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Calls for a Mass Mobilization Against the Vaccine Market and Speculation in Place

February 15, 2021 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Public Health

Statement from Labor Today Nothing like a pandemic shows whether an economic and political system is working or is completely wrong. Nothing like a pandemic shows which interests are at the heart of that system, whether those of a few powerful people or those of the entire population. After a year, millions of deaths around the world and measures put[…]

New Alliance Against China: D-10 Countries Threatened By China Unite Against It

June 24, 2020 UNAC Editor China, Economics, Trade Wars

by Vijay Prashad, published on Frontline, June 19, 2020 US Allies Unite Against China’s Growth As Global Economic Power. The Donald Trump administration’s trade war against China, occasioned by anxiety over the latter’s scientific and technological advances, is set to deepen in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In late May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom floated the idea[…]

US Declares a Vaccine War on the World

May 29, 2020 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Big Pharma, Capitalism, Public Health, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Trade Wars

by Prabir Purkayastha, published on Asia Times, May 27, 2020 Donald Trump launched a new vaccine war this month, but not against the virus. It was against the world. The United States and the UK were the only two holdouts in the World Health Assembly from the declaration that vaccines and medicines for Covid-19 should be available as public goods, and not under exclusive patent[…]