*Millions predicted to develop tuberculosis as result of Covid-19 lockdown.*

*With Patents on Coronavirus Medicines, International Drug Companies Will Decide Whether Brazilians Live or Die.*

Not just Brazilians — Americans, too. US government policies encourage and help pharma companies to gouge, and the only check on them is public condemnation.

Since important drugs are developed with public funds, there is no need to give businesses an "incentive" to fund such research. We should eliminate patents on medicines and medical treatments. We may as well eliminate all patents.

*The largest hospital corporation in America, HCA Healthcare, is using the coronavirus pandemic to delay and undermine a union election for 1,600 nurses in North Carolina.*

We should prohibit for-profit hospitals. The aim for profit conflicts with the mission of a hospital.

*Brazil using coronavirus to cover up assaults on Amazon, warn activists.*

Governor Cuomo has asked two software billionaires to help him "reimagine" public school. One of them got rich from user-subjugating nonfree software, the other from surveillance capitalism by online dis-services.

We can imagine what injustices they will push on New York State public schools. And it isn't even a good education.

In the case of Bill Gates, we don't need to imagine. His foundation pressured the US to impose excruciating high-stakes tests, so that the whole school year is aimed at them. He offers so much money as grants for research on education that hardly anyone in the field dares to express doubts about his stance.