By Sonali Kolhatkar * – Independent Media Institute While President Biden is backing the temporary lifting of COVID-19 vaccine patents, drugmakers are making dire predictions of stifled innovation and eroded public trust. What they really fear is losing profits Days after…
International video conference 18 May 2012 from 4pm to 8pm Meeting with political and social personalities from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa, to present the Citizens’ Memorandum FOR A GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY On the occasion of the G20 Global Health Summit…
By Ruhi Bhasin* – Independent Media Institute/Globetrotter As Indians continue to scramble for survival through a deadly second COVID-19 wave and deal with an inadequate health care system that has failed them at every step, for a majority of the country living…
Editorial – The Guardian The US is now backing plans that could help billions more access vaccines. The UK should follow suit The rapid emergence of Covid vaccines has been a remarkable yet bittersweet success, pointing to both humanity’s scientific achievements and its social…
By Riccardo Petrella* Will the US emperor consent to the suspension of vaccines patents or will the principle of private property and the defence of American supremacy prevail? Is there any hope?
By Fábián Tamás – Telex (*) With a year left until what looks to be a tight election, the government is reallocating considerable amounts of public assets away from the state and into, e.g., foundations. The goal could be to sustain Orbán’s “System of National Cooperation” in…
By Michael De Dora* WASHINGTON, Apr 30 2021 (IPS) – When Myanmar’s military seized power from the elected government in February, one of its first actions was to further squeeze the already restricted free flow of information in the country. It obstructed news stations…
By Max Eden* – Newsweek Last week, the Senate voted 94-1 in favor of the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, intended to address anti-Asian racism. Senator Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) lone “no” vote was covered by CNN, The Hill, HuffPost, Slate, the New York Post, Politico, Vox and Axios.
By Lambert Strether* of Corrente – Naked Capitalism Our political class does not believe that Barack Obama is a candidate for rehabilitation (“revered by liberals, moderates and even some Republicans“) despite recently pivoting to a consensus that his response to the Great…
By Francine Mestrum, PhD, Brussels and Cuernavaca. The crisis caused by the coronavirus is an opportunity to think about the future. This article is about ‘the left’ or ‘progressive forces’ in a very broad sense with implications for political parties and social movements…
