Article 3WBS5 Former Obama trade official teams up with Trump to create highly profitable TB epidemics in poor countries

Former Obama trade official teams up with Trump to create highly profitable TB epidemics in poor countries

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Cory Doctorow
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When Josh Black quit his job as Obama's director for U.N. and Multilateral Affairs after the 2016 election (citing "growing disillusionment"), he found a sweet job as Associate Vice President for International Advocacy at Phrma, the global lobbying group for the pharmaceutical industry, which meant that he still got to work at the UN, but now he'd be advocating for giant, rapacious corporations that hold peoples' lives hostage to their profits! (speaking as a former NGO observer at the World Intellectual Property Organization from the era of the Access to Medicines treaty, Phrma are effectively public health war criminals). (more")

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