The cost of vaccinating the world against COVID-19 could be at least five times cheaper if pharmaceutical companies weren’t profiteering from their monopolies on COVID-19 … Vaccine monopolies make cost of vaccinating the world against COVID at least 5 timesRead more
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IMF is Back in Business in Latin America – Just as Neoliberal as Always
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_PnLwddr9Q&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Vijay Prashad
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Pandemic profiteers
Faced with an economic crisis that could lead to starvation or riots, a finance minister was forced to default on their country’s debt, massively devalue … Pandemic profiteersRead more
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Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19
When trying to interpret, understand, and analyze the daily flow of news, I tend to locate what is happening against the background of two distinctive … Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19Read more
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Corporate management doesn’t work for basic public infrastructure like health care
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15o7DsK9PFc&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Richard Wolff, Michael Hudson
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos cashes in on coronavirus pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent millions of workers and their families, already scraping to survive, into a financial tailspin from which many will never recover. … Amazon’s Jeff Bezos cashes in on coronavirus pandemicRead more
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“Nobody is Above the Law” – Except The “Big Boys”
Law schools should have courses on the expanding immunities of government and corporate officials from criminal prosecution and punishment. Guest lecturers, speaking from their experience, … “Nobody is Above the Law” – Except The “Big Boys”Read more
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Billionaires Backed Consortium To Buy U.K. Maker Of Covid Tests For $41 Million
Billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates are part of a consortium set to buy Mologic, a U.K.-based maker of Covid tests, in an effort to … Billionaires Backed Consortium To Buy U.K. Maker Of Covid Tests For $41 MillionRead more
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The Solutions to the Climate Crisis No One is Talking About
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuXURo0FUjM&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Robert Reich
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How Corporate Courts Impede Efforts to Battle the Climate Crisis
Any day now, Italy expects to be ordered to hand millions of dollars over to an oil exploration corporation, following the Italian government’s decision to … How Corporate Courts Impede Efforts to Battle the Climate CrisisRead more