COVID-19 is so dangerous to food security because the global supply chain was insecure to begin with. Could we remake it?

COVID-19 is so dangerous to food security because the global supply chain was insecure to begin with. Could we remake it?
Far-right governments are rolling back environmental regulations, while international climate talks stall amid the crisis. But climate activists see opportunity.
War and sanctions have left behind a devastated health care system.
The late Martin Khor united activists, officials, and thought leaders against trade and climate policies that plundered the Global South. Here’s how his comrades remember him.
While political leaders scapegoat, overreach, and underperform, progressive organizers are developing an internationalist response to the coronavirus pandemic.
International cooperation needs to take priority right now, and countries must stop their wars against one another and against their own populations.
In an age of pandemics and climate crisis, countries’ health, environmental, and development policies are globally important.
U.S. sanctions have gutted Iran’s economy and health system. In a pandemic, that’s a global public health threat.
After another failed escalation in Syria, the Turkish president is increasingly isolated abroad and under scrutiny at home.
They persist because, for Americans, they don’t exist.