The Big Profits in Biowarfare Research - Corporate America's Deadliest Secret

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$44-billion on biological warfare research



http://www.counterpunch.org/ross06222007.html

June 22, 2007

The Big Profits in Biowarfare Research
Corporate America's Deadliest Secret
By SHERWOOD ROSS

A number of major pharmaceutical corporations and biotech firms are concealing the nature of the biological warfare research work they are doing for the U.S. government.

Since their funding comes from the National Institutes of Health, the recipients are obligated under NIH guidelines to make their activities public. Not disclosing their ops raises the suspicion they may be engaged in forbidden kinds of germ warfare research.

According to the Sunshine Project, a nonprofit arms control watchdog operating out of Austin, Texas, among corporations holding back information about their activities are:

Abbott Laboratories, BASF Plant Science, Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont Central Research and Development, Eli Lilly Corp., Embrex, GlaxoSmithKline, Hoffman-LaRoche, Merck & Co., Monsanto, Pfizer Inc., Schering-Plough Research Institute, and Syngenta Corp. of Switzerland.

In case you didn't know it, the White House since 9/11 has called for spending $44-billion on biological warfare research, a sum unprecedented in world history, and an obliging Congress has authorized it.

Thus, some of the deadliest pathogens known to humankind are being rekindled in hundreds of labs in pharmaceutical houses, university biology departments, and on military bases.

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1. Hmm.

If the companies are getting grants from the NIH, they'd have to report to the NIH annually, and I suppose those reports could be available to the public via the FOIA.

That said, private companies are still entitled to confidentiality outside the specifc projects covered by the grants. Furthermore, I have to assume that the vast majority of that $44 billion is for things like vaccines, and detection of biological warfare agents. This story's setting off my Fearmongering Alarm.

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2. We need to stop being required to pay taxes or prevented from purchasing

medicines elsewhere.

If individual health practitioners can refuse service based on conscience, we must be able to refuse taxes for conscience.

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3. Bayer Corporation is a Very Bad ...

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