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31 Mar 2020

US prisons begin release of inmates after COVID-19 pandemic engulfs system

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Sam Dalton On Monday the official total of positive COVID-19 cases in New York City prisons rose to 167 prisoners, 114 staff and 23 pri...

The profit system is sabotaging the struggle against the coronavirus

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Patrick Martin The profit drive of big American corporations is a major factor in impeding the efforts of doctors, nurses and other hea...

COVID-19 and Left Wing Extremism in India: Emerging Concerns

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Rajat Kumar Kujur Left wing extremism (LWE) is known to be India’s biggest internal security threat. LWE conflict zones are home to a var...
30 Mar 2020

The New World of Coronavirus

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Cesar Chelala The tragedy of September 11, 2001, and the coronavirus pandemic have one thing in common: both caused a seismic change in...

Confronting the crisis of internally displaced Indians

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Swapna Gopinath India is currently facing a crisis which can escalate into a bigger catastrophe than COVID-19 and the consequences can ...

Hungary’s Orbán government seizes on coronavirus pandemic to establish dictatorship

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Markus Salzmann Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is using the COVID-19 epidemic to establish dictatorial rule. Following the decla...

Sri Lankan president grants clemency to war criminal

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Vimukthi Vidarshana On March 26, Sri Lankan President Gotabhaya Rajapakse released Sunil Ratnayake, a former Sri Lanka army sergeant co...

Japanese government planning attacks on democratic rights on pretext of pandemic

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Ben McGrath Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday gave his third news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic, warning that if the...

Coronavirus cases surge in Turkey as anger grows among workers at government response

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Baris Demir According to the Ministry of Health, Turkey’s death toll from the coronavirus increased by 23 to 131 yesterday, as the numb...

Duterte reacts to COVID-19 with military repression

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Joseph Santolan As of Sunday evening, 1,418 people in the Philippines had been official recorded as infected with COVID-19, a number wh...