In this Thursday, July 12, 2012, file photo, Centrum multivitamins are shown on the packaging line at the Pfizer plant in Montreal. Pfizer Inc.'s second-quarter net income jumped 25 percent as sharply lower costs for production, marketing and restructuring more than offset a plunge in revenue from cholesterol fighter Lipitor caused by generic competition. The Viagra maker said Tuesday, July 31, 2012, that net income was $3.25 billion, or 43 cents per share, up from $2.61 billion, or 33 cents per share, a year earlier. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes, File)
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Why Is UCLA Doing Pfizer’s Dirty Work in India?

A university develops a breakthrough prostate cancer drug—and then fights to keep it priced beyond reach.

by Alexander Zaitchik

New US Defense Agency’s Report on Global Nuclear Powers Omits Allies

As the Defense Intelligence Agency’s “Global Nuclear Landscape” report demonstrates, the U.S.’ highly selective concern regarding nuclear stockpiles is not about the danger they pose to the international community but rather the danger they pose to fulfilling U.S. geopolitical objectives.

New US Defense Agency’s Report on Global Nuclear Powers Omits Allies

WASHINGTON – A recent report created by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at the behest of the Senate Armed Services Committee sought to provide an overview of “foreign nuclear weapons-related capabilities.” However, that report, compiled using purely open-source information instead of DIA intel, focuses on only three of the world’s nine

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Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News and a contributor to Ben Swann's Truth in Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has also made radio and TV appearances on RT and Sputnik. She currently lives with her family in southern Chile.

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How Hindu Nationalism Intensified India’s Brutal Repression of Kashmir

From bans on eating beef, regular disruption of cell and internet service and renewed violence against civilians, India’s ruling Hindu Nationalist Party has ushered in a new level of repression in Kashmir.

How Hindu Nationalism Intensified India’s Brutal Repression of Kashmir

A sweeping social media gag; dozens of Kashmiri female students 

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Rezwan

Rezwan is the Global Voice Regional Editor for South Asia.

Ieshan Wani

Ieshan Wani

Ieshan Wani is a journalist from Kashmir, who has reported for various publications from Kashmir and New Delhi. He has been writing on human rights and the conflict in Kashmir.

Sahar Habib Ghazi

Sahar Habib Ghazi

Sahar Habib Ghazi is a Managing Editor at Global Voices. She previously worked as a journalist in Pakistan covering war, elections, earthquakes, floods, human smuggling, and kidney tourism.

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The Ideology That Unites Trump and the Authoritarians He Admires

For Trump and his majoritarian cronies, it’s about propping up “besieged majorities” in multiethnic countries.

The Ideology That Unites Trump and the Authoritarians He Admires

Washington and New Dehli are having a mutual lovefest these days. Donald Trump is popular in India — where 

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John Feffer

John Feffer

John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is the author of the dystopian novel Splinterlands (Dispatch Books/Haymarket, 2016) and a TomDispatch regular.

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After Arresting Kashmiri Photojournalist, India Defines ‘Duties’ of a Journalist

India’s counter-terrorism law enforcement agency has outlined what Kashmiri journalists should report on in order to qualify as a journalist following the arrest of 23-year-old Kashmiri photojournalist Kamran Yousuf.

After Arresting Kashmiri Photojournalist, India Defines ‘Duties’ of a Journalist

India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) — a counter-terrorism law enforcement agency — has outlined what Kashmiri journalists should report on in a 

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Vishal Manve

Vishal Manve

Vishal Manve is a journalist who focuses on business, global politics, and foreign policy. Based in India, he currently works for Agence France-Presse (AFP) as an economics correspondent. He is a regular contributor at Global Voices, Fair Observer and Free Press Kashmir and has volunteered with #RightsCon and International Journalism Festival. His writings have been translated into French, German, Greek, Arabic etc.

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New Footage Reveals the British Empire’s Hidden Workings in India and Iran

A newly released trove of films sheds new light on aspects of the British Empire’s imperial science, administration and colonial travel through India and Iran.

New Footage Reveals the British Empire’s Hidden Workings in India and Iran

In a basement office at the Royal Geographical Society in London’s South Kensington, grainy 16mm film footage flickers silently across the screen, one of over a hundred expeditionary and travel films digitized recently by the society and the British Film

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Jonathan Westaway

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Jonathan Westaway is a Research Fellow in History at the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom.

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‘Modern Air Is a Little Too Clean’: The Rise of Air Pollution Denial

Many of the same personalities that have operated within groups that have long denied climate change science, now are doing the same with air pollution.

‘Modern Air Is a Little Too Clean’: The Rise of Air Pollution Denial

Despite report after report linking air pollution to deterioration of the lungs, heart and brain, Professor Robert Phalen believes the air is “too clean” for children.

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