Biden’s Patent Madness
When the Biden administration announced in early May that it supported suspending global intellectual-property protections for COVID-19 vaccines, much of the world applauded. Advocates for the waiver of the so-called Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) argued that relaxing patent rights for the medicines developed by Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson would enable generic manufacturers the world over to produce much cheaper yet equally effective vaccine doses in mass quantities and swiftly distribute them to the neediest places on the planet.
“This is a global health crisis,” U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said in a press release, “and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures.” While the Biden administration “believes strongly in intellectual property protections,” its “aim is to get as many safe and effective vaccines to as many peopl
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’ll do “whatever it takes” to restore order and that his goal is to “degrade” the ability of Hamas to threaten Israel.
In the previously uploaded February 2019 video, Greene, along with several other Trump supporters, taunted Ocasio-Cortez’s staff from outside her locked office door.
Former Pentagon chief: Trump approved National Guard troops on January 6 to protect fascist “demonstrators”
The House Oversight and Reform Committee convened the first hearing Wednesday at which the former heads of the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice testified about “unexplained delays and unanswered questions” regarding the attempted coup of January 6.
Testifying before the committee, more than four months after the siege, were former acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, and current Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee.
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill, questions Christopher Miller, former acting secretary of the Department of Defense, testifying virtually, during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on the Capitol breach on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)