Major drug maker reports encouraging findings for a covid vaccine. We will speak to dr. Saad omer, the director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. Then nine months into the pandemic, we look at how many hospitals are failing to provide adequate ppe to doctors and nurses. We will talk to jean ross, copresident of National Nurses united. We have been calling for this protection for Health Care Workers, not just for many months now, but also, if you recall, since the ebola crisis hit our shores. And sad to say, we are still very lacking. Amy plus, Central America has been devastated by backtoback Climate Changefueled hurricanes over the past two weeks. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States recorded nearly 167,000 new coronavirus cases on monday, the third highest daily toll of the pandemic. The official u. S. Death toll, already the highest in the world, is rapidly approaching 250,000 with
Major drug maker reports encouraging findings for a covid vaccine. We will speak to dr. Saad omer, the director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. Then nine months into the pandemic, we look at how many hospitals are failing to provide adequate ppe to doctors and nurses. We will talk to jean ross, copresident of National Nurses united. We have been calling for this protection for Health Care Workers, not just for many months now, but also, if you recall, since the ebola crisis hit our shores. And sad to say, we are still very lacking. Amy plus, Central America has been devastated by backtoback Climate Changefueled hurricanes over the past two weeks. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States recorded nearly 167,000 new coronavirus cases on monday, the third highest daily toll of the pandemic. The official u. S. Death toll, already the highest in the world, is rapidly approaching 250,000 with
At grave risk, and in story after story this book chronicles how powerful players have hijacked the language of science to the detriment of we, the people, the essential bedrock of our democracy. Attacks on science and democracy are not new, though todays Political Climate brings them into sharp relief. Were witnessing the denial of facts and evidence, the dismantling of science and scientific the expertise in our federal agencies and the rollback of evidencebased public protections. The bottom line is that when science is sidelined in government decisions, people get hurt. And this assault poses an additional threat to our democracy. Indeed, the very fundamental institutions of our democracy our elected officials, appointed officials, our laws, our regulatory system, even the courts are under threat. Government is increasingly responding to the interests of the few over the interests of the many. Trust and confidence in our governmental and Public Institutions are eroding. Voter suppr
Good afternoon. My name is george perkelvich and im going to talk a little as people enter the room. Its good to see you all here. Our topic today is the legality of Nuclear Deterrence. This is not a topic that you tend to find on Cable Television political shows or on op ed pages or in president ial debates, where probably if youre lucky at your summer bar bar becues, but it is an important topic. One of the reasons the question of the legality of Nuclear Deterrence is so important and often underappreciated, is that the women and men whose job it is to carry out nuclear operations, to manage our Nuclear Weapons and conduct operations with them, they understandably need to know that what they might be asked to do is considered legal and legitimate. And in many ways, obviously, society ohs them that kind of del deliberation. So its a quite important topic and its also, obviously as well hear, not so simple. The legality of deterrence may be distinguishable from the legality of using Nu
Energy nearly 3 decades later for many of the people who went out to hit the streets it was a clear victory but was a really the Climate Crisis has forced many experts to reconsider Nuclear Energy and made even worse ill turn it its after all has a much lower Carbon Footprint than many other conventional Power Sources today made it we ask ourselves why not nuclear but lets back up back in 20 alive and it became all too clear just how dangerous Nuclear Energy could be after a tsunami led to one of the biggest meltdowns in history the Company Behind the plant has struggled ever since to come back. Tepco the Company Responsible for the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear disaster more than 160000 people had to be evacuated the zone around the facility is still sealed off but tepco is still pursuing Nuclear Power with the blessing of the japanese government as you know as you know we learned from fukushima that Nuclear Power carries great risks but we believe that it is possible to operate Nuclear Powe