Successful Not-for-Profit Oxford COVID Vaccine Threatens Big Pharma Profit Logic

“The Oxford vaccine is… striking, since the point was to pay researchers, but not to rely on patent monopolies to generate large profits.” – Economist Dean Baker

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Oxford Covid Vaccine Feature photo

The world is abuzz today after a team of medical researchers from Oxford University in the United Kingdom announced that advanced trials of their experimental coronavirus vaccine were a roaring success, with the vaccine possibly being rolled out before Christmas. Testing was done on 24,000 volunteers in the U.K, Brazil, and South Africa, with an

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A Historical Reckoning: Oxford Study Challenges Israel’s Claims Concerning Palestinian Refugees

Pro-Israel institutions and spokespeople like to claim that the Palestinian refugee issue has passed some imaginary statute of limitations, but as a comprehensive new Oxford study shows,  it “has since become even stronger.”

Miko Peled
By Miko Peled
Palestinian refugees feature photo

There needs to be a fundamental change in the way Palestinian refugees are seen, no longer as victims but as people with rights who are entitled to shape their own destiny. This assertion is made in a new study whose importance cannot be overstated. According to international law, Palestinian refugees have a right to return to their homes and

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Can Big Oil-Funded University Departments Remain Objective In Their Research?

Oxford University students, staff and alumni have published a letter rejecting a new partnership between the university and Shell Oil Company.

Magda Fahsi
By Magda Fahsi

“As Oxford alumni, staff and students, we are united in our opposition to this new partnership and the growing trend of oil companies funding, and thus influencing, the research agenda of our universities.” The letter published in The Guardian was crystal clear: Oxford University’s students and staff do not want Shell to fund a new laboratory in

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