Tag: Covid-pandemic
Why we need a movement to abolish COVID vaccine patents now
While the call by activists to waive TRIPS is an important first step to scale up COVID vaccines, it actually needs to be abolished.
With pandemic a ‘tipping point,’ UN warns 1 billion more people...
Unless strong and meaningful action is taken now, including major social investments and a Green New Deal-style program, the Covid-19 crisis will make an already dire economic situation much worse.
Election, legal disasters, surging Covid cases, economy stumbling: Just “too much...
Major irony: the perceived, 2016 “change” candidate was and is utterly incapable of change.
How to keep indoor air clean to reduce the chance of...
Using increased ventilation or running an appropriately sized air cleaner or filter can add an extra layer of protection.
‘Absolute robbery’: Gilead announces $3,120 price tag for Covid-19 drug developed...
“Taxpayers provided funding for the development of this drug. Now Gilead is price-gouging off it during a pandemic. Beyond disgusting,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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Georgia judge strikes down six-week abortion ban in landmark ruling, citing women’s rights and...
Reproductive rights advocates celebrate a major victory, as Judge Robert McBurney rules the LIFE Act unconstitutional and restores abortion access up to 22 weeks of pregnancy.
Trump suggests ‘one day of brutal police force’ to end crime, citing immigrants as...
As Trump spreads baseless claims about rising crime, he calls for a day of violent police action targeting immigrants, prompting backlash and comparisons to authoritarian regimes.
Federal judge rules fluoridation an ‘unreasonable risk’ to health of children
The EPA will be required to take regulatory action to restrict or eliminate the risk by law.
Will Harris lose the election over Gaza?
A deeper dive into the polls does indeed show that Harris's inability to take a stand against Israeli violence can indeed lead to a Trump victory.
‘Escalation dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000 Holocausts
Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”