Cult Of Ignorance by Nancy Ohanian By the end of last week, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. passed 10 million. On Saturday there were 127,167 new cases reported in the U.S., along with 1,030 new deaths. Yesterday 102,726 new cases were reported. There are now over 31,000 cases per million Americans. Anything over 20,000 is a catastrophic out-of-control pandemic.
By Aleksandra Serebriakova – Sputnik – 09.09.2020
The third round of trials for the AstraZeneca anti-COVID-19 drug is now on pause over “potentially unexplained illness” in a participant in the UK. On 11 August, Russia registered its own Sputnik V anti-coronavirus vaccine, which is said to have been developed in a different way.
As drug makers prepare to make a killing on supposed vaccines against COVID-19, it is important, particularly for those who consider vaccines to be a wise investment today, or those whose retirement savings might get invested in such vaccines without their knowledge, to reflect on the fact that corporations are themselves viruses that can only […]
The Congress can overturn the abuses of Big Pharma and its “pay or die,” subsidized business model for its drugs.
Big Pharma’s trail of greed, power, and cruelty gets worse every year. Its products and practices take hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. from over-prescriptions, lethal combinations of prescriptions, ineffective or contaminated drugs, and dangerous side-effects.
Shaky opinions, terrible decisions and 14,000 photos of cake + this day in history w/Lars vs. Napster and our song of the day by M. Ward on your Morning Monarchy for July 11, 2018.
On the morning of March 14, a first-year UCLA medical student named Kayla Gu approached the microphone at a meeting of her university’s Board of Regents. Speaking in a white coat with a stethoscope around her neck, she urged the university to drop a patent claim pending at India’s high court, which the David Geffen School of Medicine filed in order to block generic production of the prostate cancer drug enzalutamide, trade name Xtandi. Though developed at UCLA with tens of millions in funding from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S.
By Pete Dolack | Systemic Disorder | October 11, 2107 It’s no secret that the United States suffers from by far the world’s highest costs for health care. As the most market-oriented health care system among advanced capitalist countries, this is no surprise. Health care in the U.S. is designed to deliver corporate profits, not […]
Drive-in breach, sports drink freaks and a Death Wish recall + this day in history w/Phil Spector charged and our song of the day by Wild Ones on your Morning Monarchy for September 27, 2017.
By Martha Rosenberg | CounterPunch | August 23, 2017 Next month, hundreds across the country will participate in “Out of the Darkness” walks to raise awareness about suicide and to support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). AFSP and similar groups like the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Active Minds claim there […]
