“A successful coronavirus vaccine from Cuba would help to break the global control of the market by the big pharmaceutical companies in the US and Europe.” — Antiguan Barbudan diplomat Sir Ronald Sanders
“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
The number of official global coronavirus mortalities surpassed a quarter of a million people today, including over 69,000 in the U.S. (although this is very likely an undercount). Polls
Although the media largely echoes President Trump’s claim that his tariff threats directed at China about trying to reduce the large U.S. trade deficit, the president has a far narrower aim—that is to protect the monopoly position and profits of dominant U.S. corporations.
There is a lot of concern over the possibility of a trade war between China and the U.S. In early April, President Trump announced that his administration was considering levying $100 billion of additional tariffs on Chinese exports, after the Chinese government responded to a previously proposed U.S. tariff hike on Chinese goods of $50 billion by
An organizer opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal explained that everything rides on when Obama introduces the deal in Congress, adding: ‘Our job is to make sure he never has the votes.”
AUSTIN, Texas --- A new year brings new challenges and new opportunities for the international movement opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a controversial trade deal that activists say threatens to allow corporate power to overrule democracy. Despite widespread opposition and controversy, President Barack Obama and other world leaders are
India opposed the claim using the traditional knowledge digital library (TKDL) database, created in the last decade to fight biopiracy.
India has successfully blocked two patent claims of US consumer goods major Colgate-Palmolive, which wanted intellectual property right (IPR) cover on two oral compositions made from Indian spices and other herbs. One patent battle took almost seven years, after the New York-based company filed a claim at the European Patent Register on
MIT says an internal review shows the school acted appropriately in the case of Swartz.
An internal investigation by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is billed by the school as evidence the school acted appropriately in the case of Aaron Swartz, but supporters of the late freedom-of-information
