Amnesty International criticizes governments for blocking a proposal in the World Trade Organization to waive patents on treatment for Covid-19. The governments which opposed it are evidently under the power of plutocracy.

Approving that proposal would have been a step forward, but the WTO's patent rules are unjust all the time — for poor countries especially, but ultimately for all countries.

The parts of the TRIPES agreement (Trade-Restricting Impediments to Production, Education and Science) concerning copyrights and patents ought to be abolished.

Protesters in Belarus are not giving up, and say that their next step is a national strike.

*Sanctions punished the Sudanese people, not their rulers. The US extracting compensation is one more hypocritical act.*

It reminds me of the indemnity that Haiti had to pay to France for its independence. Placing sanctions on a country is not the same thing as a claim to rule a country as a colony, but the resemblance is there nonetheless.

Nigerians are protesting to demand justice against a special thug squad that has "turned into banditry."

The conman's deal with Foxconn to "create jobs" in Wisconsin was a con from the beginning.