“I Can’t Breathe”: Enough is Enough

Minneapolis is literally on fire since George Floyd, 46, became the latest in a long line of black men and women to die in police custody. Derek Chauvin was called to the scene because Floyd was accused of writing a bad cheque; the scene climaxed with Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck, brutally suffocating him in broad daylight.

A Battle for Supremacy, But At What Cost?

President Trump recently decided to suspend US fundings to the World Health Organization, accusing the body of mismanaging the current COVID-19 crisis and being too China-centric. While the rivalry between Beijing and Washington dates back to the 1970s, today, the tension between the two superpowers could lead to a catastrophic response to the virus.

PRIMARIES 2020: Bernie ‘Till I Die

Bernie Sanders si è ritirato dalla corsa.
Fine dei giochi.
Al momento giusto ha lasciato a Biden il compito di battere Trump. Il momento storico e sociale lo imponeva. Il virus aveva bloccato la macchina delle primarie e il voto “via posta” (o con altri metodi) non avrebbe dato lo stesso segnale di sostegno ad un candidato come il voto tradizionale.

The Parasite of Capitalism

From Parasite to a parasite, that is how the global focus has shifted in these first months of the nefarious 2020.

Unfortunately, just weeks later another parasite ramped on into the spotlight, with the breaking of the novel Coronavirus infecting over 200.000 people in the span of just two months, bringing the world into quarantine.

However, these two “parasites” share a similar menacing truth: they inherit flaws of the capitalist system which now more than ever is exposing its true unnatural features.