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.
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Why True Democratic Systems Are Incompatible with Class-Based Orders…..Like Capitalism
Continuing the debate on whether democracy is viable in a capitalist regime.
Read more...Russia’s Ideology Is Now National Liberation of the World From the US Empire, With an Assist From Patriarch Kirill
A detailed discussion of Russia’s effort to foster an ideological counterpoint to US hegemony, particularly via Putin speeches.
Read more...Is It Time to Tax Ultra-Processed Foods Because of the Massive Harm That They Do to Society?
Yes, Virginia, ultra-processed food is a health hazard. But what to do?
Read more...Elections Won’t Fix What Ails the West
e body politic in the West is not at all healthy. Why is there so much denial about that?
Read more...Is American Banking Safe? You Might Not Like The Answer from Two Fed Veterans
Walker Todd and Bill Bergman expose the untold story of banking instability, regulatory battles, and the struggle to protect the public.
Read more...EU and US Ukraine Funding Even More in Doubt as War Effort Falters
Things are going from bad to worse for Ukraine, and at an accelerating pace too.
Read more...NATO/West or Global Majority? Unipolar Destruction or Multipolar Development? The World Must Choose
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...The Pentagon Fails Its Audit Again—and Again and Again and Again and Again and Again
he Pentagon is still at it! Keeps using bad books helps cover for getting more than it is entitled to.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: “As Bombs Are Raining Down on Gaza Again, It Is No Longer About Hamas or Netanyahu. It Is About OUR Humanity Being Tested”
A call to stand against the slaughter in Gaza.
Read more...Solving the Climate Crisis Means Ending Our Addiction to Economic Growth
COP28 may toy with wide-ranging reforms needed to arrest a climate disaster. But arguablly necessary governance structures seem unattainable.
Read more...The Dutch Earthquake
Why did so many Dutch citizens vote for the far-right Geert Wilders?
Read more...Wall Street Journal: “Why No One Wants to Pay for the Green Transition”
The green energy transition, which truth be told has not gotten very far, is already hitting a wall.
Read more...The Thousand Boat Blockade-Busting Operation Changes Everything on the Gaza Front – if It Materialises
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...The Destructively High Energy Cost of AI
More data on the energy cost of AI, which is projected soon to exceed that of several small countries.
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