I don’t believe anything anymore. If CNN or Fox or MSNBC told me that the sun was going to rise in the East I would need to check. And US government agencies are no better. The State Department or the CIA or the FBI? Please.

The latest agency to demonstrate the full corporate takeover of our government is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with their admission of the safety of Ivermectin. This was prompted in part by government lawyers in a court hearing who confessed that for two years the FDA has been lying about both Ivermectin and the fact that doctors were not authorized to prescribe it in the treatment of Covid.

I know history isn’t our strong point but if you consult the wayback machine you might recall that the the FDA and every liberal outlet told Americans that Ivermectin was horse medicine. After all, the general assumption that Ivermectin is a horse dewormer didn’t come from nowhere. It was a narrative cultivated in us by the FDA and the corporate media. Here is the tweet the agency sent out exactly two years ago to persuade us that only dangerous nut-jobs (ie. Trump supporters) talk about Ivermectin:

The corporate media worked overtime to promote exactly the same messaging: that Ivermectin was only good for horses and cows. The media echoed the FDA in implying very strongly that the drug’s use in humans was not safe. There was not a late-night show host who did not mock Ivermectin as a horse drug and ridicule its supporters, even leading doctors.

As a corollary the Biden Administration and liberal corporate media proclaimed the importance of vaccines and mass vaccination, and emphasized the safety and non-transmission of the new, experimental mRNA vaccines produced under emergency authorization by Pfizer, a company for which fraud is not unknown. Before assuming office, President-elect Biden promised the electorate he would make mass vaccination against COVID-19 central to his agenda. Not only should Americans get vaccinated to safeguard their own lives, the president declared, but also as good citizens to protect each other. Those who declined vaccination were not only foolish, but selfish.

Then there was the timing of the miracle vaccine’s release. I mean knowing what we know about how Big Pharma manipulates its trials, are we really to believe that Pfizer couldn’t have manipulated its own internal timeline, such that the data to evaluate its vaccines was only available after the 2020 election? 

“Pfizer CEO: Our vaccine timing had nothing to do with politics” [CNN]. From November 9, 2020. 

Tell us another one.

Now let’s look at the politics of these vital public health decisions. Remember, the FDA’s drug division receives three-quarters of its funding from the pharmaceutical industry. This unmentioned reality should be a huge conflict of interest, but there are enormous political and economic pressures to keep Big Pharma happy. The reality is that Ivermectin and other drugs that might have been repurposed for Covid posed an enormous threat in principle to the FDA and its funders in Big Pharma–completely aside from the practical question of whether those drugs actually work against Covid.

The new, experimental mRNA vaccines could only be rushed out for use in humans on the basis of an emergency authorisation so long as no other drug could be shown to be an effective treatment for Covid.

Ivermectin has been off-patent for years. No one can make any serious money from it, and certainly not giant pharmaceuticals based in the United States. Any Chinese or Indian factory can produce the tablets for a few cents.

So in short, Big Pharma, which was poised to become fabulously enriched by its new vaccines, had every financial incentive imaginable to make sure there were no rivals in the stakes for a Covid miracle cure. The focus had to be entirely and exclusively on the vaccines.

“BioNTech, Pfizer stocks soar after COVID-19 vaccine candidate achieves ‘success’ in first analysis” [MarketWatch] and “Stock futures surge, with Dow futures up 1100 points, after Pfizer vaccine news” [MarketWatch].

Cha-ching! as the cool kids say.

The FDA, like all of the rest of US regulatory agencies has been captured by the industries they’re tasked with regulating. In this case big Pharma ownes the FDA and the doctors and scientists who work there are not stupid. They know for their careers to advance they have to make Big-Pharma happy.

The corporate media had exactly the same priorities. Why is that?

Perhaps it’s because companies like Pfizer subsidize the corporate media as heavily as they do the FDA.

We discussed this before but the pharmaceutical corporations and the corporate media are just separate wings of the same corporate empire headquartered on Wall Street. What’s good for Big Pharma is good for the military/industrial/complex is good for Big-Oil is good for corporate agriculture is good for corporate media, etc.

What is important for all of them is the maintenance of a political and economic climate that allows for corporate profiteering. What is good for one of them is good for all.

So Ivermectin had to be lied about by the lying liars.

It’s that simple.

Update: Just to make clear–I am not a Trump supporter. But I am extremely interested in the political, economic and social conditions that make Trumpism possible in the United States.

Lying about Ivermectin and demonizing those who would utilize it while screeching at the top of their lungs to “trust the science” it is not the winning issue that liberals imagine. Meanwhile, doubling down on the attacks against Trump and his supporters appears to supremely counterproductive. Of course the managers of the American empire are experts at keeping liberals generally unaware of the cruelty and tyranny of the empire overseas, with their political attention being directed toward Trump’s mugshot with the narrative that the 45th president is literally the greatest threat facing America today. The whole Russia-gate psy-op provides copious evidence of this phenomenon. Trump for liberals is like waving a red cape at a bull.