Former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg Named In Wide-Ranging Lawsuit Over Drug Approval

Former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg Named In Wide-Ranging Lawsuit Over Drug Approval
Former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg And Hedge Fund Husband Named In Lawsuit Over Levaquin. A lawsuit naming former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg as a defendant has been filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging that she pushed through approval of antibiotic Levaquin. The suit also names her husband, Peter Brown, who at the time of Hamburg’s tenure ran a hedge fund that was heavily invested in Johnson & Johnson, the manufacturer of Levaquin.… Read the rest

RIP, Berta Caceres -What Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want You to Know

RIP, Berta Caceres -What  Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want You to Know
If environmentalists like Caceres are ever going to win, it will be in the face of these huge, almost unseeable and unknowable economic forces. Until we all recognize them--and their political handmaidens--for what they are, hugely destructive monstrous forces that threaten to destroy our only planet for the sake of a few dollars--they will continue to roll over us all until there is nothing left.