Why India is Banking on Health Diplomacy to Grow African Footprint
India has stepped up its foreign policy re-engagement with African countries and has focused on health diplomacy.
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Good Friday and Easter Church Raid Attempts by Police Over Covid Intensify Conservative Christian Vaccine Hesitancy
A doctor describes how the officialdom’s arrogant, “one size fits all” vaccine messaging is backfiring by alienating conservative Christians.
Read more...Martin Luther King’s America Redux: “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”
Liz Theoharis commemorates the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech.
Read more...Life in a Remote Alaskan Community on the Front Line of Climate Change
Whittier, Alaska, copes with a pandemic and climate change, and confronts the daunting prospects of a Prince Williams Sound tsunami.
Read more...The ‘Roaring Twenties’ and Covid Recovery: Revisiting the Evidence for Europe
Are the Roaring Twenties an analogue for what a post Covid economy would look like?
Read more...Christian Nationalism Is a Barrier to Mass Vaccination Against COVID-19
Some Christian evangelicals are rejecting Covid vacccines, and some of the current approches to increasing uptake will backfire with them.
Read more...Preparing for a Wave of Non-Performing Loans: Are Banks at Risk?
On a aggregate basis, EU banks appear to have enough capital to weather even a bad Covid storm. A country-by-country look tells another story.
Read more...A Covid Tragedy: “Wholesale Discrediting of Our Health Science Institutions”
How science, or perhaps more accurately, “Trust the science,” is dangerously being treated as just another political chip.
Read more...Is Dr. Fauci Trying to Steal the Credit for All the Vaccines Delivered by Operation Warp Speed?
Cutting the Fauci propaganda effort down to size.
Read more...Our Collective Long Covid
Why Covid will be with us for a very long time.
Read more...Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mortality and economic data show that stingy government spending and resistance to redistrbution have increased Covid health costs.
Read more...Need Amid Plenty: Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger
While every U.S. county has seen hunger rates rise, the steepest jumps have been in some of the wealthiest counties, where overall affluence obscures the tenuous finances of low-wage workers.
Read more...End Vaccine Apartheid Before Millions More Die
More on the vaccine atrocities perpetrated by Big Pharma, aided and abetted by first world countries.
Read more...How the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik Played His Readers for Chumps on Outdoor Dining and Aerosols — Including Me
The New Yorker anatomizes outdoor dining, without telling readers how to dine safely.
Read more...The Ancient Roots of “Doing Nothing”: Is Idleness a Form Of Resistance — Or Just an Indulgence for the Lucky Few?
The ethics of idleness.
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