Mexico’s Move to Shunt out Neoliberal Agenda Holds Lessons for India
Alongside efforts to reclaim control over Mexico’s natural resources, the Lopez Obrador government is also planning to recapture control over its Central Bank.
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Alongside efforts to reclaim control over Mexico’s natural resources, the Lopez Obrador government is also planning to recapture control over its Central Bank.
It’s no small horror that, on this planet of ours, humanity continues to foster two apocalyptic forces, each of which — one in a relative instant and the other over many decades — could cripple or destroy human life as we know it. That should be sobering indeed for all of us.
African nations might have produced a patent free vaccine that would have benefitted the whole world. Instead they purchased patented vaccines which enriched pharmaceutical corporations outside of the continent.
Covered up by a secretive Soviet Union at the time, the true number of deaths and illnesses caused by the nuclear accident are only now becoming clear.
A just-released “Panama Papers on steroids” show how the US has become a major tax haven and destination for illicit wealth.
The primary obstacles to expanded vaccine production are political: corporate power and IPR fundamentalism. Unions have backed the call for a TRIPS waiver. Organized action at all levels will determine which will prevail: human rights or intellectual property rights.
Interview with Juan Ramon Quintana, former Minister of the Presidency under Evo Morales, which is Bolivia’s equivalent to the role of a Prime Minister, and one of Evo’s closest confidants. We spoke about the nature of US intervention in Latin America and during the Bolivia coup.
The author, a professor of global religions at Moravian University, examines the concept of moral injury, why so many veterans of America’s twenty-first-century forever wars have suffered from it, and why, for some, suicide has been the only solution.
Millions of working-class families in the United States are so poor they can’t afford to shop at grocery stores any more. They’re buying food at 99 cent stores instead.
The iPhone is a technological wonder. Yet, how many of us users ever ask what are the conditions under which these iPhones are produced? What are these conditions doing to China’s workers, who assemble such wonderful instruments?
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