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Science and the knowledge economy bolster Cuba’s socialist revolution
Cuba and Cuban science gained acclaim worldwide for producing very effective COVID-19 vaccines.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues. Part 7: Wildlife farms and wet markets
Commercial farming of wild animals as luxury food for the rich triggered a global pandemic.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 6): China’s livestock revolution
The near-universal adoption of mass production in confined facilities makes pandemics all but inevitable.
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Third U.S. farm worker infected with highly pathogenic bird flu virus
As of May 31, 2024, 69 herds have been impacted across nine states, according to the USDA. Health authorities are also monitoring 350 people who have been exposed, but only 40 farm workers have consented to testing.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 4)
Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics.
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The greatest trick
Most governments are trying to trick us into believing we don’t need to adapt to COVID-19. They can’t sustain the illusion forever.
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Making sense of the interregnum since 2007-9
There is no doubt that we live in perilous times. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, the environmental crisis, the care crisis, the cost of living crisis, the migration crisis, and now the unfolding disaster in the Middle East continue to pile up chaotically.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 2)
Relentless evolution creates ‘resilient, dangerous foes’ in the Anthropocene.
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 1)
In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people.
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World Health Assembly: The world should be more like Cuba
The world is still suffering from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inflation, supply chain crises, and shortages of medicines and basic goods continue to affect most of the world’s countries, especially those less developed and besieged by the major powers, such as Cuba, but this is not news.
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NicaNotes: The experience of Nicaragua in managing the Covid pandemic
Nicaragua, the third poorest country in Latin America, has a population of approximately 6.7 million people but has the most extensive and well-equipped public health system in Central America.
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Review: ‘I Know Who Caused COVID-19’: Pandemics and Xenophobia
A critical review of a Lacanian individualist approach by a fan of Rob Wallace, and chief of infectious disease at Mount Sinai in NY.
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Stepping out of the pandemic, Chinese style
On January 6, 2023, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) and National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine issued China’s 10th edition of its diagnosis and treatment protocol for novel coronavirus infection.
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New Yorker takes aim at people who still think Covid is a problem
There is an episode of the Fox animated series Family Guy where the family dog, Brian, is welcomed as a possible new contributor at the New Yorker.
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Zero COVID: Don’t be deceived by U.S. reports on the protests in China
The opportunism of the major U.S. media was on full display in late November over the protests against China’s anti-COVID lockdowns.
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The China protests; legitimate grievances hijacked by outside elements
In a classic color revolution style, the “A4 Revolution” has been given coordinated sympathetic coverage by the mainstream media.
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China pushes lifting of Zero-COVID after anti-lockdown protests
In the aftermath of last weekend’s protests in several Chinese cities, the country’s National Health Commission (NHC) held a press conference Tuesday calling for speeding up the implementation of the 20 measures announced on November 11 which initiated the lifting of the country’s Zero-COVID policy that has suppressed numerous outbreaks over the past three years.
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Zero-Covid and the China protests: look at the bigger picture
Ever since the world’s first Covid outbreak in Wuhan, the virus has been used as a stick to beat China.
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How Ashish Jha and Rochelle Walensky of Newton, MA protect their children from Covid (but not yours)
Built on seven hills, Newton was one of America’s earliest commuter suburbs.
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NYT scolds China for not ‘learning to live’—or die—with Covid
Four and a half million people. That’s how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the pandemic that the United States has taken, and gotten the same results.