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The Bits and Bytes of The Great Reset: COVID-19 and the Scaling Up of Data-Capitalism

The so-called Great Reset amounts to little more than a campaign to turn humanity into datasets, which the world’s most powerful hedge funds and transnational corporations can use to create more profits for themselves and their clients.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
The Bits and Bytes of The Great Reset: COVID-19 and the Scaling Up of Data-Capitalism

The so-called Great Reset amounts to little more than a campaign to turn humanity into datasets, which the world’s most powerful hedge funds and transnational corporations can use to create more profits for themselves and their clients.

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New COVID-19 Security Measures Will Make Health a Prerequisite for Travel

As the multi-sector, global response to the coronavirus tightens the noose around civil liberties, CommonPass stands out as one of the most appalling and dangerous attacks on basic human rights in the name of public health.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
New COVID-19 Security Measures Will Make Health a Prerequisite for Travel

As the multi-sector, global response to the coronavirus tightens the noose around civil liberties, CommonPass stands out as one of the most appalling and dangerous attacks on basic human rights in the name of public health.

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No Socialist Paradise: Sweden’s COVID-19 Response Is Nothing to Envy

Eleanor Goldfield reports from Stockholm on how COVID-19 has laid bare the US-style capitalist reality creeping into Sweden’s already struggling socialized programs.

Eleanor Goldfield
By Eleanor Goldfield
No Socialist Paradise: Sweden’s COVID-19 Response Is Nothing to Envy

Eleanor Goldfield reports from Stockholm on how COVID-19 has laid bare the US-style capitalist reality creeping into Sweden’s already struggling socialized programs.

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Lee Camp: The Life-Saving COVID-19 Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of (and Why)

Only the ridiculously profitable drugs are worth hyping. Only the money makers deserve 80,000 commercials telling every consumer to irrationally demand them. The cheap drugs that simply – save lives – those are garbage.

Lee Camp
By Lee Camp
Lee Camp: The Life-Saving COVID-19 Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of (and Why)

Only the ridiculously profitable drugs are worth hyping. Only the money makers deserve 80,000 commercials telling every consumer to irrationally demand them. The cheap drugs that simply – save lives – those are garbage.

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As Corporations Adapt to a COVID-19 Economy, the Working-Class Prepares for a Paradigm Shift

As social distancing measures persist across the country, corporations are setting in a “new normal” where most people are safely squirreled away in their homes, with paradigm-shifting implications for the working classes.

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
As Corporations Adapt to a COVID-19 Economy, the Working-Class Prepares for a Paradigm Shift

As social distancing measures persist across the country, corporations are setting in a “new normal” where most people are safely squirreled away in their homes, with paradigm-shifting implications for the working classes.

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Cuomo Announces Partnership with Bill Gates to “Revolutionize” NY Schools in Wake of Coronavirus

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he will use the COVID-19 virus as an opportunity to “revolutionize” the state’s school system, inviting Bill Gates to implement his controversial ideas about education. 

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Cuomo Announces Partnership with Bill Gates to “Revolutionize” NY Schools in Wake of Coronavirus

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he will use the COVID-19 virus as an opportunity to “revolutionize” the state’s school system, inviting Bill Gates to implement his controversial ideas about education. 

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US Government Fears China will Give Away COVID-19 Vaccine for Free

“The coronavirus pandemic is a clear instance in which the whole world shares a common interest in developing and distributing a vaccine.” — Dr. Dean Baker

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
US Government Fears China will Give Away COVID-19 Vaccine for Free

“The coronavirus pandemic is a clear instance in which the whole world shares a common interest in developing and distributing a vaccine.” — Dr. Dean Baker

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