Not Your Grandfather’s Stagflation
We are going to get a globe-shaking economic conflagration erupting from the void that was the Persian Gulf commodity fountain. That includes between 20% and 50% of all the basic commodities that drive global GDP.
What the IHRP Report Means for America, WHO, and the Future of Global Health
The choice ahead is straightforward. Governments can treat the pandemic as an anomaly and return to familiar habits—or they can use the hard lessons of Covid-19 to demand institutions that are narrower, more transparent, and genuinely accountable.
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The Behemoth of Global Corruption Is an Extension of Ourselves
Once we cut the behemoth down to human size, we can see that nothing is new, and defeating it is not impossible. It will take perseverance, hope, and a reckoning with ourselves.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Remains “Puzzled” by Medical Freedom
While Tuesday’s opinion was a victory for free speech and medical freedom, Justice Jackson’s opinion is not merely the ramblings of a radical ideologue. She is the mouthpiece for a powerful cohort that seeks to strip Americans of their autonomy.
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Crunch Time for the WHO
The polarised debate on the World Health Organization (WHO) has been based more on mud-slinging and all-or-nothing dogma than scientific evidence and empirical data. However, with trust plummeting in public health, change is needed.
UK College Student Covid Tuition Settlement Far Exceeds That of US
The UK students had something we don’t: a law that explicitly says students are consumers entitled to fair value. Without that, US students are trying to win a game with very different rules—rules that strongly favor colleges and universities.
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Suicide Should Not Be a Government Service
The core and constant concept: at the request of an eligible individual, the government administers death either by euthanasia through a lethal injection delivered by a clinician or by assisted suicide through self-administered medication that is facilitated by a clinician.
Let’s Save Our Doctors’ Time for Sick People
What would a smarter approach look like? Our health systems need to create clear, evidence-based thresholds for when to recommend screening or primary prevention drugs — thresholds based on absolute risk, life expectancy, and patient values.
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The Digital Leviathan
Some books explain events, and others explain the world in which events become possible. Jacob Siegel’s The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control firmly to the second category. Siegel watched it up close.
The Right to Health Sovereignty
An International Health Organization built on sovereignty, subsidiarity, and ethics would integrate universal moral principles (beneficence, non-maleficence, confidentiality, informed consent) and consequently a set of public health principles derived from these including an architecture of accountability and decentralization.
The Last Lesson My Mother Taught Me
In the end, we cannot stop the circle of life. But we can decide how we meet its final turn. With fear or with clarity. With chaos or with dignity. With denial or with truth. My mother chose dignity.
How Dissent Was Silenced
This excerpt from Chapter 16 of my new book 3/11 Viral Takeover lays bare how the Covid response became the pretext for normalizing government-directed censorship, throttling legitimate scientific debate, and entrenching state power over public discourse.