Syria War Crimes; Turkish Power Ship in Lebanon; Mali To Hold Elections This Year; Generic Drugs Win in India; US Supreme Court on Human Gene Patens; Zuckerberg Starts A Political Action Group; NEWZ Sources: Opensecrets.org.
This week Mark and Tim are looking at various newz around the world: Human Rights Watch has published a report accusing the Syrian government of war crimes. Close by in Lebanon a "power ship" is extending daily power supply of the country by two hours a day. The Malian government announces elections to be held this year. Novartis loses a drug patent case in India. The US supreme court ist about to decide if the Human Genome can be patented at all. Facebook guy Mark Zuckerberg starts a political action group in the US. We close by providing another NEWZ source: opensecrets.org and giving an update on upcoming travels and talks by Mark and Tim.
Links:
Can you please take a look at the feed. This Episode is not contained.
works for me.
I find the discussion of news sources interesting. It’s seldom though that I actually look at them, except in the case of the GlobalPost whose RSS feed landed in my personal news aggregation tool.
+1
Re: Novartis/Gleevec case
MSF compiled a timeline to the case:
http://www.msfaccess.org/content/timeline-key-events-novartiss-attack-pharmacy-developing-world
Tim, you were saying there was a place for pharma patents; its just that in this case there are so many levels of abuse of trade and patent laws that I’d have liked you to have read a little bit about the case beforehand.
Love the show anyway, and that it touches subjects close to my heart.
Regards, Benedikt
Where is the next episode?
We have to apologize but our schedules did not match up recently. Expect new episodes after re:publica.