Daily Archives: October 2, 2021

2021-10-02: News Headlines

Pasqualina Curcio (2021-10-02). Inequality in Vaccines: The Moral Failure of Capitalism. orinocotribune.com By Pasqualina Curcio — Sep 27, 2021 | In two months 241 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines will expire, not counting the 34 million that have already expired and were discarded in the USA. These 241 million are part of the 1.2 billion doses left over in the US, Canada, UK, Japan and the European Union, which are also about to expire and will go to the landfill if they are not donated and applied before December of this year (Arirfinity report on COVID-19 vaccine prognosis and expiration for 2021 and 2022). | Despite this, the rich countries and members of the G7 continue to close contracts with pharmaceutica…

Jubilee USA Network (2021-10-02). Wealthy Countries Must Share Pandemic Relief Aid, Organizations Say. indybay.org In a letter to finance ministers, 250 organizations call on wealthy countries to donate IMF emergency currency they don't need to poor countries. In August, the IMF created $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to support global coronavirus response. More than $400 billion went to wealthy countries and $230 billion went to developing countries.

_____ (2021-10-01). Hungry for Change? With Sixty Million Americans Going Hungry, the United States Needs to Make Peace Not War. strategic-culture.org The United States cannot afford to maintain a war economy. Such a hyper-militarized economy is inciting dangerous tensions between nuclear powers, as well as eroding the very material foundations of American society. | Food hunger in the United States has reached shocking levels with new Rising food poverty in the U.S. has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic as millions of workers are laid off. A…

MEE staff (2021-10-01). UN calls on Lebanon to carry out economic reforms as poverty levels rise. middleeasteye.net UN calls on Lebanon to carry out economic reforms as poverty levels rise | UN humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon says starvation is 'growing reality' for thousands | Fri, 10/01/2021 – 19: 11 | People wait in line at a bakery in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's Beirut on 13 August 2021, amidst a shortage of basic items due to a severe economic crisis (AFP) | The United Nations has issued a dire warning on

PAI (2021-10-01). 6.5 million people fell off cliff when unemployment supplemental expired Sept. 4. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—The financial bottom dropped out for almost 6.5 million people nationwide in the week after Sept. 4, the Labor Department's weekly unemployment insurance claims report said. That week was when their federal jobless benefits came to a dead halt. The entire decline was in special programs to keep people financially afloat during the coronavirus …

Mark Gruenberg (2021-10-01). Vatican conference: Bishop Barber says capitalism has failed, new politics needed. peoplesworld.org "Interlocking fusion movements, regardless of faith" are needed to unite and help lift the world's billions of poor and low-wealth people, Bishop the Rev. William Barber II, founder and co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, will tell a special Vatican-sponsored conference on October 3. And Barber expects Pope Francis I—another outspoken advocate for lifting the …

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