Cybersecurity threats are emerging as one of the most serious challenges of the 21st century. The U.S. and its NATO allies have turned down every attempt within the UN framework for banning cyberweapons. Two major ...
Vivek Murthy, President Biden’s nominee for surgeon general, joined the likes of Amazon and AstraZeneca to take advantage of the pandemic to become noticeably richer. Murthy, who previously served as surgeon general in the Obama ...
While a public desperate for protection against COVID-19 is quick to shame “vaccine hunters,” the real culprits are the companies refusing to share their publicly funded intellectual property and the governments allowing them to get ...
Twitter’s actions are quite a departure from 2019 when it delayed a network upgrade in Iran at the behest of the US government for fear that it could interfere with anti-government demonstrations. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
“The tax code is so rigged for the rich that even when they kill people they get a tax break.” (By: Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams) Four pharmaceutical corporations that agreed to pay a combined $26 billion ...
Hedge funds and private equity firms make profits off our misery and threaten any future health care reform. (Laura Packard, Common Dreams) Americans are drowning in billions of dollars of medical debt, which continues to ...
Unable to secure a profit in immunizing poorer nations, Western multinationals, including Oxford’s private partner AstraZeneca, have prioritized those who can pay the most. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Europe is reeling from the shock ...
Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before the calamity led to the deaths by asphyxiation of patients afflicted ...
In the days between Election Day and the announcement of Joe Biden as the projected winner of the presidential race, even as national election results remained muddy, one thing was crystal clear: the American public ...
In 2004, Dr. José Armando Arronte Villamarín was posted to head a Cuban medical brigade in Namibia. Cuban medical personnel first came to southwest Africa in 1975 alongside Cuban soldiers; the soldiers had arrived there ...
The racist analogies have not held up for centuries, and yet they continue to crop up from unqualified and prominent figures today. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been known to have an interest in eugenics, but ...
“The healthy food we give to a child has an impact on their economic mobility going forward. A healthier family has more money, a better life, and less sickness. They have a lot of things ...
The problem of hate news is built into the genes of big digital monopolies like Facebook. We need to break up these monopolies and regulate them as the new public utilities of the digital age. ...
US Cyber Command and the Pentagon are availing themselves of the Russian meddling narratives and added a few others to justify the creation of a cyberwar army with international and domestic capabilities via the National ...
“Facebook banning leftwing media is the logical end point of begging a US-based corporate publishing monopoly to arbitrate truth.” Facebook announced yesterday it has removed hundreds of “Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts” connected to ...
DARPA announces a new type of cryptography to protect the Big Tech firm profits from the dawn of quantum computers and allow backdoor access into 3 trillion internet-connected devices. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) The ...
Organic CSA farms like Massaro in Connecticut have been able to nimbly reorient marketing and production to serve the urgent needs of their communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deep craters in the U.S. food ...
YouTube’s decision to ban discussion of hacked information on its platform is unlikely to improve election integrity in the US, it will, however, continue to tilt the balance in favor of established corporate-funded outlets like ...
The U.S. tech war on China continues, banning Chinese equipment from its network, and asking its Five Eyes partners and NATO allies to follow suit. It is a market and a technology denial regime that seeks to win back manufacturing that the U.S. and European ...
Nurses are losing lives and jobs while execs rake in million after million. (Common Dreams) How’s pandemic life been going for you? If you work in America’s healthcare industry, that depends. That totally depends. If ...
“Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his nation’s inoculation is safe for a mass audience, despite the fact that it has not yet finished its final round of testing.” As the world races to develop ...
Geopolitical contests between the U.S. and China hinge on technology more than the ability to deploy a gunboat somewhere; Taiwan could resemble a prototype for a tech proxy war. The media likes to dabble in ...
“It ought to be the people’s vaccine, not a new taxpayer burden.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Consumer advocates warned Wednesday that pharmaceutical giant Moderna is “taking taxpayers for a ride” after the company announced ...
In June the U.S. Department of Energy published the Report on the Status of the Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands. The report claims that the decades old nuclear waste dump in the Marshall Islands ...
“It is sadly predictable that Big Pharma responds to a global pandemic by trying to bring to market only those drugs that maximize its profits.” (By: Lisa Newcomb, Common Dreams) As Covid-19 cases and deaths ...
Six months ago, on January 30, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Ten days before this, the Chinese government had said—to great alarm—that ...
If we think inequality was bad before Covid-19, it’s about to get a whole lot worse. (Common Dreams) Six months into a global pandemic, the US economy just took its most grievous hit on record, ...
Even as the government attempts to frame the debate over the banning of Chinese companies like TikTok and Huawei over privacy concerns, it continues to try to ban the encryption of data and communications at home. ...
“We are going very quickly. I do not believe that there will be vaccines so far ahead of us that we will have to depend on other countries to get us vaccine.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, ...
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. That is why the U.S. withdrawal ...
“You can’t have a contractor supervising government officials.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) The White House on Friday awarded a record-breaking $2.1 billion contract for development of a Covid-19 vaccine, raising questions about a former ...
A consortium of the most powerful tech players like IBM, Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up with hospital networks with links to the Vatican and tech lobbying groups to shape the conversation about the future ...
The pandemic makes one thing clear: We must change our relationship with wildlife or suffer the consequences. The term “zoonotic disease” wasn’t a hot topic of conversation before the novel coronavirus started spreading across the ...
Solution: slash the prices and kill the ads. (Common Dreams) Prescription drugs have long provided two bad examples of American exceptionalism. They cost three-to-four times more than anywhere else, and we’re one of only two countries in the ...
This history of Democratic obstruction and vacillation to corporate interests and the greed of insurance companies must come to an end. The need for Medicare for All has never been more clear than it is ...
Yoga teachers who work with marginalized communities say the practice is a key way to navigating stress, trauma and disruption. Like many industries, the yoga industry is facing some major upheavals due to COVID-19, with ...
Americans may soon be able to import prescription drugs from Canada, courtesy of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Friday. Restructuring America’s Pharmaceutical Industry Americans may soon be able to import prescription ...
A “tsunami” of evictions is about to sweep across the United States when the 120-day moratorium ends today, threatening millions of Americans with homelessness or worse – a new set of landlords called Facebook, Google ...
“Actions of this kind threaten the peaceful use of space and risk causing debris that could pose a threat to satellites and the space systems on which the world depends.” Space, once reserved for communication ...
What can make this moment’s passion positive? What can make this moment’s anger future-seeking? COVID-19, and before Covid everything else, has raised a question that is now percolating, and even reverberating. And then came a ...
The decision to remove the CDC from coronavirus data collection now puts health data further from public view. President Trump’s feud with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) took a new turn yesterday when the ...
A new biometric identity platform partnered with the Gates-funded GAVI vaccine alliance and Mastercard will launch in West Africa and combine COVID-19 vaccinations, cashless payments, and potential law enforcement applications. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress News) ...
The announcement comes three days after the right-wing leader was photographed without a mask with the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. (By: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams) Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro—who has repeatedly dismissed the threat of ...
The horror of the coronavirus pandemic proves that progressives have been justified in demanding a single-payer health care system. A pandemic is not the time to be having discussions about how to design a national ...
After his disastrous handling of the COVID-19 epidemic, Trump is trying to improve his waning electoral chances by reserving all of Gilead’s stock of remdesivir. The U.S. has bought up almost all of the stock ...
To make matter worse, Remdesivir is a drug that “has had its development costs paid for, in large part, by independent donors like governments and ministries of health in China, the WHO, and the US government.” ...
“We are constantly at risk of new emergence of zoonotic pathogens and that farmed animals, with which humans have greater contact than with wildlife, may act as the source for important pandemic viruses.” (By: Julia ...
Lack of healthcare is a death sentence. (Common Dreams) In the first 10 Democratic debates, moderators asked candidates 21 questions about how they planned to pay for social programs like Medicare for All. Yet when it ...
“Taxpayers provided funding for the development of this drug. Now Gilead is price-gouging off it during a pandemic. Beyond disgusting,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Consumer advocates reacted with disgust Monday ...
“Most researchers estimate that we will not have a viable COVID-19 vaccine until 2021, at the earliest.” In total, the United States has had over 2.4 million confirmed COVID-19 (Coronavirus, 2019) cases since the onset of the ...
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