Pharmaceuticals

From TMAP to Warp Speed: How Big Pharma Algorithms Fast-Track Unapproved Drugs and Vaccines

Five of the pharmaceutical companies developing COVID-19 vaccines through the USA’s Operation Warp Speed have paid out a total of nearly $6 billion to settle lawsuits charging them with fraud related to “off-label” marketing of atypical antipsychotics and antidepressants that were mandated through the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), which evolved into President George W. […]

Healthcare Innovations: Going Too Far or Not Far Enough?

Image Source: Pexels Technological innovations have reshaped the world drastically in only a matter of decades, giving us life-changing devices like smartphones that allow us to tap into worlds of information instantly. The healthcare sector, however, for all its developments, is not quite catching up to the rates of innovation seen in other industries. Introducing […]

The Imperative To Achieve National Improved Medicare For All

NOTE: The Kevin Zeese Emerging Activists Fund is accepting applicants for an unrestricted grant of $20,000 until December 13, 2020. Learn more at PopularResistance.org/kevin-zeese/. And join us for a webinar with Venezuelan social movements on November 18 to hear about their upcoming elections and how we can support their struggle against US intervention. Details at […]

A Dedicated Obsession: Washington’s Continuing Iran Sanctions Regime

One dogma that is likely to persist in US foreign policy during a Biden presidency will be the sanctions regime adopted towards Iran.  Every messianic state craves clearly scripted enemies, and the demonology about the Islamic Republic is not going to go begging.  Elliot Abrahams, the current US special representative for Iran, told Associated Press […]

What We are up Against: Fascism in the United States

Are you or do you know an emerging activist who needs support? Popular Resistance and the Kevin Zeese family are launching the Kevin Zeese Emerging Activists Fund with an online celebration on his birthday, this Wednesday, October 28, from 7:30 to 9:00 pm Eastern.  Learn more and buy tickets here.  We will begin accepting applications […]
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Covid-19: A Series of Unlikely Events

You could say I lost my faith in science and progress… I never saw no miracle of science, That didn’t go from a blessing to a curse — Sting, “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You” (Recorded in 1992, Released in 1993) I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking.  And apparently […]
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Superman Versus The Davos Despots

George Carlin warned all good Americans to think critically at their own peril.  Although life has now become somewhat difficult…even lonely at times, I have forsaken his fascetious advice.  When I was a child, my grandfather was my god.  Pops.  I can still see his steady eyes touching some secret place deep inside me as […]
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Confess to Covid: just short of witch burning

English propaganda poster by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, London 1915 (Wikipedia Commons)
Despite the lamentations and orders from Geneva or the local capitals of Capital, I refuse to believe that COVID-19 or the putative pathogens are a principal challenge to humanity — except for those using these viruses for policing and/or culling the population.