Drug Companies and Rich Countries Are Creating a System of Vaccine Apartheid, by Fatima Hassan
▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/23/dont-let-drug-companies-create-a-system-of-vaccine-apartheid
To avoid repeating the pitfalls of the HIV/AIDS crisis, governments and the WTO must make COVID-19 vaccination a public good by temporarily waiving intellectual property rights and compelling emergency production.
Biden: End U.S. Hypocrisy on Israeli Nukes
▻https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/biden-should-end-u-s-hypocrisy-on-israeli-nukes
As described by Adam Entous in a 2018 New Yorker article, every U.S. president since Bill Clinton has, at Israeli insistence, signed a secret letter upon entering office that effectively pledges the United States will not “press the Jewish state to give up its nuclear weapons so long as it continued to face existential threats in the region.” Whatever policy the United States adopts toward Israeli nuclear weapons, it’s time it stopped this demeaning rite.
How Four U.S. Presidents, including Obama and Trump, Helped Protect Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal | The…
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