UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for concerted global action to quash the “tsunami” of hate speech that has risen alongside the COVID-19 pandemic. He further said the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering. The UN chief said anti-foreigner sentiment has surged online and in the streets, anti-Semitic...
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Anthony Fauci: From Infectious Disease Expert To Political Football
Anthony Fauci is fast transforming from an independent doctor into a political football, with the latest proof of his metamorphosis being the White House’s refusal to let him testify before the Democrat-controlled House’s Appropriations Committee that’s investigating the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19. Prior to that, the nation’s top infectious disease expert drew attention for...
100-year-old Muslim man raises $92K for coronavirus victims while fasting
A Muslim man has been strolling up and down his garden to raise funds for victims of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) across the world, especially those in the United Kingdom and Bangladesh. Hundred-year-old Dabirul Choudhury, who was born in Bangladesh, was inspired by the phenomenal record-breaking efforts of Tom Moore, a British veteran who raised...
Opinion | COVID-19: The Danger Of Sectioning Off Humanity Into ‘Races’ And ‘Worlds’
All of us are trying to adjust to the unforeseen changes brought about by the onset of COVID-19. The transition to the virtual world has not been a cakewalk for everyone. Several people, particularly of my parents’ generation, are not technology friendly but are now having to adapt to talking with friends and family via...
Opinion | “Belt and Road” Regionalization: Pakistan’s Gwadar Port Opens Afghan Trade to the World
The successful opening of Gwadar Port to Afghanistan lays the basis for expanding this trade network to Central Asia and Russia via N-CPEC+, which sets a positive example for how BRI-led regionalization can rejuvenate globalization after the coronavirus is finally defeated. The speculative talk about the coronavirus supposedly signaling the impending end of globalization was...
The Case for Science in Pandemic times
Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible? The headlines of today governed by pandemic have radicalized the interpretation of progress. The less attractive picture has been drawn before us and the global currency of modernity is devalued. The alienation of nations, immobile human beings...
Opinion | COVID-19: We Are At The Crossroads Of Human Civilization
We are at the crossroads of our civilization. The COVID-19 virus is speeding up the destruction of the system as we know it in the Western World and is ready to create a whole new society, where the oppressed will become the free and the oppressors will fall. We now have the choice to eliminate...
Deciphering The Deep State’s Latest Kim Jong-Un Conspiracy
CNN’s report from a single unnamed US government source that the North Korean leader “is in grave danger after undergoing a previous surgery” isn’t all that credible, but the very fact that it’s being pushed so strongly at this particular moment says a lot about the intentions of the network’s “deep state” patrons. The Root...
World Health Organization Post Covid-19: The tangled web of Legitimacy (Crisis) and (Post) Neutrality
The World Health Organisation(WHO) is currently facing an image problem. We all are aware about the existence of WHO but very few have any idea about what it does. Is it a world medical association,a transnational health body or a source for technical medical reports with an overview ofbureaucracy. According to the organisation’s constitution drafted...
Oil Collapse and COVID-19 Crisis: Demand Plummeting vis-a-vis Future of Oil Politics
World future holds much uncertainty due to rapidly expanding Coronavirus outbreak all over the world. Its drastic impacts will be out of control one’s would imagine today. The post Covid 19 Period will be remembered as tragic event of the twenty first century with numerous looming challenges. Emergency in Health system, Economic recession, mass recovery...