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Many CEOS, at the start of the pandemic, vowed to not take a salary last year to keep layoffs to a minimum. But new preliminary data from the Economic Policy Institute shows that the average CEO’s compensation still jumped 16% last year.

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Read the full article at Fortune.

The Biden administration earlier this month sent shock waves through the pharmaceutical industry when it expressed support for waiving COVID-19 vaccine patent protections.

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Read the full article at E&E News.

An Israel-Gaza ceasefire last week ended 11 days of bombardment that killed 258 Palestinians and 12 Israelis. A massive Israeli police action called Operation Law and Order, targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel, is now underway. Where does this all leave Gaza?

Khury Petersen-Smith, Middle East fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, joined KPFA’s Up Front to discuss.

Listen to the full interview at KPFA.

Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, joins WPFW’s Morning Morning QB to discuss the latest developments in Israel and Palestine.

Specifically, Bennis speaks to the three ways in which Israel is benefiting from their war with Gaza.

Listen to the interview at WPFW.

On this edition of Parallax, although a ceasefire appears to be on the horizon between Israel and Hamas, it still worth discussing the latest developments in the Israel/Palestine for those concerned about international relations, peace, and justice.

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Read the full article at Parallax Views.

NEW YORK — A recently released bombshell Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has made waves around the world. For the first time, the New York-based non-governmental organization has categorized Israel as an apartheid state guilty of “crimes against humanity.”

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Read the full article at MintPress.

We were bound to talk endlessly about the April 27 Human Rights Watch report accusing Israel of the “crime of apartheid” — but the news justifies us being a broken record. The report is getting a lot of attention in ways that earlier apartheid findings have not, including in the New York Times, and it appears to be filtering into the U.S. discourse.

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Read the full article at Mondoweiss.

John Feffer of the Institute for Policy Studies spoke with global policy experts to examine what the world could be like after the COVID-19 pandemic. This virtual event was hosted by Town Hall Seattle.

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Read the full article at CSPAN.

A Canadian company believes Namibia is sitting on the next – and perhaps even the last – giant onshore oil find.

IPS associate fellow Emira Woods joined CNN’s One World to explain the environmental cost as drilling begins in the Kavango Basin.

Watch the interview on One World host Zain Asher’s social media feed.

Bennis and Wilkerson agree on reparations but disagree on whether the U.S. should withdraw all troops. Phyllis Bennis and Larry Wilkerson join Paul Jay to discuss the pros and cons of each policy.

Listen to the full interview at The Analysis.

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