... reason that many of the fundamental changes are related not so much to the pandemic itself as they are to long-term fundamental processes that are taking place in the development of information and communication technologies and in the economy as a whole. The coronavirus did not produce the Big Data concept, nor is it responsible for the unprecedented transparency of our social and private lives. It did not privilege multiple weak social connections (“friends” on social networks) over a few stable offline ...
... terminology used is semantically American, US-British. So a person without special investigative skills in “strategic communication” who just reads those texts immediately understands a great deal. It causes nothing but a smile because the people who write these things expose themselves in full view.
The political striptease we are observing against the background of the coronavirus pandemic is not very attractive and makes you want to look away. This time will pass, and other times will come. People will encounter different problems but we will still hear the same tunes about Russian disinformation, about our driving ...
... Building a national healthcare system is the sovereign business of the United States. But laying the blame on the WHO, China or Russia will not solve the problems of US health care and is unlikely to help in the fight against the disease.
Andrey Kortunov:
Coronavirus: A New Bug or Feature of World Politics?
The attack on the WHO fits into Trump’s general doctrine of the primacy of US national interests over global or universal tasks. In the terminology of the American president, he simply rejects the “bad deal” and wants the WHO to work for America because the organisation ...
