Indian Farmers Are Staring at Suicide as Modi Government Looks the Other Way
An account from India on farmer suicide and why many could have been prevented.
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Trump Admin Retracts Rule that Would Have Cancelled Visas for Foreign College Students Who Only Study Online
Trump backs down on plan too toss out foreign students who are forced to study on-line, as many universities circumscribe in-person classes,
Read more...COVID-19 Mistakes to Avoid: Don’t Conflate Contact Tracing with Contact Tracing By App
Big Tech and Big Pharma each has a dog in the COVID-19 fight and wish to replace what has worked before and is working now with technofixes.
Read more...2020’s Plague of Locusts Spreads to Indian Subcontinent and South America
State of play for locust infestations in Nepal, Pakistan, India, Argentina, Brazil…. and the United States.
Read more...No, We Don’t Need to Place Our Faith in Downloading Some Untested, Privacy-Infringing App as the Only Possible COVID-19 Slayer; Why Don’t We Look to Places that Have Successfully Limited Disease Spread and Copy Their Policies?
Ars Technica clutches pearls at poll showing decline in those willing to download privacy-infringing app to stymie spread of COVID-19.
Read more...Food Security: UN Warns People Are Vulnerable to Shortages as the COVID-19 Pandemic Continues
United Nations warns about food security, particularly for the world’s poorest, as the COVID-19 recession overwhelms the globe.
Read more...States Sue Drug Companies and Execs for Generic Price-Fixing; Is the Tide Turning on Willingness to Allow Big Pharma a Get Out of Jail Free Card for its Egregious Behavior?
State AGs sue drug companies and their executives for alleged price-fixing. Are we willing to rescind Big Pharma’s Get Out of Jail Free Card?
Read more...Scientists Around the World are Already Fighting the Next Pandemic
Scientists fight the next pandemic, driven by antibiotic resistance, where the technofix fairy won’t help, and the simplest solutions are the most sustainable.
Read more...How Africa is Coping With Coronavirus
Politics and the caliber of social programs have influenced how countries in Africa have tried to limit the economic damage of the coronavirus.
Read more...COVID-19 Impact on the Fashion Industry: Slow Down
The pace of the wasteful fashion industry will slow as we learn to cope with COVID-19. Will sustainability become more than a buzzword?
Read more...Public Health and Private Profits Under COVID-19 Pandemic
More discussion of how the private sector is undermining responses to Covid-19.
Read more...Coronavirus-Induced Food Supply Disruptions Hitting Farmers, Poor Consumers
Food scarcity is already starting to bite in the US and is likely to become a serious problem in much of the world.
Read more...India’s Poorest Now Have Access to Basic Bank Accounts, and Many Already Received their First Cash Stimulus Payment By Last Saturday; Meanwhile the IRS May Get You Your $1200 Check in Five Months
A tale of two stimuli: the Modi government has already made some direct deposits; some Americans will wait five months to receive checks.
Read more...Saving Citizens, Killing the Poor: India and COVID-19
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s imposition of a 21-day lockdown in India to stem COVID-19 transmission triggered vast migration of the poor.
Read more...Informal Workers in the Time of Coronavirus
Not surprisingly, people who don’t have regular jobs will be very hard hit by the coronavirus crisis. And there are a lot of them.
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