Phil Butler

Our world is burning down around us, but we’re so accustomed to smoke and flames we only feel the heat warming us. Every day for a decade now I’ve researched and analyzed the media, geopolitics and public relations, and I’ve decided we cannot save Earth. For a moment there was hope. The defiant strength of Russia’s...

USAID has just awarded $160 million to the United States Pharmacopeia (USP for a cooperative agreement to regulate the pharmaceutical landscape in Africa. U.S. taxpayers are now funding a U.S. State Department approved plan developed so our government can help big pharma pimps. Here’s a look inside USP and this latest USAID plan...

I was just reading another story about how Vladimir Putin will take over the world at Foreign Policy Magazine. It was a pretty good yarn, as Russophobic propaganda goes. But, just when the drama got really big. BAM, the FP paywall came up. “Shucks,” I thought. What if I have been wrong all along about Putin and Russia? I knew I had to find out...