Caroline Wagner responds to the arrest of MIT engineering professor Gang Chen earlier this month.
Category: Advanced Technologies
COVID-19: Americans’ Unrealistic Vaccine Expectations
Matt Motta says high refusal rates in the U.S. could jeopardize population immunity.
Netflix’s ‘The Social Dilemma’ Tells Only Half the Story
Social media and the AI behind it are among the multiple crises we can no longer ignore as capitalism reaches the end of a trajectory, writes Jonathan Cook.
COVID-19: Intellectual Property Monopolies Block Vaccine Access
Few people in poor countries will get vaccinated in 2021, making a mockery of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals’ over-arching principle of “leaving no one behind,” the authors say.
OPCW Execs Praised Whistleblower & Criticized Syria Cover-up, Leaks Reveal
These private admissions obtained by The Grayzone further expose the public whitewash of the Douma cover-up, and undermine the ongoing attacks on the whistleblowers who challenged it, Aaron Maté reports.
Trump’s Pernicious Military Legacy
Michael Klare says it’s impossible to overstate the significance of the Pentagon’s shift in posture during the term of the outgoing president.
Who Gets it First?
The run on the coronavirus vaccine is also about power and image. Dispatches from Argentina, Kenya and Serbia.
DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Great Pretext … for Dystopia
In their World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret bring us the voice of would-be Global Governance.
ELECTION 2020: Uber & Lyft Notch Another Victory in Global Exploitation of Gig Workers
Bama Athreya says this showdown was about who defines employment, and it has worldwide implications for the future of work.
THE REVELATIONS OF WIKILEAKS: No. 9—Opening the CIA’s Vault
As its publisher remains in prison awaiting judgment on his extradition case, we continue our series of looking at WikiLeaks’ significant revelations contributing to the public’s right to know.