Gilead Pharmaceutical is taking advantage of its patent on a drug that’s helping Covid-19 patients, Remedesivir. They’ve given the drug a ridiculous price, especially considering that the US government funded the medicine. Once again, the US is number one… this time it’s number one in failing its citizens. Millions of US workers who haven’t lost their jobs are seeing their wages and hours cut, and this wouldn’t be possible with an organized labor force, corporate media behemoths own up to their journalistic failures, and more.
The Trump administration is trying to charge peaceful protesters as foreign terrorists. Naomi Karavani reports on how federal prosecutors are threatening people with draconian charges for taking part in the George Floyd uprising. Natalie McGill and Lee discuss how no arrests have been made yet in the cop murder of Breonna Taylor, and the emerging conspiracy around a plan to gentrify her neighborhood, recent activity – good and bad – from the Supreme Court, and more.
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