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Cancer treatment in America runs on a simple, brutal economic model: the sicker we stay, the more money gets made. Chemotherapy drugs approved by the FDA in 2012 were priced at over $100,000 per patient per year—eleven out of twelve of them. Some immunotherapy treatments run $15,000 per dose. The cancer industry generates hundreds of…Continue reading They Buried it for COVID. Now They’re Doing It for Cancer
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For decades, as if there are no consequences beyond potential death or dismemberment on the battlefield, our service members are asked to put their bodies on the line. What they aren’t told—what the government has known and consistently failed to disclose—is that the enemy isn’t always on the other side of the battlefield. Sometimes the…Continue reading Serve, Suffer, Submit Your DNA: How America Turned Its Veterans Into a Lifetime Experiment
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We are being watched. Most of us know it on some level, the way we sense a room has cameras before we spot them. What we tend to underestimate—badly—is just how many systems are running simultaneously, how much they already know, and how little any of it required our permission. A thread posted to X…Continue reading No Warrant Required: Eyes Everywhere in Surveillance America
By Jefferey Jaxen As the country mostly shuts down during the coronavirus crisis, the U.S. Department of Labor’s latest jobless numbers are unsurprisingly bad. Breathless headlines about unemployment zipped across news feeds Thursday, showing 6.6 million Americans filed new claims. In the week ending March 21, 3.28 million claims were filed, bringing the two-week total…Continue reading Unemployment: The Other Health Crisis
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By Jefferey Jaxen The idea of a country-wide shutdown order from the Trump administration appears to be a nonstarter. As reported last week, states have moved individually to enact various levels of ‘stay at home’ orders. At the time of this writing [Saturday, 3/28/20, 5pm EST], 24 states, or over half of the U.S. population,…Continue reading COVID 1984: Is Big Brother Here To Stay?
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*UPDATE 3/23: Senate expected to vote on third coronavirus response bill *UPDATE 3/23: Michigan orders stay-at-home order to residents *UPDATE 3/22: Delaware and Louisiana have both ordered statewide stay-at-home orders By Jefferey Jaxen Sunday, March 22, 2020’s editorial will forgo normal reporting and instead be a situation report. The coronavirus outbreak has dominated another week of…Continue reading Coronavirus Situation Report: America Braces For A New Week Of Uncharted Waters
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Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom, in a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, said experts were projecting that roughly 56 per cent of Californians, or about 25.5 million people, were expected to contract the coronavirus over the next eight weeks. Newsom’s claim comes in contrast to worldwide coronavirus cases at just over 256K. Shorty after,…Continue reading CA Gov. Newsom Issues State-Wide Stay-At-Home-Order
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By Jefferey Jaxen Another week, another increase in reported cases of coronavirus in the United States. The inadequacy of early measures and responses by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—combined with their continued, testing rollout failure—can be seen as a major contributor to coronavirus case expansion, beyond whatever virulence the coronavirus inherently…Continue reading All Eyes on U.S. Government Response to Coronavirus
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Recently, the media outlet Collective Evolution sat down for an exclusive interview with The HighWire host Del Bigtree to talk about the Informed Consent Action Network’s latest and biggest legal action to date against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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