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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI’ll tell you what’s ramping up – my anger at the UK government’s disingenuous script
Ministers talk as if the COVID-19 outbreak is all going to plan. I love escapist fantasy too, but the facts suggest...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhat does the coronavirus tell us about the West’s image of Asia – and itself?
In a time of pandemic and radical uncertainty, we face tests of individualism, governance, globalised capitalism,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCOVID-19 in Iraq: the virus of social inequality
The coronavirus is above all a fight against the corrupt state and the social inequalities produced by it.
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Published in: TransformationCoronavirus and climate activism: five common lessons
The pandemic is a testing ground for how to address the climate crisis, and vice-versa.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“After coronavirus” – Macron's promise
“Bruno le Maire explained solemnly that France was a rich country… We can spend in this moment of crisis… But spend on what?”
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSectarianism will not defeat coronavirus: no one is immune
Are religious ideologues on coronavirus threatening to tear apart the much needed human solidarity to overcome the pandemic?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionA letter in support of Albin Kurti's acting government
Intellectuals and academics stand in solidarity with Albin Kurti and the citizens of Kosovo in these difficult times.
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Published in: HomeUK security services face some awkward questions when the pandemic is over
The government knew that pandemics were a major threat – and that the NHS was not ready to handle one. So why have...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationEcuador and Costa Rica promise to probe US-backed ‘crisis pregnancy centres’
Health authorities say they'll open formal investigations following openDemocracy's reporting – though it’s unclear...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Enlarging the context on COVID-19: Europe and Africa
As the dust on the first brutal phase of the pandemic settles in Europe, containment of the pandemic cannot succeed...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionIs treating the Covid-19 with chloroquine reckless?
Amid rush for finding a treatment for the pandemic, a French doctor, a climate change denier and known for his...
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Published in: Home‘The Experiment of Development’: the source of our progress has become the source of our downfall
As the United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary amidst a global pandemic, interconnected challenges and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Privacy, public health and the pandemic
What we have to guard against is the diffusion of emergency logics across time and space, not the redefinition of...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightGermany: is the COVID-19 pandemic weakening the far right?
German far-right responses to the COVID-19 pandemic reveal their lack of social responsibility.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaChile: The virus is also the model
With privatized health care and a right-wing government, Chile is struggling with the coronavirus epidemic. The...
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Published in: HomeCovid, conflict, climate – and our crying need to be more resilient
As we look to the future and come out of lockdown and other restrictions, we have to act.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionStop blaming ordinary people for the UK’s pandemic failures
Boris Johnson has presided over a public policy disaster. Now, he wants you to blame your neighbours. Don't.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?#Clapforcarers: why grassroots solidarity against Coronavirus matters
As people see that we all depend for our safety on the state and its health system, they realise that contra...
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Published in: Global ExtremesWhat the ‘war on terror’ can teach us about the fight against COVID-19
‘Extremism’ must not be cast as an epidemic. But we can learn relevant lessons from the problems created in countering it.
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Published in: ourEconomyShould countries build stockpiles of essential supplies?
The coronavirus has led to a sharp spike in the demand for basic supplies. But the principle of stockpiling goods is not new.