Tag: vaccine
Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China at the...
The U.S. military ran a secret anti-vaccination campaign at the height of the pandemic in the Philippines and other nations to sow doubt about COVID vaccines made by China, according to a new investigation by Reuters.
How a big pharma company stalled a potentially lifesaving vaccine in...
A vaccine against tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease, slowed after its corporate owner focused on more profitable vaccines.
New bill terminates vaccine requirement for air travelers to US
The argument against the bill states that this could put "American health care at risk."
Pfizer’s record-shattering $100 billion in revenue denounced as ‘sickening’
"A people-funded vaccine should be cheap and freely available."
‘The sheer greed is obscene’: Moderna plans 4,000% markup for COVID...
"We need to learn from this pandemic and break big pharma's monopolies."
Supreme Court blocks Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine rule for businesses
The Supreme Court ruled that under the law that created OSHA it "empowers the Secretary to set workplace safety standards, not broad public health measures."
My year and welcome to it
Here are four (million) of my own takeaways from 2021, a classic hell-on-Earth year that, if worse weren’t potentially on the horizon, could perhaps be quickly forgotten.
2.5 million nurses demand UN probe into ‘COVID-19 criminals’ blocking patent...
"Continued opposition to the TRIPS waiver is resulting in the violation of human rights of peoples across the world."
Moderna slammed for ‘cheating US taxpayers’ in COVID-19 vaccine patent dispute
Along with "being scientifically dishonest," and "trying to cheat NIH scientists," the company "is leaving people to die."
Eugenics rears its unsavory head: Vaccine schism saves the intelligent &...
Right-wing vaccine resistance could remove thousands of Trump voters in critical red states.
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Undebatable: What Harris and Trump could not say about Israel and Gaza
Silence is a blanket that smothers genuine democratic discourse and the outcries of moral voices. Making those voices inaudible is a key goal for the functioning of the warfare state.
How corporate news has tried to numb Americans to the horrors in Gaza
The process has become so routine that we might not recognize how omission and distortion have constantly shaped views of events since the war began in October.
What’s Trump’s escape valve when (or if) he realizes he’s losing? Bluster ...
There could be greater disruption than Jan. 6, but the enormous, co-ordinated might of law and order won’t get ambushed again.
USDA to distribute $2.2 billion in funding to Black farmers who experienced discrimination
The Biden administration announced it will distribute $2.2 billion in financial assistance to 43,000 farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners who were discriminated against in the agency's farm lending programs.
Nearly 200 environmental defenders killed in 2023, marking another deadly year
Nearly 200 environmental defenders were killed for protecting their lands and communities from ecological devastation in 2023 alone, bringing the total number of killings since 2012 to 2,106.