Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Covid-19 in Iraq: the virus of social inequality

On the epidemic situation The original text in French Sur la situation épidémique

Protecting the rich, exposing the poor to humanitarian and economic disaster

Saudi Arabia's "radical new oil strategy"

This "community surveillance" makes sense in this situation provided it is dismantled afterwards. But that should go along with mass testing (which should have been carried out from the very beginning) Copy and past the following headline to google search:  Germany’s virus response shines unforgiving light on Britain Community surveillance, community protection

In English and French Do it now. Right away Dés maintenant!

حين زارنا الطاعون

“It will be the survival of the fittest—no, the survival of the richest," Say South African shak dwellers

Uncovering filth: It takes a health crisis to 'discover' that some people exist and that they are 'essential'. "It is an open secret that the vast majority of people who harvest America’s food are undocumented immigrants, mainly from Mexico, many of them decades-long residents of the United States." Farmworkers, mostly undocumented, become 'essential'

كورونا والأزمة الاقتصادية التي نعيشها

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

What the Economist doesn't tell you

US:  The coronavirus class war has already started Italy: The corona crisis and the battle with the bosses

The myth of a progressive EU

How UK's coronovirus test strategy unravelled

The world rediscovers Cuba's medical internationalism ovid

What whould have happened if it was some Muslims/Muslim refugees who smuggled the coronavirus into Europe? List of incidents related to coronavirus

الحرب الطبقية الميكروبيولوجية في الصين

A good piece. We can't go back to normal

One of the things that Corona has exposed The grim crisis in Europe's care homes

War economy? Related: We are not the virus (I don't see though what the figure mentioned refers to: " During a crisis that has killed hundreds of thousands of people..."

£1bn of taxpayers' cash to help foreign countries buy British arms

"It seem clear that, for whatever reason, Western political systems have proven incapable of responding rationally, in time, to the Coronavirus threat. As Richard Horton writes of the government, overwhelming scientific evidence of an advancing threat did  not  generate the required action: 'For unknown reasons they waited. And watched.’

The article was written on 24 of March. A couple of figures are not up-to-date. Covid-19 Pandemic will change everything—for better or worse

War photography by David Pratt