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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Richard Freeman |Michael Billington |Dennis Small |Carl Osgood
March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned March 28, after he was confronted with a resign or be fired ultimatum. Marks is one of the key officials who helped push through Operation Warp Speed, the program that helped develop the vaccine to fight COVID-19, produced by Pfizer and Biontech, during the first Trump administration.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Richard Freeman |Michael Billington |Dennis Small |Carl Osgood
March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced 10,000 firings at the Department of HSS, particularly targeting development of vaccines for infectious diseases, and fundamental scientific research. The cuts include 2,400 people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 1,200 people at the National Institutes of Health, which is a primary funder of disease research across the United States.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Dennis Speed |Jason Ross |Carl Osgood |David Shavin
March 27, 2025 (EIRNS)—Some time soon, perhaps even by the time you read this, British intelligence infiltrators in the Trump Administration may have forced the resignation of one of the senior officials of the Presidency. This is to be accomplished in the same way that Gen. Michael Flynn was dismissed as Trump’s National Security Advisor, 22 days into the first Trump Administration.
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4 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Dennis Small |Jason Ross |Carl Osgood |David Shavin
March 26, 2025 (EIRNS)—There is a growing drumbeat around Washington urging the Trump administration to use the recent U.S. air strikes against the Houthis in Yemen as a prelude and practice run for delivering a knock-out punch to Iran next.
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4 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Dennis Small |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross |David Shavin
March 26, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Financial Times reported rather gleefully that “’Signalgate’ will send shockwaves through the US security apparatus and foreign allies.” It’s not just “the sheer amateurism of the Trump White House,” they wrote. The deeper issue is that “the breach will raise disquiet across the US security and military apparatus about the risks of such behavior to personnel.
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4 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Carl Osgood |Dennis Small |Jason Ross |David Shavin
March 26, 2025 (EIRNS)— The Atlantic published the entire text of the Signal message thread among top U.S. national security officials today, following earlier claims made by some of those officials, and President Trump himself, that no classified information was discussed in that thread. The thread, for reasons still not fully explained, included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Paul Gallagher |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross |David Shavin
March 25, 2025 (EIRNS)—With legislation advancing in both Houses of Congress to authorize cryptocurrency access to Federal Reserve payment systems and the Treasury market, a new “stablecoin” (supposed to have a stable equivalency to one U.S. dollar) has been announced by World Liberty Financial.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Carl Osgood |David Shavin |Steven Carr |Jason Ross
March 25, 2025 (EIRNS)—Yesterday the Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement reporting that the Kiev regime had launched a drone attack aimed at the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) in Krasnodar region. Russian air defenses shot down the drone 7 km away from the pumping station and no damage was done. The Kiev regime had earlier attacked the pumping station on Feb.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Steven Carr |David Shavin |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross
March 25, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary film No Other Land, Hamdan Ballal, survived a beating by West Bank Israeli settlers on the evening of March 24 only to be handcuffed, blindfolded, and arrested by Israeli security forces, according to multiple news reports. According to the Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham the settlers also attempted to lynch Ballal.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Steven Carr |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross |David Shavin
March 25, 2025 (EIRNS)—At least three students who have been active in campus protests against the genocide in Gaza are now suing members of the Trump administration to stop their deportations. The March 8 arrest of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil has garnered international press coverage with a series of ongoing legal actions. On March 24 another Columbia University student Yunseo Chung filed a lawsuit to stop her own deportation.
