Not everyone has yet realized that Western pharmaceutical corporations and the healthcare systems they create are being controlled, manipulated and exploited, representing not only an extreme degree of corruption, but also threatening the health of millions of people instead of protecting it.
They threaten not only the West, depriving it of the opportunity to have a healthy and prosperous population, but have already reached Eurasia, South America, Africa, etc.
What we have
Pharmaceutical corporations, or Big Pharma as they are also called, have been embroiled in one scandal after another, from falsifying scientific research and product efficacy studies to selling unsafe children's drugs.
Some of the largest Western pharmaceutical corporations on the planet have become embroiled in multi-billion dollar international corruption schemes.
The US Department of Justice, in a statement titled "DOJ Announces Largest Healthcare Fraud Agreement," admits:
Pfizer is involved in similar criminal cases around the planet, and the Washington Post, in its article “Pfizer Agrees to Pay $ 60 Million to Settle Foreign Corruption Case,” writes:
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The countries mentioned in the article include Bulgaria, Croatia, Kazakhstan and Russia.
British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has also been caught in a major corruption scheme. The New York Times, in its article "The Pharmaceutical Giant Will Pay for Corruption in China," states:
The corruption of GSK in China was not the only case for the company. For years, she has dealt with rampant and dangerous corruption across continents.
The London Guardian, in its article "GlaxoSmithKline Paid a $ 3 Billion Fine for Bribing Physicians to Increase Drug Sales", reports that:
In early 2014, the London Telegraph reported in an article "GlaxoSmithKline bribed doctors to market its drugs in Europe, says a former employee":
The Pfizer and GSK cases tell us that massive corruption is not limited to a single incident or even one pharmaceutical corporation, but is the norm for the entire western Big-pharma.
The pharmaceutical giants in many ways act as white-coat drug dealers armed with massive lobbying resources, public relations and marketing departments to create the illusion of legitimacy where, as the echoes of major scandals show, no legitimacy really exists.
But no matter how immoral the bribery of doctors and stuffing children with unsafe drugs may seem, Big-pharma is much worse.
Phantom hope for the dying
Headline-fueled scandals by major pharmaceutical companies are happening so often and on such a scale that the population seems to be becoming increasingly less sensitive to them. But the fact is, these very corporations that, for whatever reason, research, develop, manufacture, and distribute essential drugs are run by criminals who have driven health care into crisis and enjoy their impunity.
But there are other, much worse schemes that pharmaceutical giants are working on, which personify the true depravity not only of the pharmaceutical industry itself, but also of the Western medical school in general, the Western healthcare system and, of course, Western media, which all play a role in perpetuating or smoothing out well-known scandals as well as well-hidden scandals.
Gene therapy has changed the very paradigm of healthcare. Instead of using pharmaceutical drugs to treat a disease, gene therapy alters the patient's DNA itself and permanently heals the patient from the very source of the disease or condition the patient is suffering from.
For example, the fatal cancer leukemia can be cured by adjusting the DNA of the cells of the human immune system. The newly programmed cells can detect and destroy leukemia and bring the patient into permanent remission. Initial studies were conducted on patients who were not helped by other treatments and who would have simply died if gene therapy had not worked.
What's more surprising about gene therapy is that it is done once and continues throughout the patient's life. This comes from the reprogrammed cells copying and dividing themselves, they also copy the new DNA code incorporated in them to detect, attack and eliminate leukemia.
For a patient suffering from a terminal illness, a single injection that cures her forever is a miracle of modern medicine.
For the profit-driven pharmaceutical industry, the idea of finally curing a disease with a single injection that is cheaper than conventional and less effective treatments is a nightmare.
This is why gene therapy, developed by a University of Pennsylvania charity medical group led by Dr. Karl June that literally cured leukemia, was bought out by Norvartis and cost prohibitively expensive to ensure that this medical breakthrough remains unrealistic and unaffordable. for most patients.
Denying the cure, guaranteeing profit
This impressive breakthrough, driven by philanthropic research and development, was reported in a 2012 New York Times article entitled “A Girl's Last Hope - Altered Immune Cells That Beat Leukemia,” says:
However, by July 2017, the Washington Post, in its article "The First Gene Therapy, 'A Real Life-Giving Pill,' On the Cusp of FDA Approval," noted that Novartis had bought out gene therapy and reported that:
This fashion of the pharmaceutical giants to buy technology and raise its price has been reflected in gene therapy of all kinds. The pharmaceutical giants have grabbed hold of one government or charity project after another, raising prices to ensure they stay out of the reach of dying and desperate patients, while other products that are far more profitable to them remain the only hope of life for the vast majority of people.
This is the personification of all Western morality at the moment.
The West has an incredible capacity to innovate and improve life on our planet, but it is so surrounded by corrupt, deep-rooted and clearly invincible monopolies that it has no chance.
Newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post are complicit in reporting the true costs of these outstanding technologies, then presenting the criminal mark-up as reasonable and "common" to unsuspecting readers.
Universities, academics, and healthcare professionals who are likely to act sincerely or under duress, or have been bought, which we know is integral to the operations of large pharmaceutical companies, also prevent the alarm from ringing for more than just the danger that pharmaceutical giants represent for today's healthcare, but also that they deny the people who most need a cure.
For all countries in the world, a healthy population is the key to economic, political and military success. The global expansion of such a corrupt and dangerous industry as Big-pharma should probably be a key issue in any country's national defense strategy.
Gunnar Ulson, geopolitics expert and writer from New York, exclusively for the online magazine New Eastern Outlook.
