Big Pharma's latest smokescreen: claiming that they give big drugstore chains so much discounts that price rises don't reach the pharma companies.

Even to the extent there is truth in this, it doesn't mean the system is ok. It permits horrible and sometimes deadly gouging.

We should replace the private negotiations that benefit a few giant chains of drugstores with a negotiation by the government that benefits all people that need medicines.

The government should make drug effect studies honest, by stopping Big Pharma from paying for those studies and taxing those companies instead to pay for them,

One unfairness that keeps women down is that they are taught to apologize when someone mistreats them.

It is unfortunate that the article uses "ingrained into our DNA" as a metaphor for this, since the crucial point is that apologism is not innate in women, rather taught to women.

The UK Student Climate Network manifesto.

Rebecca Solnit: Thank you, climate strikers. Your action matters and your power will be felt.

A march for Women's rights in Pakistan got the response of massive intimidation.

New York City's Hudson Yards is designed purely for the wealthy, subsidized with lots of public money, and used to break unions.