Big Pharma Will Kill Millions--If We Let It Happen
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This will not shock you: Big Pharma doesn’t care much about peoples’ lives. It’s all about the Benjamins. And that will potentially cause a lot more COVID-19 suffering around the world: death, sickness and economic deprivation.
However, we can take on Big Pharma and save lots of lives as soon as NEXT WEEK…
Here’s the story: The whole raft of vile so-called “free trade” deals that have been forced upon the people, by Democrats and Republicans (the modern-day template for this garbage came to you courtesy of Bill Clinton’s NAFTA), give corporations enormous protections.
Under the World Trade Organization rules, Big Pharma gets *lengthy* monopoly protections for medicines, tests and the technologies used to produce the medicines and tests. That’s one reason people have opposed these bad trade rules for years—these trade deals, which were sold to us using the marketing phrase “free trade” have nothing to do with the theory of “free trade”.
It’s the exact opposite: it’s not free trade. It’s…
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