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Biden admin backs proposal to lift intellectual property rights on Covid-19 vaccines, Pfizer & Moderna stocks slip

“These extraordinary times and circumstances call for extraordinary measures,” US Trade Representative Katherine Tai tweeted on Wednesday. “The US supports…

3 years ago

Napoleon may have been dead for 200 years but the English sport of French-bashing will live forever

The French. They just don’t seem to realise how funny they are, do they?It’s 200 years to the day since…

3 years ago

Caitlin Johnstone: We’re told US’ only option is to escalate aggression against Russia & China. It’s a LIE, detente IS possible

On a recent 60 Minutes interview with Norah O’Donnell which focused on the Biden administration’s China policy, US Secretary of State Tony Blinken…

3 years ago

Trump rips Facebook, Twitter, Google for taking ‘free speech’ away from him to appease ‘radical left lunatics’

“What Facebook, Twitter, Google have done is a total disgrace and embarrassment to our country,” Trump wrote. “Free Speech has…

3 years ago

‘Global reset’ needed to fight future pandemics, as creation of WHO research hub announced

Spahn highlighted the findings of a review into the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which will be officially announced…

3 years ago

US registers WORST birth-rate drop in decades, low fertility rate shows current generation below ‘self-replacement’ level

Fewer and fewer children have been born in all of the country’s states for several consecutive years, but in 2020…

3 years ago

Israel’s president gives centrist Yair Lapid mandate to form government after PM Netanyahu misses deadline

Lapid, the chairman of the centrist Yesh Atid party will have a 28-day mandate to form a government. He has…

3 years ago

London’s pitiful election to find a mayor for its nine million people resembles a D-list reality TV show

As a democratic exercise, the election campaign, with its parade of prancing, pavonine political poseurs, shames London. As a showcase…

3 years ago

Pfizer’s obscene $900m profit from its Covid vaccine in just three months proves capitalism and public health are bad bedfellows

As the New York Times reported, Pfizer generated hundreds of millions in profits in the first quarter of 2021, thanks…

3 years ago

Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump ban, but says it was ‘inappropriate’ for site to make suspension indefinite

In a statement on Wednesday, the board announced that it “upholds Facebook's decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-president…

3 years ago