For rich countries, the billions of dollars of vaccine market for Big Pharma far outweigh the benefits of saving millions of lives.
Continue readingU.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.
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingChomsky 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.
Continue readingWorkers 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.
Continue readingWhy 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.
Continue readingHow 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.
Continue readingHow 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”
Continue readingVenezuela’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.
Continue readingWhy 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.
Continue readingThe 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.”
Continue readingTrump’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.
Continue readingHow 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?
Continue readingLaos 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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