This week, on the Global Research News Hour we share the disappointing news, in the eyes of some critics, that a modified, watered down version of the  Pandemic  Agreement was finally approved at the World Health Assembly last month, and the prospects for rights and national sovereignty moving forward.
In our first half hour, we play an excerpt from a September 2024 interview with journalist and film maker James Corbett of the Corbett Report on last year’s failure of the Pandemic Agreement in which he successfully predicted the threat it represented   would be approved sooner or later. And in our second half hour, we spoke to commentator Dr. Meryl Nass about what is still problematic about this year’s approach to stopping apparently much more frequent pandemic calls in the years ahead.

The WHO Pandemic Treaty is the New World (Health) Order. Ending National Sovereignty in 2025

Cities across the US are rethinking streets, going beyond sidewalks and bike lanes to welcome nonmotorists to share the roadway. David L. Prytherch traces the historical evolution of America’s streets and explores contemporary movements to retake them from cars for diverse forms of mobility and community life. Can we design more just streets? Here, Pryterch gets into it with Mimi Sheller and Peter Norton.



David Prytherch is professor of geography at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is author of Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets; Law, Engineering, and the American Right-of-Way: Imagining a More Just Street; and coeditor of Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space. 

Mimi Sheller is Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Sheller is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities, founding co-director of the Centre for Mobilities at Lancaster University, England, and past president of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. Sheller is author of Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes.

Peter Norton is associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City and Autonorama: The Illustory Promise of High-Tech Driving.




REFERENCES:
John Urry
The Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane Jacobs
People for Mobility Justice
Robert Moses
Complete Streets
The Untokening
Kimberly Crenshaw



Praise for the book:
How are cities across the United States reclaiming their streets as more equitable and diverse public spaces for everyone? Reclaiming the Road combines the history of urban planning and street design standards with theoretical insights about mobility politics and struggles for access and equity. Reporting from the front lines of recent post-pandemic physical and cultural transformations of public space in nine major American cities, David L. Prytherch raises profound questions about what streets are for and how they might be equitably shared. The result is a fresh, hopeful vision for intersectional mobility justice and public placemaking.
—Mimi Sheller, author of Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes

David L. Prytherch gives a crisp, clear, and accessible narrative of the movement to reclaim public streets after one hundred years of domination by private automobile interests. He touches on many of the key players in this epic struggle, from traffic engineers to complete streets and mobility justice advocacy. Steering us through the politics of streets during the Covid-19 pandemic and recovery, this is a refreshingly innovative and optimistic book for anyone concerned about our urban mobility future.
—Jason Henderson, coauthor of Street Fights in Copenhagen: Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility City



Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets by David L. Prytherch is available from University of Minnesota Press.





Can we design better public streets?

The Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2025 - AMNC25 - will bring together leaders from government, business and academia, along with innovators and representatives from international organizations, media and civil society. In this special episode produced in collaboration with Caixin Global, World Economic Forum Managing Director Mirek Dusek sets the scene for the 'Summer Davos' in Tianjin, China. And Jen Zhu Scott, founding partner of IN. Capital, gives an insider's view of China and its place in the world. Co-hosted by Li Xin, managing editor of Caixin Global. Catch up on all the action from AMNC25 at  and across social media using the hashtag #AMNC25. Links: AMNC25:    Caixin Global:  Related podcasts:    Check out all our podcasts on&nbsp;:&nbsp;  -   - :   - :   - :  Join the :

What to expect from the 'Summer Davos' AMNC; and what the West gets wrong about China

SPARS Pandemic

SPARS Pandemic UFO 2025

For the 13th consecutive year, the World Economic Forum has released its report on the top ten technologies set to change the world for the better. These technologies will speed our efforts to tackle everything from the energy transition to neurodegenerative diseases and more. Based on expert nominations and rigorous examination, the solutions drive home to leaders the increasing ways that technologies are converging and building on each other and showcase the importance of technology foresight as a key strategic tool to make meaningful change, integration and investment happen. Guests guiding us through this report for the fifth year include Bernie Meyerson, chief innovation officer emeritus at IBM, and Mariette DiChristina, Dean and professor of the practice of journalism at Boston University College of Communication. &nbsp;  This interview was recorded in May 2025 in the New York office of the World Economic Forum.   Top 10 Emerging Technologies for this year: - Structural Battery Composites - Collaborative Sensing - Green Nitrogen Fixation - Generative Watermarking - Engineered Living Therapeutics - GLP-1s for Neurodegenerative Diseases - Autonomous Biochemical Sensing - Next-Gen Nuclear Energy - Osmotic Power Systems - Nanozymes  About this episode:  Top 10 Emerging Technologies Report 2025:  These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2025:  Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-ten-emerging-tech-2025   Mariette DiChristina, Boston University:  Bernie Meyerson: https://www.ibm.com/history/bernard-meyerson  Related podcasts: Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2024:  Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-technologies-2023/

Tech poised to change the world: Top Ten Emerging Technologies of 2025

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Beatrice speaks with Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles W. Griffis of The Sick Times about what the Trump administration has done in its first few months to set back long covid research and to deepen what we’ve long called the sociological production of the end of the pandemic.

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@Technovvintage — a resident of m_division, who has cemented her love for the thundering and clanking sound of harsh EBM in the minds of listeners, recalls in the mix the origins of her alter ego, when she played within the walls of KPD and RAF25. 

Here, Elina pays tribute to the dynamic and harsh aesthetics of Pandemic, and also turns to the fast and dense sound of industrial and hard techno.

Pandemic Checkpoint #15 - Technovvintage

This cover literally was last I mixed, it was long and I had to know many things where to put effects to which parts to make it sound like it would be made in original. True masterpiece by Abel, best song from After Hours obviously, with painful, full of grief and sadness content and with haunting instrumental. I think it went great, so I hope, y'all gon' love this one too.

After Hours (The Weeknd Cover) (Soundcloud Voice Memo Version)

From anonymous forum posts and Chatroulette chaos to TikTok scams and AI-generated lies, the internet has always been a playground for deception. In this episode, we reflect on how digital manipulation has evolved through the decades, sparked by our own experience living with Autumn during lockdown who was never quite who she said she was. Her ability to twist narratives, hide behind online personas, and exploit the chaos of the pandemic made us realise: she’s not alone. In this episode of Bizarre Bedfellow, we explore how the internet enabled people like her to thrive.

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