbit hole filled with suppositions, ambiguities and contradictions. As of now, there is no way to truly...
View ArticleCOVID 19 and the Lessons of Xenophobia
Since the outbreak of COVID 19, the old trope of “learning from history” has all of a sudden taken on an urgent meaning. Three-dimensional history First, the lesson we should urgently learn is...
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A Different Post-Corona US?
In the times of the Corona pandemic, many worry about a loss of civil liberties and how democratic governments may infinitely extend some limitations to constantly control our comings and goings. Some...
View ArticleFrance: Au Revoir, Monsieur Philippe
In France, it is the time-honored prerogative of the president to change his government whenever it suits him. A change of guard After a surge in support for the Greens in local elections last Sunday,...
View ArticleBeyond Fauci: When Doctors Are Victims
The persecution of doctors, scientists and all those that have the courage to go up against the accepted knowledge or norms of the times is an ancient practice. From Galileo to Fauci One of the most...
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Germany’s COVID 19 Comeback Story
Like all countries, Germany has its own special traits. It is more dependent on external trade and has managed to contain the virus better than most other major economies. Nonetheless, the German...
View ArticleVaccinations, Polio and COVID 19: A Personal Reflection
He was the cutest little boy. Like too many little children at the time and in the decades before, he was stricken by polio. He was three years old and I was eight. That was the first major shock of my...
View ArticleRestaurants and Society After COVID: A Report from London
Even before the tentacles of COVID 19 strangled the UK hospitality industry, observers of London’s ever-expanding restaurant scene had a suspicion that somewhere in the shadows of an alleyway between...
View ArticleImmunizing the World: Can We Do It?
It is not only a matter of morality — but also an issue of general protection and even of geopolitics: It is necessary to immunize the world, or at least to try to, and to this end to launch a global...
View ArticleCOVID and Mr. Modi’s Beard
India’s ongoing COVID-19 tsunami has turned the country into a global hotspot. The horrific scale of the pandemic’s latest outbreak in the world’s largest democracy has come as a shock to audiences...
View ArticleJapan: To Mask or Not to Mask?
As the pandemic wanes in some parts of the world, to mask or not to mask is the question du jour. There are those who can’t wait to get rid of their facial coverings and others who plan to make the...
View ArticleBoris Johnson: Just blame the French!
The dead cat political tactic is attributed to Sir Lynton Crosby. He is the man who helped Boris Johnson to become Mayor of London and whose political magic is still regarded with awe in Tory circles....
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Vaccination Rejection in Historical Context
Roughly one in every five adults in the United States is strongly opposed to obtaining any vaccination against COVID. Many more are among the even larger share of the U.S. population that has not yet...
View ArticleWhat Really Threatens Covid-19 Vaccinations For All
The battle against the most serious global pandemic for over a century is at a critical stage. Yet more inequality The effort to vaccinate humanity is the latest front in the campaign against global...
View ArticleFacing the Possibility of a Long Pandemic
Nobody knows how COVID-19 will evolve, whether it is going to last much longer or will run out of steam relatively soon. The “Spanish flu” of 1918-1920 claimed 50 million lives, according to most...
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