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Tim Schwab & “The Bill Gates Problem” Town Hall Seattle Podcast

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Tim Schwab, author of  the recently published “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the myth of the good billionaire,” headlined a Seattle Town Hall event in December 2024 sponsored by the Community Alliance for Global Justice. In this podcast of the event, Tim explains how Bill Gates’ uses his foundation as a vehicle for unaccountable personal power and influence, using taxpayers dollars. He describes how  dogmatic belief in the primacy of the private sector and their patent interests and the…

Gates Foundation: Improve global health without addressing structural causes

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Nicholas Kulish (NYTimes podcast/discussion) discusses how Bill Gates has defined problems and solutions to global health, avoiding structural change and protecting Big Pharma patent protections,  while burnishing his image as a global health savior: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/podcasts/the-daily/coroanvirus-vaccine-bill-gates-covax.html “Bill Gates is, in many ways, a representative figure…of an era where private companies have such a huge say in public health. He represents the limitations of what we’re willing to do, which is we don’t want to hurt the bottom lines of industry. And…