We can build on the success of publicly funded drug research and development to include full-cycle development, testing, manufacture and distribution of innovative and affordable new prescription medicines.

The Democracy Collaborative’s Marjorie Kelly argues, in an exclusive interview for Truthout, that a democratic economy is our only way out of a destructive system of wealth supremacy.

In an interview with Democracy Collaborative president Joe Guinan, Marjorie Kelly discusses her new book, “Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises.”

Prescription drugs in the United States cost way too much, nearly double, in fact, what they cost in other wealthy nations. The pharmaceutical companies that make them, and that rake in the profits from their sale, argue that we must pay those prices in order to support the world class research required to develop the drugs. The newly published Public Pharmaceuticals: State Policy Kit, a collaboration of The Democracy Collaborative, the Democracy Policy Network, and T1International, offers solutions.

Northern Ireland’s Minister for Communities, Dierdre Hargey, formally accepted a report from her independent Minister’s Advisory Panel on Community Wealth Building. Joe Guinan, one of the panel members, was there to deliver remarks on this momentous occasion.

We’ve been tracking how, in just the last few weeks, elected officials, organizers, activists, and policymakers have brought the potential of broad public ownership to combat the unfolding social, economic, and ecological crises into the center of the conversation.