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Who Owns the COVID-19 Vaccines? | On the Media | WNYC Studios
▻https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/who-owns-covid-19-vaccines-on-the-media

And as it stands, that’s limited to the companies that hold the intellectual property that underlies them. In this segment, Brooke speaks with Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, about how our intellectual property climate helped give rise to the current shortages, and what a better path forward might look like.

Et Dean Baker d’expliciter dans un touit:
▻https://twitter.com/DeanBaker13/status/1355521729871847425

It is incredible that the U.S. and other governments didn’t suspend patents at the start and have dozens of factories producing billions of doses of any vaccine that made it to Phase 3 testing. But hey, why would anyone care about saving lives (and the economy)?

Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market

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▻https://www.thenation.com/article/amazon-doesnt-just-want-to-dominate-the-market-it-wants-to-become-the-mar

To think of Amazon as a retailer, though, is to profoundly misjudge the scope of what its founder and chief executive, Jeff Bezos, has set out to do. (...)
Instead, it’s that Bezos has designed his company for a far more radical goal than merely dominating markets; he’s built Amazon to replace them. His vision is for Amazon to become the underlying infrastructure that commerce runs on.

In the left-behind towns and neighborhoods, the despair that has set in stems from more than just economic hardship. There is a pervasive sense of powerlessness that is toxic to democracy. (...)
The cities that possessed a degree of local economic power had a bigger middle class and a greater variety of jobs, Mills and Ulmer found. But their most important findings had to do with civic health. The cities with a robust local economy invested more in public infrastructure and services, and their residents were involved in community affairs in greater numbers.

via an interview with the author on “On The Media”: ▻https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/making-america-antitrust-again-on-the-media
▻https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/otm/otm060519_cms940786_pod.mp3

#amazon #monopoly #democracy

14-Year Oil Spill Shows No Signs of Slowing

A massive oil spill off the coast of #Louisiana has been growing steadily for 14 years, as the company is suing the government to end its responsibility to the cleanup of the site.

Since Hurricane Ivan bowled over an oil rig belonging to #Taylor_Energy in 2004, the site has been spewing between 300 to 700 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico.

It could continue leaking oil into the ocean through this century, and the spill is on track to become one of the worst in U.S. history.

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On The Media | Face the Racist Nation
▻https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-2018-03-02

How to report about the far right?

#media #farRight #manipulation #racists #podcast #callASpadeASpade