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In the very near future, countries are going to have to choose whether they make guns or vaccines.

The New York governor is replacing elected representatives with private, unaccountable monopolists, and lawmakers across the US are doing the same thing. Too many decision-makers are ceding their policy to corporate power and private sector privileg

Vietnam is building on the internationalist traditions of Ho Chi Minh. True patriotism, is quite different from narrow, selfish nationalism - it should always respect the rights and interests of other nations without harming common interests...

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One thing seems clear: we are not going back to where we were, to business as usual. Greece's former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and Irish economist David McWilliams on the hope for a global new deal.

During the Great Depression, local, state, and federal policymakers refused to cut and invested. Doesn't the present moment call for similar visionary action for public institutions like CUNY and the people they educate for generations to come?

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Studies of past emerging disease epidemics have taught us that testing alone will not prevent new outbreaks. To re-open the economy we must undertake the most massive effort to trace and isolate new infections in history.

As we head into the fifth month of the outbreak millions of working families feel like they have been kidnapped and sent to hell.