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Big Pharma’s Big-Money Business Model for the Pandemic
Fresh analysis from the New Institute for Economic Thinking finds that drug prices will remain out of reach for Americans until pharmaceutical companies sever executive pay from stock price performance and the companies are banned from stock buybacks.
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Nobel Peace Prize Purpose: Ending War or Taking Sides?
PBS reports: “Ukrainian Nobel Peace Pri…
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Nursing Home Deaths Remain High
Nursing home deaths have remained high while older Amercians’ rates of receiving Covid boosters have been lower than expected.
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Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Congress Giving it Billions More
Congress stands ready to give a big raise to an agency that failed to account for more than 60 percent of its assets.
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Why are 9 out of 10 Covid Deaths Among Americans 65+?
Although adults over the age of 65 make up only 16 percent of the U.S. population, they account for nearly 90 percent of current Covid deaths. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field weighs in on why.
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Study Links Paid Sick Leave and Higher Vaccination Rates
A new study finds that vaccination rates may be 17 percent higher in cities with paid sick leave policies compared to cities without such policies.
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U.S. Pouring Gasoline on Ukraine Fire, Risking Armageddon
In his latest article “Ukraine War Evolves: Slouching Toward Armageddon”, Professor Falk harkens back to the Yalta Agreement on maintaining spheres of influence, and how a self-censoring Western media has propogated state propaganda as the US continues to torpedo any attempts at a resolution to the conflict.
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Predicted Spill of Toxic Foam in Hawaii Highlights Dangers
Elder’s team documented high levels of PFAS draining into the water at Honolulu earlier this year.
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Global Covid Mortality Rates Obscure Actual Loss of Life
Philip Schellekens argues that reported Covid-19 mortality rates suggest that the pandemic has been “mild” in developing countries––but further examination leads to exactly the opposite conclusion.
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Biden on Railroad Strike: “Giving Big Thumbs Up” to Those Who Have “Run Supply Chain to the Ground”
“Two things everyone needs to understand: 1) It is BECAUSE they always counted on Biden/Congress forcing a deal down workers’ throats that rail carriers saw no reason to bargain in good faith for 2-plus years or to change the profit-maximizing practices that have blown up the supply chain. So, if you just started caring about the crisis on the railroads and were hand wringing about striking workers hurting the supply chain, I got news for you: Biden just gave a big thumbs up to the people who have already run the supply chain into the ground.
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