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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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.