Foreign Correspondent: The Upcoming Fights Over COVID-19 Vaccines
In recent days, two U.S. pharmaceutical companies announced that their COVID-19 vaccines could be available by December. U.S.-based Pfizer, who partnered with the German-based BioNTech, said it has a 95 percent success rate during clinical trials. Biotechnology company Moderna also reported a vaccine with a 94.5 percent efficacy rate. Neither drug has undergone peer review by independent experts. The […]
What Kyle Rittenhouse’s $2 Million Fundraiser Reveals About the Unequal System of Justice in America
On Friday, Cynthia Green stood outside a grassy field at a folding table, selling french fries, corn fritters, and rib sandwiches to try and raise enough money to bury her 18-year-old son, who had been shot dead by a sheriff’s deputy in Cocoa, Florida, one week earlier. Green couldn’t afford the funeral costs on her […]
As Biden Taps Blinken as Secretary of State, Critics Denounce Support for Invasions of Iraq and Libya
With the upper ranks of President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy team beginning to take shape after new reporting indicated he plans to nominate long-time adviser Antony Blinken as secretary of state, progressives raised alarm over Blinken’s support for the disastrous 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the 2011 assault on Libya as well as his recent consulting work of […]
‘Iran in the Crosshairs?’ Reports of Secret Meeting Between Netanyahu, MbS, and Pompeo Spark Fears of War Plot
The alarming possibility of a military attack on Iran—a nation that has long been in the sights of war hawks in the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Israel—was immediately invoked by foreign policy analysts Monday following reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in secret late Sunday with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. […]
Factory Farms Are Poisoning Rural Communities. Will Biden Take on This Crisis?
In spite of the low marks Joe Biden earned from progressive groups during the primaries — including an “F” from the Sunrise Movement and a “C+” from the Center for Biological Diversity — the Biden campaign closed out the presidential race on climate-high notes, running ads featuring farmers impacted by climate change in Michigan and Arizona. To deliver […]
Rapid Testing Is Less Accurate Than the Government Wants to Admit
The promise of antigen tests emerged like a miracle this summer. With repeated use, the theory went, these rapid and cheap coronavirus tests would identify highly infectious people while giving healthy Americans a green light to return to offices, schools and restaurants. The idea of on-the-spot tests with near-instant results was an appealing alternative to the slow, […]
‘It Should Belong to Humanity’: Funded by Public, Promising Moderna Results Bolster Global Call for #PeoplesVaccine
A week after similar news from Pfizer, the American biotechnology company Moderna announced Monday that a late-stage trial shows its experimental coronavirus vaccine is 94.5% effective, provoking a fresh wave of demands that Big Pharma giants and policymakers worldwide ensure that any Covid-19 vaccine developed using taxpayer money and government support be safe, free, and available to […]
Ceasefire Ends in Occupied Western Sahara After U.S.-Backed Moroccan Military Launches Operation
A nearly three-decade-old ceasefire has ended in occupied Western Sahara — what many consider to be Africa’s last colony. Fighting has broken out in several areas between the Moroccan military and the Polisario Front, the Sahrawi liberation movement seeking independence, after the Moroccan military broke into a no-go buffer zone in southern Western Sahara. For […]
A New Vision for Immigration
The election of Joe Biden as the next President of the United States has come as a great relief to Natzieli Alvarez—and nearly 650,000 other undocumented immigrants, who are protected from deportation by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. As a nine-year-old in 1995, Alvaraz crossed the border with her mother and sister to escape […]
ICE Deports Migrant Women Who Allege Abuse by Georgia Gynecologist
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are attempting to silence migrant women who alleged abuse by a Georgia gynecologist at an immigration detention center, according to lawyers who spoke to The Associated Press. The Trump administration has already deported six of Dr. Mahendra Amin’s former patients, and now lawyers say at least seven other women at the Irwin County […]