We are in a historic moment defined by a sustained structural crisis of the world-system, whose symptoms began to be expressed in the 1970s; and impacted by the new coronavirus pandemic, which dramatically exposes the incapacity of world-system structures to respond to human needs. Let us look succinctly at the function and evolution of these structures.... More


The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has requested extra support to assist millions of children living in the Middle East and North Africa, affected by the misfortunes of war and who are now been threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic.... More


As part of the strategy to confront COVID-19, Cuba has increased the number of diagnostic tests.  In the country, nearly two thousand samples are being analyzed daily to detect possible infections.... More


Few expected Washington to face up squarely to the deficiencies in the U.S. federal response to COVID-19, but fewer imagined that it would be so desperate in scapegoating others.... More


Henry Kissinger was secretary of state and national security adviser in the Nixon and Ford administrations.

In an article in the Wall Street Journal on April 3, Henry Kissinger asserts that “The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order,” and that the United States must plan for a new epoch. In truth Kissinger does not envision a new epoch, but repair of a damaged global political-economic system... More


The United States has some of the world's most innovative scientists. Yet their ability to imagine can be easily outshined when some Washington politicians scramble to smear China during the coronavirus pandemic.... More


The Cuban evening news television/radio program La Mesa Redonda of April 13 was dedicated to the theme of the battle of Cuban science against Covid-19, including efforts to make a vaccine. ... More


The COVID-19 pandemic is now present in most countries of Africa, where there are more than 16,500 infected people and nearly 900 deaths.... More


Yemen: Caught between two fronts

The United Nations warns that Yemen could soon be placed in between two fronts -- war and a pandemic -- a situation overwhelmingly uncertain for the Yemeni people, who have been subjected for five years to a brutal military aggression led by Saudi Arabia and supported by Western powers.... More


Covid-19: Lessons from Cuba

In the battle against Covid-19, Cuba has important lessons to teach the world.... More


U.S. President Donald Trump and the governor of the influential state of New York, Andrew Cuomo, have been arguing over the eventual re-opening of the American economy, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues wreaking havoc on the U.S. Empire.... More


Washington is not only trying to shirk its responsibility, but also seeks to undermine the WHO's irreplaceable role in coordinating global efforts to combat the pandemic.... More


The people overwhelmingly support the anti-Covid 19 measures, and the government exhorts the slackers to get on board.

On the evening television/radio news program La Mesa Redonda on April 10, Dr. Rolando Pérez Rodríguez, Director of Science and Innovation of BioCubaFarma, and Dr. Gerardo E. Guillén Nieto, Director of Biomedical Research of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology of BioCubaFarma, spoke of the determined and dedicated efforts of Cuban scientific researchers to develop a vaccine to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic.... More


Cuban research in vanguard of fight against coronavirus.

Hundreds of Cuban scientists from many research centers, institutions, and university faculty departments are racing against the clock, working to save lives before they are taken by a new virus sweeping the world.... More


In the midst of the critical epidemiological situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump is doing something that he has wanted to do for a long time -- the mass deportation of undocumented migrants whose asylum requests were being processed.... More


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