Tag: Covid
Factory farms and the next pandemic: How industrial animal agriculture fuels...
Zoonotic diseases linked to factory farming raise pandemic risks, but food tech innovations offer a safer alternative.
‘For shame’: Pfizer to charge $1,390 for lifesaving Covid drug that...
"Pfizer treats Paxlovid like a Prada handbag; a luxury for the few rather than a treatment for the many," said one consumer advocate.
Hypocrisy abounds as PPP loans to 1% forgiven, while Biden seeks...
Word has leaked out that the Biden administration is about to enter negotiations with Big Pharma, for the express intent of shifting the cost of COVID vaccines and lifesaving antiviral medications, to the patient.
Medicare for All could have prevented more than 338,000 US Covid...
"Healthcare reform is long overdue in the U.S.," said the lead author of a new study. "Americans are needlessly losing lives and money."
Two years in, we need to learn the lessons of this...
It’s time we flex the power that comes with being essential and fight for a new economy that favors people, not just corporations.
Number of Covid boosters given in US exceeds single shots in...
“Our leaders’ failure to help bring the vaccines to everyone, everywhere will keep us on a cruel and never-ending cycle of illness, death, and economic suffering.”
For some Indigenous, COVID presents possibility of cultural extinction, says Myrna...
For Indigenous peoples, actions must be collective, not only individual.
‘It’s almost like grooming’: how anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists, and the far-right...
They appear to have found fertile ground particularly among men who feel alienated, fearful about their employment and who spend a lot of time at home scrolling social media and encrypted messaging apps.
Corporate media politicize WHO investigation on COVID origins to vilify China
The lab leak hypothesis is, in fact, a literal conspiracy theory that is gaining traction due to constant media innuendo.
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump Iran post raising insider trading concerns
Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.
No king but madness reigns
Today I'll survey several factors feeding this unfolding fiasco.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.