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    Sanctions are crippling Iran's fight against coronavirus | Pirouz Hanachi

    Sanctions are crippling Iran’s fight against coronavirus Pirouz Hanachi As mayor of Tehran I have seen lives lost as a result of medical shortages. This is no time for vindictive politics • Coronavirus latest updates • See all our coronavirus coverage A temporary hospital for coronavirus patients at an exhibition centre in Tehran, Iran: ‘As […] More

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    Why Are Mexico and Brazil So Slow in Reacting to COVID-19?

    The COVID-19 pandemic has placed almost the entire world on lockdown. The current crisis is often compared to historic events such as the two World Wars, the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 or 9/11. The worst-case modeling of the spread of the novel coronavirus predicts millions of deaths on top of immeasurable economic consequences across […] More

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    The US Bailout’s Undersized Oversight

    The major political news in the US from last week concerned the coronavirus bailout bill eventually agreed by both parties and submitted for signing by President Donald Trump. One controversial part of the law focusing on helping businesses in distress drew the ire of Democrats, who worried that it could turn out to be Secretary […] More

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    COVID-19 Makes Johnson and Trump Reject Thatcher and Reagan

    In 1978-79, the United Kingdom experienced the winter of discontent. Trade unions around the country went on strike. On January 22, 1979, the UK experienced the largest strike action since the General Strike of 1926. Even gravediggers and waste collectors joined in, leaving corpses and rubbish piling up. A bitterly cold winter with blizzards and heavy […] More

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    Ignore the bankers – the Trump economy is not worth more coronavirus deaths | Robert Reich

    Ignore the bankers – the Trump economy is not worth more coronavirus deaths Robert Reich CEOs, billionaires and advisers have the president’s ear and want people back to work. They are callous – and wrong US coronavirus outbreak: live Global coronavirus outbreak: live Read all our coronavirus coverage Defense Secretary Mark Esper and President Donald […] More

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    COVID-19: Will We Learn the Lessons?

    Many Western governments are willing to climb any mountain and pay any price to save lives. In the process, many of them are also politicizing their response to the coronavirus pandemic while acting too late and too meekly, setting the stage for what is yet to come. The West can learn a lot from the […] More

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    How to Kill People to Save an Outmoded Idea of the Economy

    US President Donald Trump will go down in history as the ultimate master of hyperreal politics. No matter how far he deviates from reality, the American public consistently expresses its approval. The further he wanders from rationality, even when the consequences are measurable in the number of deaths, the more he is rewarded. In the […] More

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    US stimulus package may be massive but it won’t be enough | Larry Elliott

    $2tn coronavirus rescue deal dwarfs 2008 bailout but there will still be pain Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Wall Street is awaiting the weekly jobs report with trepidation as unemployment could triple. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA The precise details of the US stimulus package are still to be revealed but some things […] More