Follow RT on Tributes have poured in for former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, who died aged 91 after spending his political career opposing America’s foreign wars, military spending and surveillance state.
Gravel died at his home in Seaside, California, on Saturday. According to an AP report, he had been in poor health for some time beforehand.
We are sad to announce that Senator Mike Gravel passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, at his home in Seaside, California. He was 91, and had lived the fullest live anyone could have ever wanted. We will miss him every day. pic.twitter.com/wLXLzMbgZT Gravel Institute (@GravelInstitute) June 27, 2021
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Rolling Stone Menu Biden Reverses on Vaccine Patent Restrictions in Move that Could Help India with Covid Pandemic
Biden follows through on campaign commitment: “This is the only humane thing in the world to do”
By Dipayan Bose/NurPhoto/AP
In a dramatic, and likely life-saving, reversal, the Biden administration has announced that it favors breaking patent protections on Covid-19 vaccines to speed their deployment in combating the global pandemic.
The announcement came from the office of the United States Trade Representative, Katherine Tai who vowed to make the case for waiving the intellectual property rights before of the World Trade Organization. “This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures,” Tai wrote. While emphasizing that the Biden administration “believes strongly in intellectual property protections” as a general principle, it now backs waiving vaccine IP �