Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate!
Physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk Big Pharma arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation
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Minneapolis Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto of Uber and Lyft Minimum Rates
“Essential” workers are cross-sectoral organizing across Minnesota and scoring victories.
Read more...“We Need a Plan for the Transition to Renewable Energy”
Radical societal transformation is inevitable; a plan for renewable energy could make a difference between catastrophe and progress.
Read more...Collapse on the EU Home Front
Germany continues to self-destruct, more austerity planned for EU, Ursula von der Leyen’s “tools” are sharpened to deal with prole backlash.
Read more...New Evidence the German Taurus Attack Plan Was Leaked by the US Air Force
Yves here. It’s quite a big claim that members of the US military would leak a recording of German generals scheming to strike Russia with Taurus missiles to Russia. But then again, given that the US blew up the NordStream pipeline, it’s not as if the US regards Germany as anything other that a state […]
Read more...How Effective Is International Aid and Assistance? The Rise of Debt Traps
Special interests and the lack of a unified vision facilitate corruption. Rising debt levels in the developing world suggest a tipping point.
Read more...Young Voters, Victims of Neoliberalism, Pessimistic About the Future, Sour on Politics…As Officials Tell Them to Eat Statistics
A Wall Street Journal article about dispirited young voters reveals more than it intended to.
Read more...Major US Companies Pay Executives More Than Uncle Sam
More evidence, as if you needed it, that corporate executives are very skilled at feathering their nests.
Read more...The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement: Japanese American incarceration During WWII
As confirmed by a study of Japanese interment in World War II, the health impact of displacement is long-lived.
Read more...US Had Secret Talks with Iran About Houthi Red Sea Shipping Attacks in January
A planted story takes a bit softer line on Iran than is normal for the press. A concession to reality or a justification of US impotence?
Read more...Global Warming Is Still Accelerating, in Three Graphs
While you were busy watching the wars, national elections or other distractions du jour, global warming keeps marching on.
Read more...Sink the Hessen! Russia Doesn’t Have To Strike Beyond the Ukrainian Battlefield – The German, French, British and US Governments Are Sinking Themselves
German plotting, French bluster, domestic polling, and possible Russian countermoves and next steps.
Read more...Ultra-Processed People in an Ultra-Processed World
The scientific, health, and political debate over the true cost of ultra–processed has just gone mainstream….which is late.
Read more...Global South Stagnating Under Heavier Debt Burden
Much higher interest rates – due to Western central banks – damage developing nations via prolonged debt distress and stagnation.
Read more...The Question Of Alevi Minority In Turkiye And Its Religious Identity
On the history of the Alevi sect in Turkiye, particularly its political and social standing.
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