The groundless criticism peddled by some U.S. politicians was not echoed by others, as China has taken solid actions to assist other countries and regions in beating the coronavirus and made great contributions to international human rights endeavors.... More
The Republic of Azerbaijan, in its capacity as President of the Non-Aligned Movement, convoked for May 4, 2020 a Virtual Summit, “United against Covid-19.” The Non-Aligned Movement has 120 members nations, which constitutes two-thirds of the members of the United Nations and represent 55% of the world’s population.... More
Statement by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, president of the Republic of Cuba for the Online Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in response to COVID-19... More
The unrestrained expansion of COVID-19 in Brazil -- a country that has nearly 90,000 confirmed cases and more than 6,000 deaths -- and the indifference of its authorities to this situation is scaring several neighboring countries.... More
“The tens of thousands of scientists and doctors that our country has were educated to save lives. This is the pride of our doctors, and our research centers. Tens of thousands of Cuban doctors have provided international service in the most remote and inhospitable places.”—Fidel Castro... More
The U.S. State Department is circulating a new document to put pressure on the countries that have requested Cuban medical brigades or collaboration agreements.... More
Many analysts of the Left see the Covid-19 pandemic as demonstrating the failure of neoliberalism as a societal model.... More
Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro, after one year and four months in the presidency, is having a hard time seeing that he may be approaching the end of his administration, while the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the poorest sectors of his country.... More
The Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates the inadequacy of the national health care systems of the world as well as the insufficient voice of scientists in influencing social policies.... More
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
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
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