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The West Is Practicing Vaccine Apartheid at a Global Level

For rich countries, the billions of dollars of vaccine market for Big Pharma far outweigh the benefits of saving millions of lives.

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U.S. Exceptionalism Surges Again—Will It Fly?

America’s return to the UNHRC is part and parcel of Biden administration’s plan to put democracy and rights at the center of its foreign policy.

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The Illegal Blockade of Venezuela and the Anti-Blockade Law

Despite an unrelenting, suffocating blockade on Venezuela, the country has continued to promote social policies to safeguard the population.

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The Value of Universal Vaccination Is So Great That Even the IMF Is Being Forced to Rethink Its Callousness to the Global South

It could cost as much as $5 trillion if rich countries don’t help vaccinate the rest of the world.

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Chomsky and Prashad: Why Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Their Countries From COVID-19 Must Be Investigated

Neoliberal leaders who failed to protect their countries from the virus must be investigated.

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Workers Suffer as U.S. Pandemic Relief Bill Goes Nowhere in Congress

As the COVID-19 pandemic spirals out of control in the United States, inaction and deadlock in the government have left workers to fend for themselves amid mounting unemployment.

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Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times

It is no accident that big science in capitalist countries is tied to either war or the greed of capital. This is especially being sharply reflected during the present pandemic when we find that a large number of vaccines are for-profit, even if they have been funded by public money.

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How the Privatization of Medicine in India Is Accelerating Its COVID-19 Death Toll

The COVID-19 crisis was an opportunity for the public systems to recapture their rightful position as the predominant health care providers in the country. But the public systems were unprepared for the task.

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How Venezuela Has Held Back COVID-19 in Spite of the U.S. Sanctions Stranglehold on Its Economy

María Lourdes Urbaneja Durant tells Vijay Prashad that despite sabotage by the US, Venezuela has been able to curb the spread of COVID-19 through “participation of the people”

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Venezuela’s Ability to Fight COVID-19 Is Badly Hamstrung by the 31 Metric Tons of Gold Stolen From Its Treasury

On October 5, 2020, the England and Wales Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision from July that denied the Venezuelan government access to 31 metric tons of its gold stored in the Bank of London.

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Why We’re on a Long Road to COVID-19 Immunity Even With Vaccines

As the pandemic continues to spread throughout the world, many countries seem to have given up the fight against COVID-19 and are now waiting for a vaccine to protect against the virus.

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The Difference Between the U.S. and China’s Response to COVID-19 Is Staggering

Trump lied to his own citizens, while China’s president Xi Jinping said that his government would be “putting people first.”

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Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO: A Cover-Up for Its Abject Failure on COVID-19

Microbes do not recognize borders. We are all safe only when everybody is safe. In a pandemic, to attack the only body we have for global cooperation endangers everyone.

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How Trump Managed to Lead the World With the Worst Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

How does one understand the total failure of the Trump administration to break the chain of the infection?

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Laos Has Tackled COVID-19, But It Is Drowning in Debt to International Finance

The heroic and tragic story of how Laos has controlled the coronavirus pandemic but now faces an even more unforgiving adversary, foreign debt.

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