WebPublicaPress (New York) - It is due to global pandemic and special circumstances here in New York which became epicenter of the US outbreak of the coronavirus/Covid-19, that our web-magazine WebPublicaPress (WPP) will stop publishing for – hopefully short period of time. We plan to return in a short while…

By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS  - When US President Donald Trump repeatedly characterized the fast-spreading COVID-19 as a “Chinese virus” last week, it prompted some white supremacists to resurrect an age old ethnic slur against Chinese and East Asians: the “Yellow Peril” which, in a bygone era, was touted…

WebPublicaPress – UNITED NATIONS – At the normally busy headquarters of the United Nations in New York, life is suddenly moving at slow speed – very slow speed, AFP reported. This temple of multilateralism, with its daily meetings both large and small on world conflicts and almost every other subject, is…

By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — Truth is often stranger than fiction.  If somebody suggested a thriller novel plot set to the backdrop of gyrating stock markets, falling oil prices, rising tensions with Iran, amidst a spreading worldwide health pandemic, all juxtaposed to a contentious American Presidential election, most literary agents would gruffly…

WebPublicaPress (New York) — West Virginia is the latest US state to confirm a case of the novel coronavirus, meaning the virus is now in all 50 states. Australia declared a “biosecurity emergency” and told its citizens not to travel abroad news agencies (DW) reported. The virus has been confirmed in…

By Jennifer Collins (DW) - Rob Greenfield is on a mission to bring a sustainable living message to the world using unusual approaches from wearing the trash he produces and foraging for food to cycling penniless across the US on a bamboo bicycle. Rob Greenfield bounds over to a plant growing amidst…

WebPubliaPress (New York) – Taiwan’s number of COVID-19 infections is currently below 50, despite the island’s proximity to the outbreak’s epicenter on mainland China. Experts say early intervention has helped stop a public health crisis.   More than two months after a new virulent coronavirus emerged from the Chinese city of Wuhan, more than…