Nobody embodies the EU’s elite-driven nature better than its incumbent president, Ursula von der Leyen. And no action of hers embodies its warped excesses better than her decision, in April 2021, to single-handedly sign off on a €35-billion deal for the purchase of 1.8 billion doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. According to one analysis, the price per dose she agreed was 15 times higher than the cost of production — meaning that the EU overpaid the vaccines by tens of billions of euros.
Economics
Ann Pettifor – The money system & the false hope of UBI
‘Why a system of worklessness would fail both society and planet’. In Ann Pettifor’s Substack. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Jacob Weisberg: The Autocracy App
Facebook is a company that has lost control—not of its business, which has suffered remarkably little from its series of unfortunate events since the 2016 election, but of its consequences. Read here
Geopolitics
Mohammed Magdy – Belgium’s Arrest of IDF Soldiers Could Be a Watershed Moment
‘Belgium’s detention of Israeli soldiers over alleged war crimes in Gaza has set a historic precedent for holding Israel to account for its war crimes. And it’s a sign that the tide is turning against […]
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