Patents and Intellectual Property in Biomedical Science: A History in Two Tales
How the US licensing of NIH and other government funded drug and biomedical research became a grift for Big Pharma.
Read more...How the US licensing of NIH and other government funded drug and biomedical research became a grift for Big Pharma.
Read more...Continuing the debate on whether democracy is viable in a capitalist regime.
Read more...A detailed discussion of Russia’s effort to foster an ideological counterpoint to US hegemony, particularly via Putin speeches.
Read more...Yes, Virginia, ultra-processed food is a health hazard. But what to do?
Read more...e body politic in the West is not at all healthy. Why is there so much denial about that?
Read more...Walker Todd and Bill Bergman expose the untold story of banking instability, regulatory battles, and the struggle to protect the public.
Read more...Things are going from bad to worse for Ukraine, and at an accelerating pace too.
Read more...Yves here. While there is a lot of merit in the latest discussion between Radhika Desai and Micheal Hudson on their favorite topic of mutlipolarity, I feel compelled to correct some imprecisions. The video depicts the “German government” as having “raised” the debt brake but then “not being allowed” with no depiction of agency, to […]
Read more...he Pentagon is still at it! Keeps using bad books helps cover for getting more than it is entitled to.
Read more...A call to stand against the slaughter in Gaza.
Read more...COP28 may toy with wide-ranging reforms needed to arrest a climate disaster. But arguablly necessary governance structures seem unattainable.
Read more...Why did so many Dutch citizens vote for the far-right Geert Wilders?
Read more...The green energy transition, which truth be told has not gotten very far, is already hitting a wall.
Read more...The Turkiye-sponsored thousand-boat flotilla, scheduled to set sail for Gaza this past Wednesday, looks to be a non-starter. What happened?
Read more...More data on the energy cost of AI, which is projected soon to exceed that of several small countries.
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