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‘Profiting off crime on every level’ The exploitation of incarcerated people and their families generates $80B for private corporations

Crime pays, especially if you’re a for-profit contractor providing services at correctional institutions. From medical and mental health care to pharmaceutical services to transportation to food services and communications services, these services cost the incarcerated a “pretty penny.” Imagine working for $1.25 an hour or receiving only $20 a month for full-time work. Adding insult to injury are the...

How To Prevent, Treat And Defeat COVID-19 Without Being Vaccinated

“… There are 14 therapies that are in the world today that we can use to fight against the COVID virus.” —Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, “The Criterion”—July 4, 2020 Dear Reader: In reviewing “The Criterion,” we must remember that the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan leveled not one, but two counts of genocidal acts against the corporate-controlled U.S. Government. The first was...

New York Repeals COVID Vaccine Mandate For Healthcare Workers But Legal Fight Not Over

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.The Defender New York will officially repeal its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers starting Oct. 4. The mandate, which led to thousands of workers being fired or quitting, will be lifted after a lawsuit sponsored by Children’s Health Defense challenged its legality. However, the state may still seek sanctions against workers for alleged past violations. This article...

‘Lens of Ansar’: Celebrating the life of a brother, friend, servant Ansar El Muhammad

Family and friends from all walks of life gathered for the Janazah (funeral) service for Brother Ansar El Muhammad at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance on August 30, 2023. Among the attendees were the former mayor of Denver, the Honorable Wellington Webb and his wife, Wilma. Mama Cleo, the founder, artistic director, and choreographer of the 50-year-old Denver-based artistic institution,...

Trial begins for three Tacoma officers charged in death of Manny Ellis

TACOMA, Wash.—Jury selection started Sept. 18 in the trial of three Tacoma police officers charged in the death of Manuel “Manny” Ellis, a 33-year-old Black man who was tackled, punched, shocked with a stun gun and held face down on a sidewalk on March 3, 2020, two months before George Floyd met a similar fate. Officers Christopher Burbank and Matthew...

New law returns Native American remains for reburial in Illinois

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—For centuries, Europeans carving up the prairie to suit their own idea of settlement dug up the graves of Native Americans as they conquered lands and pushed tribes to the West. Now, Native Americans whose ancestors’ remains ended up held for study in sterile, nondescript boxes on shelves in educational facilities or displayed in cultural locales hope a new...

16 states underfunded historically Black land-grant universities, Biden administration says

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Historically Black land-grant universities in Tennessee and 15 other states have missed out on $12.6 billion in funding over the last three decades, according to the Biden administration. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack sent letters to the governors of each state asking them to increase funding, news outlets reported. The letter said the...

Organic community garden aims to bring eating to live to South Side

CHICAGO—The Salaam Community Wellness Center, a holistic healing space, recently held its grand opening and ribbon cutting of their latest collaboration, “Eat to Live Urban Farm, Paradise Garden: Food Is Medicine.” Dr. Constance Shabazz, a noted healthcare professional, serves as CEO and co-founder of the Salaam Community Wellness Center. “When we started the Salaam Community Wellness Center, one of our...

The War Against Ivermectin: A Tale of Two Drugs

Ivermectin first exploded onto the scene as a potential therapeutic for COVID after researchers at Monash University in Australia published in April of 2020 that SARS-CoV-2 essentially disappeared from cell culture within 48 hours of being exposed to Ivermectin. Pulmonary specialist and critical care physician Dr. Pierre Kory, in his December 2022 series titled “The Timeline of Major Battles...

Appeals Court Rules FDA ‘Exceeded Its Authority’ by Advising Public Against Use of Ivermectin to Treat COVID

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. The Defender The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 1 ruled the U.S. Food and Drug Administration exceeded its authority under federal law when it advised the public against using ivermectin. This article was originally published by The Defender—Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website A federal appeals court last week overturned the dismissal of a...