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Category: Health Reform
COVID-19: Humanity’s Cries Against the Crimes of Death
With millions now infected by the virus, Vijay Prashad presses an agenda to strengthen healthcare systems in capitalist countries.
COVID-19: Why Laos, Vietnam & China Have Beaten the Virus and India, Brazil and the US Have Not
Vijay Prashad explores the differences between the pandemic responses of a few countries with socialist governments and others in the capitalist order.
WATCH: CN LIVE! New Episode—‘Pandemic Down Under’
On this episode of CN Live! we examined in detail one of the few success stories in the coronavirus pandemic, asking how Australia has been able to escape the worst of the crisis.
COVID-19: Coronavirus and Civilization
Lockdowns reveal helplessness rather than power. While in a crisis some will take advantage of disaster, it makes no sense that dominant economic powers sought this crisis for some mysterious benefit to themselves, says Diana Johnstone.
JOHN PILGER: Freedom From Fear
T.J. Coles interviews the world-renowned journalist and filmmaker, John Pilger, about the coronavirus crisis in the context of propaganda, imperialism, and human rights.
COVID-19: How Germany is Managing its Outbreak & Reacting with Disdain to Trump’s Policies
A “short time” system, which proved highly successful during the Great Recession of 2008-2012, is being used to prevent a wave of unemployment, Klaus W. Larres reports.
COVID-19: The Mutilated World Is Moved by the Nurses and Doctors
There is no substitute, as this catastrophe unfolds, to transfer priorities from privatization to the creation of a robust public sector at the very least for health, says Vijay Prashad.
COVID-19: The American Mask of Death
Health industry executives themselves are at risk because they’ve put profit before public health, says Joe Lauria.
Secret Reason Rx Drugs Cost So Much: Global Web of Patent Laws Protects Big Pharma
Patents and other intellectual property rights allow the multinationals to evade competition for years on end, writes Faisal Chaudhry.