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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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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Frontline Medical Workers Protest New NYC Policy
it’s hard to describe the roller coaster that we’ve been on over the last month. And I think we’re just reaching a point, in the … Frontline Medical Workers Protest New NYC PolicyRead more
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The tech ‘solutions’ for coronavirus take the surveillance state to the next level
In a matter of weeks, coronavirus has shuttered the global economy and placed capitalism in intensive care. Many thinkers have expressed hope that it will … The tech ‘solutions’ for coronavirus take the surveillance state to the next levelRead more
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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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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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Animal-Human Transmission of Coronavirus
With the largest one-day death toll in the U.S. yet — 2,400 in just 24 hours — President Trump is trying to deflect attention from … Animal-Human Transmission of CoronavirusRead more
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Delta Variant Could Get Worse Before It Gets Better
Coronavirus cases continue to rise here in the United States, where there are now an average of 125,000 daily infections, with cases soaring in areas … Delta Variant Could Get Worse Before It Gets BetterRead more
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What history tells us about the delta variant
As is obvious to everyone, the delta variant is surging. Given its infectiousness, this is hardly surprising; as covid-19 adapted to humans, variants became successively … What history tells us about the delta variantRead more