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People line up to buy face masks from a medical supply company in Nanning, China on 29 January 2020. © 2020 Chinatopix.
What we have experienced in the past two months is too dreamy and now, in retrospect, it seems not so real.

Eric Zuesse

Eric ZUESSE

Tunisia is the Middle East’s greatest success story, according to the findings of the V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2019. One of the world’s most regarded annual reports on democracy and good governance, the V-Dem Report is produced by the V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. 

Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White party, abandoned the central plank of his platform at the weekend – that he would never sit in a coalition with Benjamin Netanyahu, who has led Israel continuously for the past 11 years.
A former military general, Gantz justified his dramatic change of course under cover of claims that Israel needed an “emergency” unity government to deal with the coronavirus epidemic.

Tunisia is the Middle East’s greatest success story, according to the findings of the V-Dem Annual Democracy Report 2019.
One of the world’s most regarded annual reports on democracy and good governance, the V-Dem Report is produced by the V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy) Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

A 21st Century Worldview: Interviewing Ahmet Davutoğlu

The Deep State’s Demolition of Democracy
by James Bovard
March 26, 2020

After the warlord period of 15th century, Japan was united by a few families and then by a shogun family.  The period is called the Edo period. They disarmed civilians and established a mild caste system. The country was closed except for a few ports controlled by the central government, travel restrictions were put in place and certain technological developments were prohibited.

The fact that America needs a major change in healthcare is indisputable, and Bernie Sanders has made a career promoting the idea that socialism may not be antagonistic to the American way of life in the modern era. As the fear of a new pandemic spreads through the global psyche, serious discussion is now occurring about what role government must play in dealing with this crisis.