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Intellectual property like pharmaceutical patents is one reason so many people face a long wait for COVID-19 vaccines says Dean Baker. GPEnewsdocs
Capitalism’s Structural Crisis and the Global Revolt
According to William I. Robinson, the COVID pandemic has further intensified the structural crisis of global capitalism and has caused numerous uprisings and revolts around the world, which global elites are trying to suppress via militarization, police repression, and surveillance. Robinson joins Greg Wilpert on theAnalysis.news.
10 Things Wrong With Biden’s Foreign Policy – Medea Benjamin
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50 Years After Allende at the UN: A Corporate Triumph Named Multistakeholderism
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A Desperate Trump Will Do Desperate Things – Larry Wilkerson
Larry Wilkerson and Paul Jay discuss a possible rout of the GOP, and what a desperate Trump might do before the transfer of power. If Biden wins, massive pressure is needed to make him reduce deep income inequality, or a new authoritarian threat will emerge by 2024.