Public health and private profits under COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic might be devastating countries, the people and their livelihoods, but is good for some companies and their stockholders, like the ones that hold patents for N95 masks, lifesaving medicines or vaccines.
India’s failed lockdown: devastating the poor, weakening the fight against COVID-19
A large-scale migration of people during the lockdown will only spread infections rapidly across the country. Meanwhile, food and other supplies are drying up as supply chains are slowly coming apart under pressure.
COVID-19: know it so that we can fight it
A successful fight against the COVID-19 pandemic needs to be fought by understanding the disease and uniting the people. This is the lesson that the divisive Modi government in India refuses to learn
Covid-19 Pandemic Poses Fundamental Challenges to all Societies
Quick and widespread testing and quarantine will help tackle the spread of Covid-19, not ultra-nationalism or hyper-capitalism.
World at a tipping point as COVID-19 cases cross 100,000
Every country needs to prepare and prepare now, with testing capacities, infrastructure to quarantine suspected cases, and hospital infrastructure to isolate patients in special negative pressure rooms
Paying Uncle Sam for stealing our secrets
Recent media reports revealed the extent of US and German intelligence control of the Swiss company, Crypto AG. Through this company, they hacked into encrypted communications of a huge number of countries
The novel coronavirus and the virus of new cold war
Some of the brickbats that western media and the governments are hurling at the Chinese is racist. Most of it is a continuation of the new cold war that Trump and co. have unleashed on China
India’s data protection bill: from protecting data to a surveillance state
India’s Personal Data Protection bill provides some protection against big digital companies, but none against big government. The objective is a surveillance state where any criticism of the government would be considered sedition