The Covid-19 crisis, the most serious global health crisis in a century, forces us to fundamentally rethink the notion of international solidarity. Beyond the right to produce vaccines and medical equipment, it is the whole question of the right of poor countries to develop and to receive part of the tax revenues of the world’s multinationals and billionaires that must be asked. We need to move beyond the neo-colonial notion of international aid, paid at the whim of rich countries and under their control, and finally move towards a logic of rights.
Climate Crisis
Carbon Brief: Analysis: Coronavirus set to cause largest ever annual fall in CO2 emissions
The global coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold at a staggering pace, decimating lives, livelihoods and the normal functioning of society, as well as interrupting energy demand and CO2 emissions. Read here
Corruption
Bill Mitchell: The European Union once again reveals why it should be dissolved
With laws and rules and everything being “so complicated” the EU avoids any real scrutiny. Bill Mitchell is one of the few exception.s Read here
Finance
Hannah Brenton: Silence speaks volumes as Switzerland still reels from bank meltdown
In Switzerland, no one wants to talk about one of their biggest banks just collapsed. In Politico. Read the article HERE.
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