ERIC ZUESSE—”On the night of 18 August, the “international domain name registry” blocked southfront.org without any warning or explanation. Despite the fact that this organisation has been formally independent since 1998, it is actually controlled by the US Department of Commerce. What they have done is an unprecedented action in the history of modern information society. This is the American way of democracy, freedom of speech and the rule of law.”
CAPITALIST FRONTS
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RYAN WHITTON—ne of the essential criteria for an advanced industrial society is access to a heavy forging press. Many are familiar with hydraulic presses crushing sweets and watermelons. Heavy forging presses are identical as a concept, but are the size of a 10-story building. Large hydraulic presses were initially demonstrated in 1646 by the French polymath Blaise Pascal. They were first incorporated into industrial processes by the English inventor Joseph Bramah in the late 18th century. Since then, these presses have grown to enormous proportions. Today, they are essential to the manufacture of big machines.
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JIMMY DORE SHOW—Which is a greater threat to the average American, sunburn or lack of medical care? Well, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has shown she’s not going to do anything about the latter, so at least she’s dedicating time and energy to reducing your exposure to the sun’s harmful rays in the form of a recent video she recorded demanding changes to the FDA’s regulations regarding sunscreen.
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EDITOR—Though drug giants Novartis AG and Gilead Sciences Inc. have been marketing CAR-T globally since 2017, it’s expensive. The process of engineering an individual’s cells in a laboratory and then replicating them has also meant that some patients with more aggressive cancers can die waiting for treatment.
That’s where Gracell’s therapy was revolutionary. Instead of the two to three weeks taken by current treatments from American and European drug makers, the Shanghai-based company — set up by a group of veteran Chinese cell-therapy researchers — is churning out cancer-killing immune cells overnight.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—I found it incredibly sleazy how they were making a product that could actually help make households a kinder to the environment less accessible while presenting themselves as ecowarriors who want to save the planet. I told them I charge way more than I knew they’d ever pay me for the job and got the hell out of there, but lo and behold I did see Lectric Soda shoot up in price fourfold shortly thereafter.