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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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.