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January 5, 2022

A Texas Team Comes Up With a Covid Vaccine that Could Be a Global Game Changer

Joe Palca NPR

Intellectual property of this vaccine will be available to everybody. "And it's cheap, a dollar, dollar fifty a dose. You're not going to get less expensive than that." An Indian company is already producing 100 million doses a month.

January 5, 2022

McConnell Openly Admits His Very Real Fear Is American Democracy Actually Working

Julia Conley Common Dreams

The Senate Minority Leader accused Democrats of "genuine radicalism" as they attempt to reform the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation.

January 5, 2022

Veterans' Health Care for Mental and Environmental Illnesses Under Attack

Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon Portside

Not content with trying to gut welfare state programs that benefit millions of non-veterans, these conservatives are now targeting former soldiers, who are often poor or working class, and similarly dependent on publicly funded services.

January 5, 2022

Workers Across the US Are Rising Up. Can They Turn Their Anger into a Movement?

Steven Greenhouse The Guardian

Workers went on strike at Kellogg’s, Nabisco, John Deere, Columbia University and numerous hospitals. Will this surge of worker action and anger be a mere flash in the pan or will it be part of a longer-lasting phenomenon?

January 5, 2022

Multimillionaire Counterrevolutionary: Mark R. Levin’s New Book "American Marxism"

Matt Bokovoy People's World

This is yet another of the recent books by conservative and libertarian writers that pretend to explain Marxism and socialism to their far right wing and pro-fascist audiences.

January 5, 2022