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John Menadue-At last,Australia backs Covid vaccine patent waiver. Better late than never
People’s vaccines may yet become a reality. Let’s hope so despite opposition by Big Pharma and rich countries. Continue reading »
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Critics Say Investors in US Weapon-Makers Only Clear Winners of Afghan War
As the hawks who have been lying about the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan for two decades continue to peddle fantasies in the midst of a Taliban takeover and American evacuation of Kabul, progressive critics on Tuesday reminded the world who has benefited from the “endless war.” Continue reading »
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Taliban Vow ‘No Revenge’ Against Fellow Afghans Who Worked With US Forces
During their first press conference since retaking control of Afghanistan, Taliban representatives on Tuesday vowed not to seek retribution against fellow Afghans who worked with U.S. occupation forces and said the new government will respect the rights of women—with the caveat that they must adhere to the group’s interpretation of Sharia law. Continue reading »
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Further Blow to Press Freedoms as US Wins Appeal in Effort to Extradite Julian Assange
“This disingenuous appeal should be dismissed by the court and President Biden should take the opportunity to drop these politically motivated charges.” Continue reading »
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Climate Movement Says ‘Apocalyptic’ IPCC Report.
Greenpeace intends to use the new IPCC analysis as evidence in law suits against governments and corporations that continue to obstruct necessary change. G20 nations have provided $3.3 trillion in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry since 2015. Continue reading »
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Belief in America as the “indispensable nation” is bullshit – and always has been
The United States has a war problem. And just about no one is keen to talk about it. Continue reading »
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As US hits Biden’s 70% vaccination goal, world’s poor nations barely over 1%
Exposing stark global vaccine inequity amid a fast-spreading delta variant, White House officials said Monday that at least 70% of US adults are now at least partly vaccinated against the coronavirus – compared to just barely over 1% when it comes to the world’s poorest nations. Continue reading »
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Big pharma monopolies gauging over vaccination prices whilst refusing access to poor countries
Wealthy nations including Canada, Australia , Germany, and the United Kingdom continue to oppose the TRIPS waiver Continue reading »
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Failed US empire: is this country heading for the exit?
Three decades after the Soviet empire headed for the exit, is it possible that the far more powerful American one is ever so chaotically heading in the same direction? Continue reading »
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Blinken’s vow to support ‘independent journalists’ does not apply to Julian Assange
Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed last Monday that the United States “will always support the indispensable work of independent journalists around the world” – a commitment that the Biden administration has refused to apply to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whom the US government is attempting to prosecute for releasing classified information that exposed war Continue reading »
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Afghanistan: The graveyard of empires was one of the greatest follies of US foreign policy.
The US-led war in Afghanistan looks to be ending, and not a day too soon. America’s father, Benjamin Franklin, wisely wrote: “No good war; no bad peace.” Yet for 20 years, the United States waged all-out war against this small, remote, impoverished state whose only weapons were old AK47 rifles and the boundless courage of Continue reading »
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“No one is safe”: phone numbers of 14 world leaders on Pegasus List
The Washington Post on Tuesday revealed that three presidents, 10 prime ministers, and a king are among the more than 50,000 individuals whose phone numbers appeared on a leaked list of potential targets of Pegasus, the military-grade spyware licensed by Israeli firm NSO Group, prompting human rights defenders to call for a global crackdown on the surveillance industry’s invasive technologies. Continue reading »
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‘Humanity Must Stand Together’: Top Medical Ethicists Demand Vaccine Patent Waivers
Two medical ethicists are the latest to argue that the World Trade Organization must lift patent protections on Covid-19 vaccines to save lives both in the Global South, where inoculations against the virus are lagging, and in wealthy countries which is likely to face future infectious disease outbreaks if they continue hoarding the supplies needed to fight Continue reading »
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The world will not mourn the decline of US hegemony (February 2018)
The death count resulting from “American Era” U.S. foreign policy runs well into the many millions. Continue reading »
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On climate and Covid emergencies, G7 judged a ‘colossal failure’ for all the world to see
“Never in the history of the G7 has there been a bigger gap between their actions and the needs of the world. In the face of these challenges the G7 have chosen to cook the books on vaccines and continue to cook the planet.” Continue reading »
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide hits highest level in more than 4 million years
New data released on Monday showed atmospheric carbon dioxide reached a monthly average level of 419 parts per million in May, which is not only the maximum reading ever recorded since accurate measurements began 63 years ago but also the highest level the planet has experienced in more than four million years. Continue reading »
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‘This Is the Price of War’: Israeli Newspaper Haaretz Publishes Photos of All 67 Palestinian Children Killed in Gaza Onslaught
“Conversations around Israel/Palestine are changing in Jewish communities across the globe,” said rabbi and author Abby Stein. “It’s about time.” Continue reading »
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WHO Chief decries ‘scandalous’ vaccine inequality where rich nations control ‘fate of the world’
“The pandemic is not over, and it will not be over until and unless transmission is controlled in every last country.” Continue reading »
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As Covid ravages poor nations, Pharma vaccine profiteering has created 9 new billionaires
A new analysis shows that pharmaceutical companies’ immensely profitable monopoly control over coronavirus vaccines has produced nine new billionaires since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, which continues to ravage developing nations left largely without access to the life-saving shots. Continue reading »
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Israel Is Carrying Out Mass Murder, Aided and Abetted by the US
Israel is not exercising “the right to defend itself” in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder. It is a war crime. The United States is not an honest broker for peace but has funded, enabled and defended Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people. Israel is not defending the rule of law. Continue reading »
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Biden urged to stand ‘on the side of humanity’ and back waiver for Covid vaccine patents
The U.S. is facing sustained calls to end its opposition of a proposal to temporarily lift intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines and related technology as soaring coronavirus cases ravage India and new reporting spotlights a debate within the Biden administration over whether to support the patent suspension effort to help tackle the global pandemic Continue reading »
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G20 nations slammed for calling covid vaccines a ‘public good’ while denying them to world
Progressive campaigners on Wednesday denounced G20 nations for offering lip service to the importance of treating coronavirus vaccines as a “global public good” while simultaneously blocking an effort to lift restrictive patent protections and share vaccine recipes with the developing world. Continue reading »
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To Halt ’30-Year Race to the Bottom,’ Yellen Calls for Global Minimum Tax on Corporations
“A high global minimum tax can change the face of globalization—by making its main winners (multinational companies) pay more in taxes, instead of them paying less and less.” Continue reading »
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Experts warn failure to rapidly ‘Vaccinate the World’ creates dangerous opening for Covid-19 mutations
Epidemiologists from dozens of countries around the world issued a loud warning Tuesday that failure to ensure global administration of Covid-19 vaccines within the next year—at the very latest—could allow vaccine-resistant variants to spread among unprotected populations to such an extent that current shots are rendered ineffective. Continue reading »
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WHO Chief blasts ‘Grotesque’ vaccine inequality as rich nations block speedy end of global pandemic
As rich nations like the United States and pharmaceutical companies face sustained calls to share Covid-19 vaccine knowledge, the head of the World Health Organization on Monday decried the “grotesque” global inequality of vaccine distribution. “We have the means to avert this failure but it’s shocking how little has been done to avert it”, said Continue reading »
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‘We need a people’s vaccine, not a profit vaccine’: Sanders urges Biden to support push to suspend Pharma patents
“Ending this pandemic requires collaboration, solidarity, and empathy. It requires a very different mindset—a mindset that puts people over profits at every turn.” Continue reading »
