The US is considering approving the product even as Monsanto juggles multiple multi-million dollar lawsuits from cancer patients over its deadly Roundup herbicide. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) The United States Department of Agriculture is ...
Experts warn that continued world population growth will make things worse. For decades, the public health officials like those at the World Health Organization warned that overcrowding exacerbates the risks of pandemics. Hygiene, social distancing ...
“I don’t kid. Let me just tell you. Let me make it clear,” said President Donald Trump. The statement came as a response to White House officials who insisted the president was simply joking when ...
“In June, the WHO, along with other UN agencies, released a landmark study, ‘Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020.’ Sadly, this study—like so much about the status of children in our time—has ...
It is not just for purposes of getting a vaccine and treatments quickly that we should want fully open research. (Common Dreams) I know I have been pounding on this a lot, but it is ...
“Certainly things held indoors are less safe than things held outdoors. But all these large gatherings are going to lead to spread. There’s just no question about it.” President Donald Trump is preparing to return ...
“It is fantastic that the first treatment demonstrated to reduce mortality is one that is instantly available and affordable worldwide.” Since COVID-19 swept across the globe, researchers have searched for vaccines and treatments that will ...
A team of 85 Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Peru on June 3 to help the Andean nation tackle the coronavirus pandemic. That same day, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced another tightening of ...
Americans are struggling. Around the globe, better responses to COVID-19 offer lessons to the U.S. In the United States, the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has centered on bailouts of mega-corporations and big banks. Citizens ...
COVID-19 is the first global pandemic of the internet era. Information is now transferred at the speed of light rather than the speed of Morse code. This gives us a big advantage over our ancestors—if ...
Congress must act decisively to guarantee health care to everyone in the country. It should do so on moral grounds, it should do so on public health grounds, and it should do so to help ...
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt American life, expanding legal services can help Americans endure. Eddie Brown seemed to fit the profile of a federal inmate most eligible for emergency release during the ongoing coronavirus ...
The U.S. has fumbled its own response to the pandemic at the same time that its greedy and selfish behavior about vaccines alienates the rest of the world. Donald Trump launched a new vaccine war ...
“The federal government should have acquired, contracted for tests, PPE, they should have made it available to states in much greater quantities.” The COVID-19 virus has hit elderly populations the hardest, but despite pleas from ...
This is the seventh and final article in series about the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee’s Shark Tank Initiative Hearing. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 , Part 6 ...
This is the sixth in the multi-article series about the Shark Tank initiative, discussion Dr. Bright’s whistleblower complaint about corruption, political and industry influence in BARDA’s work. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, ...
“If he retains stock in companies that are investing in the development of a vaccine,” said government watchdog CREW, “we can’t be confident of the integrity of any process in which he is involved.” (By: ...
Countries around the world are starting to ease restrictions in an attempt to return to some degree of normalcy. Countries around the world are starting to ease restrictions in an attempt to return to normalcy, ...
After publicly praising two foreign nurses, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to increase the amount they pay for healthcare. One of the crown jewels of the United Kingdom is its National Health Service, a ...
This is part 5 of a multi-article series about the COVID-19 Shark Tank initiative, focusing on seroprevalence and serosurveillance. Click here to read the previous articles , Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 ...
On May 13, the Senate failed to pass an amendment to the “Freedom Act” that would have required a search warrant for law enforcement to access a person’s browser information or internet search history. Freedom ...
This is part 4 of a multi-article series about the Shark Tank collaborative involving NIH and BARDA, discussing differences between the U.S., S. Korea and Sweden. Part 1 click here, Part 2 click here Part ...
“My commitment to both [accessibility and transparency] is largely (arguably entirely) the reason I am no longer managing it.” Rebekah Jones was the head of the data team overseeing Florida’s coronavirus public dashboard, a website ...
This is part 3 of a multi-article series about the Shark Tank collaborative involving NIH and BARDA Part 1 click here Part 2 click here BARDA’S Involvement Dr Gary Dr Disbrow – Acting Director of ...
Farm animals have less legal protection than other confined animals, such as those living in laboratories or zoos. In January 2020, an estimated 10,000 chickens perished in a fire just west of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. ...
“If you thought the antitrust cases of big tech were a memory, you’d be mistaken.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Anti-monopoly groups are celebrating news that the Justice Department and state attorneys general are investigating ...
Last year, a government commission called for the U.S. to adopt an AI-driven mass surveillance system far beyond that used in any other country in order to ensure American hegemony in artificial intelligence. Now, many ...
President Trump has revealed a plan to mobilize the US military to deliver mass vaccinations across the country, coupled with Operation Warp Speed, a “Manhattan project-style” race to produce a COVID-19 vaccine. (By: Raul Diego, ...
This article is part 2 of a multi-article series about the Shark Tank Initiative, to read part one click here Collaboration is Key The most productive approach to solve challenging and critical issues, according to ...
On Thursday, May 7, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee called Dr. Francis Collins – Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Dr. Gary Disbrow – Acting Director of Biomedical Advanced ...
A new contact tracing program was recently unveiled in Massachusetts in partnership with Partners in Health, an NGO with links to US regime change operations, big pharma and the Clinton Foundation. (By: Raul Diego, Mintpress ...
“If the Trump administration approaches vaccine development as it has Covid-19 prevention, testing and treatment, the world may be in for years of more extraordinary pain,” said Public Citizen. (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) Government ...
Multinational corporations are motivated by profit, which comes from disease, not people’s health. We frequently hear that COVID-19 is the worst pandemic since the influenza of 1918. It is forgotten that another pandemic known as “the third ...
The latest technological development appears to be an updated, “algorithmic phrenology,” repackaging a dangerous idea for the 21st century, all the more noteworthy because they are trying to sell it to law enforcement as an ...
“We are learning that even though children are by and large mildly affected when it comes to COVID-19 that there can be situations that they are more severely affected.” New York State issued a health ...
Last week the Sudanese Council of Ministers passed an amendment to the nation’s criminal code to make performing female genital mutilation a crime. Last week the Sudanese Council of Ministers passed an amendment to the ...
“Our government has treated us as if we are expendable.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) The largest union of registered nurses in the United States on Monday delivered a scathing rebuke to Congress and President ...
Discrepancies in different country’s official death counts relate to decisions as to whether to include deaths that are not directly caused by COVID-19 in the official figures. As of May 1st, COVID-19 has infected more ...
“Health care workers don’t need lip service. They need raises, health benefits, and paid sick leave.” (By: Julia Conley, Common Dreams) A new study on the crisis of underlying illness, poverty, and lack of insurance within ...
During an interview with Jonas Salk, the creator of the polio vaccine, CBS newsman Edward R. Morrow asked who owned the patent for the vaccine. “Well, the people, I would say,” said Salk. “There is no ...
Raising awareness about the risks of continuing “agribusiness as usual” has become more important than ever. A typical weekend for 26-year-old Juvel Ingal is perhaps atypical for most. On Saturdays, she spends her time at ...
“We don’t want people to panic. We don’t want people to be afraid of pets. There’s no evidence that pets are playing a role in spreading this disease to people.” Until this week, humans have ...
“It’s simply bizarre and unconscionable that the Trump administration would have United manage billions in relief to hospitals.” (By: Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Watchdog groups and healthcare advocates are raising serious concerns about conflicts of ...
Grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the US government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike. (By: John Whitehead, Mintpress News) I have never known any ...
“It’s going to uplift America. We need that moment right now in American history.” Since July 8, 2011, no US spacecraft has ferried Americans into space. When Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center ...
One of the first steps taken by governments worldwide to stop the spread of COVID-19 was the closure of schools, colleges and universities. This obviously has had a major impact on students and teachers due ...
There is a way out of our cruel, unjust food system. Mike Weaver is a trailblazer, boldly speaking out against the very industry that provided his livelihood. In 2016, he exposed the inhumane conditions and ...
As information about coronavirus emerged, the Chinese government and Chinese society began to organize an immense campaign against its spread. On March 31, 2020, a group of scientists from around the world—from Oxford University to ...
As the virus has small, local farms scrambling for income streams, community-supported agriculture (CSA) is one way to support them. The global outbreak of COVID-19, and the collective effort to slow down the spread of ...
Ecuador is near collapse under the strain of the coronavirus after the government of Lenin Moreno stripped state services nearly bare at the behest of the IMF. (By: Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News) If you are ...
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