Pharmaceutical Industry at Risk from Brexit
Yet another potential Brexit casualty….
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Why International Financial Crises?
Despite the high cost of financial crises, the world seems no closer to making needed reforms.
Read more...Who Will Take America’s Place in Asia?
A look at America’s misguided Asia policies.
Read more...Supreme Court Lexmark Patent Decision A Win for State Right to Repair Legislation
Interprets patent exhaustion doctrine to prevent patent holders from imposing use and sale restrictions; implicitly endorses repair.
Read more...Fashion Industry Dogged By Sustainability Concerns
Sustainability concerns dog the fashion industry. Millennials rank sustainability high in their buying choices.
Read more...The New New Deal
The myth of the virtues of markets is past its sell-by date. Time for a new guiding principle, and the New Deal may be the place to start.
Read more...Peter Van Buren: Whistleblowers, Moral Injury, and Endless War
Introduces new novel, Hooper’s War, about the moral injury suffered in war. Did this motivate Chelsea Manning to become a whistleblower?
Read more...Apple Spends Big to Thwart Right to Repair in New York and Elsewhere
Apple spends big to thwart right to repair, while efforts to expand into to India meet mixed results and fail to snare concessions as sought.
Read more...Notes From an Emergency: Tech Feudalism
A wide-ranging, lively, sobering talk about tech feudalism and the implications for all of us.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: America’s Globalization of Misery
A hard look at the results of one of America’s globalization projects, that of the casual creation of failed states.
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 4
More on how neoliberal policies around the world have hurt labor.
Read more...Hoisted from E-Mail: Puzzling Out the UK’s Shambolic Approach to Brexit
Trying to make sense of the UK’s Brexit pathology.
Read more...Growing Inequality Under Global Capitalism
The benefits of capitalism are accruing even more to a very few at the top.
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 3
On the current structure of globalization and its implications for the distribution of income within and between countries.
Read more...UN Panel Strives to Improve Access to Medicines: TRNN Interview with Celso Amorim
TRNN interview with Celso Amorim on which priorities should prevail when intellectual property protection collides with public health.
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