The choice is stark, save lives or save the profits of Big Pharma by protecting their, quote, intellectual property, close quote, over coronavirus vaccines.

Meanwhile, inequality deepens despite the ongoing vaccination drive in the United States.

We need a new system. We need a new system.

We need a new society.

We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago,

but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Decidity.

Deepening unemployment, a looming wave of evictions, massive and widening inequality, there's no denying it. Capitalism is in crisis and capitalism is the crisis.

We are excited to have Professor Richard Wolffe again join us for our regular weekly

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being the sickness is the system when capitalism fails to save us from pandemics or itself.

You can check out his work at R.D.Wolf.com. That's R.D.W.L.F.com. Professor Wolf, welcome

back. Thank you, Brian. Glad to be here. Well, we're very glad to have you.

I was not startled, but certainly, I don't know, I was upset when I opened the Washington Post this

morning. I live in Washington. The lead editorial, the thing that concerns the Washington Post editorial team,

opinion writers, the most, apparently, is that people in developing countries might have access

to the vaccine for COVID if patents, if intellectual property rights are lifted. Here's the editorial headline.

A patent-free people's vaccine, people's vaccine is in quotes for the snark. A patent-free

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