Fresh audio product: UAW strike strategy, corps making money of publicly financed research
October 19, 2023 Stephanie Ross on the UAW’s innovative strike strategy against the Big Three automakers • Christopher Morten and Amy Kapczynski on how Corporate America profits off publicly funded research and how to stop them from doing that [apologies for lack of Gaza material—plenty due in coming weeks]
Fresh audio product: tensions on the Korean peninsula, pharma’s exploitation of patents and secrecy
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 27, 2023 Tim Shorrock marks the 70th anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean war as tensions mount across the region • Christopher Morten on how the drug industry uses patents and secrecy to fatten its profits at the expense of patients and the broader public
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 10, 2022 Alexander Zaitchik, author of Owning the Sun, on how the pharmaceutical industry became such a high-priced racket • Zongyuan Zoe Liu, co-author of this article, on sanctions and the global pre-eminence of the US dollar
Fresh audio product
Just added to my radio archives: November 7, 2013 Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, on repression and daily life in that country October 31, 2013 Michelle Chen, author of this article, on how drug companies use patents to screw the sick • Mark Ames on libertarianism and the Koch Bros. network
Citi update
Brad DeLong, um, comments on the 19-month-old Citigroup report on the Treasury’s bank policy that Citi demanded that WordPress and I take down: Citigroup’s View of the Obama Administration in February 2009… – Grasping Reality with Both Hands.
LBO News from Doug Henwood 