After a year of mask wearing and social distancing could the coronavirus pandemic really be coming to an end?
Alexander Freund, DW: Is the end of the coronavirus pandemic in sight?
Many people fear mutations and a third wave, but COVID-19 infection rates are falling worldwide.
Is the virus losing steam or are health measures finally having an effect?
Now that spring is in the air in the Northern Hemisphere, many people are losing patience. They want perspective on when the lockdown will gradually be eased, when they can finally expect to be vaccinated, when the dust will finally settle.
The debate was fueled by alleged WHO statements concerning an imminent end to the coronavirus pandemic. Supposedly, World Health Organization (WHO) Director for Europe Hans Henri Kluge told Danish radio that the pandemic would be "over in a few months."
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 1, 2021
Covid-19 seeds of Asia’s next financial crisis -- William Pesek, Asia Times
Myanmar sanctions will not stop the bloodshed -- Zeya Thu, DW
Why protest signs in Myanmar are in English -- CSM Editorial
Guns fall silent on India-Pakistan border -- MK Bhadrakumar, Asia Times
Pakistan-Afghanistan border fence, a step in the right direction -- Abdul Basit, Al Jazeera
America can't ignore the next Indo-Pakistani crisis -- War On The Rocks
Why Biden can't turn back the clock on the Iran nuclear deal -- Raphael S. Cohen, The Hill
Joe Biden’s Pressure On Saudi Arabia Has High Stakes -- Ilan Berman, National Interest
Arab-Israel normalization likely to slow under Joe Biden -- Dalal Saoud, UPI
Flip the gray zone script: How the US can customize its approach to China -- Craig Singleton, Defense News
How the Pentagon Got Inside ISIS’ Chemical Weapons Operation—and Ended It -- Joby Warrick, Politico
The way out of Somalia’s political impasse -- Afyare Elmi, Al Jazeera
Nikol Pashinyan Is Armenia’s Prime Problem -- Mark Episkopos, National Interest
How The Kremlin’s Years of Conspiracy Spreading Are Biting Back -- Ilya Yablokov, Moscow Times
Journalism is so God-awful in 2021 that in all the "new stories" I have read about the coup in Myanmar, not a single article has given a clear explanation about why the Myanmar military launched a coup-- beyond the military's own explanation that the recent elections were rigged. Nor have I seen any "news stories" explaining if the military's claim is true, false, or partly true. All the "news stories" write about is how the noble protesters are willing to sacrifice themselves to protest against the "militaty junta". But military coups happen for a reason and I don't feel confident in saying the Myanmar military's reason was wrong, in the absence of any real coverage.
ReplyDelete(continued) The world is awash in so much disinformation and propaganda that it is sickening.
ReplyDeleteNo, it isn't
ReplyDeleteI think the people in power, those who stole trillions from you while you were busy following pandemic orders, THOSE people know that the population realizes what it was all about. Money and power.
ReplyDeleteAnd those people recognize that if they push it further, we will not wait for the law any longer, but outright murder them.
These demonic ghouls pretending to be humans while everything themselves of the backs of humans. They're scum. Parasites.
And this is the last warning they get.
Try it one more time and it's death.
That simple.
stop blaming journalism
ReplyDeletethe military said one thing and the power in place said another. One or the other is right:
The army alleges the recent landslide election win by Ms Suu Kyi's party was marred by fraud. She urged supporters to "protest against the coup".
In a letter written in preparation for her impending detention, she said the military's actions would put the country back under a dictatorship.