Tuesday, April 23, 2024

#PeoplesWave Rises Up For #MedicareForAll

We took the streets because people – our people – are dying from corporate greed and government complacency. We need solutions to our health care crisis now, not later.

As US ‘drowning’ in unused doses, WHO Chief laments ‘horrifying injustice’ of Covid-19 vaccine...

“None of us is safe until all of us are safe. The tragedy of this pandemic is that it could have been under control by now, if vaccines had been allocated more equitably.”

America wants health care, not walls

We can only hope that the Democrats who won a new mandate on health care in November will now find the courage to deliver on big ideas like in-state single-payer programs, and push for Medicare for All at the federal level.

Covid is resurging. So is Trumpian politics.

Months ago, it seemed as if this darkness was behind us. It is not.

The great forgetting

Why we forget epidemics and why this one must be remembered...

Why coronavirus is humanity’s wake-up call

As we respond to the coronavirus emergency and the immediate needs of the people and communities impacted by it, let us also keep in view the systemic needs and possibilities that crisis exposes.
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Coronavirus pandemic in US fueled by stunted CDC budget & lack of access to...

We are joined by two epidemiologists to examine the response so far around the world and in the United States.

New FDA Import Ban Means GMO Salmon Won’t Be Sold in U.S. Anytime Soon

AquaBounty’s product likely won’t be available to consumers until a federal labeling standard is established.

‘Guilty on all counts!’: In historic victory, Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in...

"This is a company that has always put profits ahead of public safety, and today, Monsanto has finally been held accountable."

Pfizer CEO—Biden’s ‘good friend’—is privately working to tank drug price reforms

Pfizer’s chief executive Albert Bourla is reportedly urging his employees to fight Democrats’ plan to let Medicare directly negotiate drug prices.