Articles by Lee Fang
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Covid-19 Drugmakers Pressured Twitter to Censor Activists Pushing for Generic Vaccine
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
16 Jan 2023 – The social media pressure campaign was just a part of the pharmaceutical industry’s successful lobbying blitz to retain patents — and make obscene record profits.
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Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Continue to Seize on Russia’s War in Ukraine to Push Long-Term Interests
Lee Fang | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – The unfolding crisis is now a common–and effective–talking point for corporate interest groups seeking regulatory relief.
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Major Media Outlets That Use Invasive User Tracking Are Lobbying Against Regulation
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The “surveillance advertising” industry makes online news possible. News outlets entrusted with promoting transparency and privacy are also lobbying behind closed doors against proposals to regulate the mass collection of data.
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Starving Afghans Use Crypto to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions, Failing Banks, and the Taliban
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – NGOs looking to provide emergency aid to Afghanistan are turning to cryptocurrency.
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Humanitarian Exemptions to Crushing U.S. Sanctions Do Little to Prevent Collapse of Afghanistan’s Economy
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
28 Dec 2021 – More Afghan people may die from sanctions than from 20 years of war.
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Pharmaceutical Industry Dispatches Army of Lobbyists to Block Generic Covid-19 Vaccines
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
23 Apr 2021 – The pharmaceutical industry is pouring resources into the growing political fight over generic coronavirus vaccines. New lobbying disclosures show over 100 drug lobbyists working to defeat the IP waiver request at the WTO.
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Drugmakers Promise Investors They’ll Soon Hike Covid-19 Vaccine Prices
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Mar 2021
18 Mar 2021 – The U.S. pharmaceutical firms behind the approved coronavirus vaccines — Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, and Pfizer — have quietly touted plans to raise prices on coronavirus vaccines in the near future and to capitalize on the virus’s lasting presence. They pledged affordable vaccines — but only as long as there’s a “pandemic.”
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After Pork Giant Was Exposed for Cruel Killings, the FBI Pursued Its Critics
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
17 Feb 2021 – The agency, seeking information on an animal rights group, attempted to recruit a former truck driver as an informant, the truck driver says. The FBI asked a series of questions about DxE: How are they funded? Do they run drugs or sell guns to finance their animal welfare activism?
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Banks Pressure Health Care Firms to Raise Prices on Critical Drugs, Medical Supplies for Coronavirus
Lee Fang - The Intercept,
23 Mar 2020
19 Mar 2020 – Investment bankers have been candid about the opportunity to raise drug prices on critical drugs and medical supplies.
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(Português) Manual para Envenenar a Terra
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
17 Feb 2020
15 fev 2020 – Embora neonicotinoides, um dos inseticidas mais comuns do mundo, sejam proibidos na UE, uma sofisticada guerra de informações os manteve no mercado americano.
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TV Pundits Praising Suleimani Assassination Neglect to Disclose Ties to Arms Industry
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
13 Jan 2020
6 Jan 2020 – David Petraeus, Jack Keane, Van Hipp, John Negroponte, and Jeh Johnson all celebrate President Donald Trump’s decision to assassinate Qassim Suleimani.
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Emails Show Monsanto Orchestrated GOP Effort to Intimidate Cancer Researchers
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
9 Sep 2019
23 Aug 2019 – In 2015, the World Health Organization’s cancer research arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classified glyphosate, an active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, as a “probable carcinogen,” setting off a global debate about the world’s most popular weedkiller.
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GOP Lobbyists Help Brazil Recruit U.S. Companies to Exploit the Amazon
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
2 Sep 2019
23 Aug 2019 – The disaster is widely blamed on interests seeking to clear the world’s largest rainforest for cattle ranching, mining, and export-focused agribusiness. Documents reveal that those interests are being pushed in the U.S. by Republican lobbyists, friendly with President Donald Trump’s administration, who entered into talks with the Brazilian government to promote corporate investment in the Amazon.
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Lyft and Other Gig-Economy Giants Cash In with IPOs Before Labor Laws Catch Up with Them
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
8 Apr 2019
1 Apr 2019 – Gig-economy companies Lyft, Uber, and Postmates are racing to file IPOs this year, a mad dash replete with ever-increasing multibillion-dollar valuations. But is the rush to start trading on the public markets also a sprint to evade compliance with current labor law? Recent financial and lobbyist filings suggest that the gig-economy giants are hoping to get ahead of a wave of enforcement actions, new legislation, regulatory requirements, and lawsuits that could force these companies to finally and formally classify full-time workers as employees.
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American Executives: Election of Far-Right Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil Is a “Bullish Opportunity for Us”
Zaid Jilani and Lee Fang – The Intercept,
29 Oct 2018
25 Oct 2018 – Financial markets appear more than happy to overlook the authoritarian impulses and violent promises of Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, hoping he will deliver decisive, pro-business economic policies. In a giddy investor call today, Timothy Hassinger, chief executive officer of Lindsay Corp., the Nebraska-based farming equipment manufacturer, referred to the far-right politician as “considered strongly as pro-ag,” calling his likely election victory a “bullish opportunity for us.”
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Animal Rights Activists Face Multiple Felony Charges, Brought by Prosecutors with Ties to Smithfield Foods
Glenn Greenwald, Lee Fang and Leighton Akio Woodhouse – The Intercept,
11 Jun 2018
7 Jun 2018 – Six animal rights activists have been charged with multiple felony counts in two separate criminal cases. Why are they, who took nothing of commercial value, facing prison terms? Because the law is being abused to intimidate and silence them.
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Lee Fang – The Intercept,
14 Aug 2017
9 Aug 2017 – The Atlas Network has spent decades building up libertarian institutions across Latin America. Now the work is paying off. The work to undermine left-wing social movements and governments in South and Central America, and boost a business-friendly version of libertarianism instead.
→ read full articleBig Pharma Funds “Independent” Advocacy Groups Attacking Drug-Price Reduction Bill
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
17 Apr 2017
10 Apr 2017 – Advertisements from seemingly independent advocacy groups are swamping Beltway newspapers with dire warning that recent proposals to lower drug prices will lead to dangerous consequences. In the last week alone, the ads have appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Roll Call, The Hill, and Politico.
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Lee Fang – The Intercept,
19 Sep 2016
12 Sep 2016 – Pharmaceutical executives who recently made a major donation to an anti-marijuana legalization campaign claimed they were doing so out of concern for the safety of children — but their investor filings reveal that pot poses a direct threat to their plans to cash in on a synthetic cannabis product they have developed.
→ read full articleCable News Devotes 30 Seconds to Mass Arrests Protesting Political Corruption
Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani – The Intercept,
18 Apr 2016
The Democracy Spring, a protest to “end the corruption of big money in our politics” and “ensure free and fair elections,” on Monday [11 Apr] staged a nonviolent sit-in on Capitol Hill that resulted in over 400 arrests. CNN did not devote any coverage, MSNBC mentioned the protests for approximately 12 seconds, while Fox News mentioned the arrests and discussed the protests for about 17 seconds.
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Lee Fang – The Intercept,
11 Apr 2016
10 Apr 2016 – Opinion columns published in California newspapers over the last year in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership use language nearly identical to drafts written and distributed by public relations professionals who were retained by the Japanese government to build U.S. support for the controversial trade agreement.
→ read full articleDefense Industry Revenue Forecast Gushes over Global Turmoil
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
11 Jan 2016
9 Jan 2016 – According to a new report by the accounting firm Deloitte, “the resurgence of global security threats” promises a lucrative “rebound” in defense spending. The report alerts investors that “revenue growth” is “expected to take a positive turn” due to the terrorism and war in the Middle East and the tensions in Eastern Europe and the South China Sea.
→ read full articlePrivate Prison Exec Waves Off Criminal Justice Reform, Predicts More Profits
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
28 Dec 2015
22 Dec 2015 – A senior executive with the second-largest for-profit prison company in America assured investment bankers last summer that despite talk of drug policy and criminal justice reform, the country will continue to “attract crime,” generating new “correctional needs.”
→ read full articleDefense Contractors Laud Themselves for Steering Candidates toward Militarism
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
14 Dec 2015
11 Dec 2015 – A group formed this year by executives and lobbyists for the defense contracting industry is taking credit for “driving the national debate on foreign policy during the 2016 presidential election,” and in particular for getting Republican presidential candidates to call for escalating military action in Syria.
→ read full articleDefense Contractors Cite “Benefits” of Escalating Conflicts in the Middle East
Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani – The Intercept,
7 Dec 2015
4 Dec 2015 – Major defense contractors Raytheon, Oshkosh, and Lockheed Martin assured investors at a Credit Suisse conference in West Palm Beach this week that they stand to gain from the escalating conflicts in the Middle East.
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Lee Fang – The Intercept,
7 Dec 2015
In investor transcripts obtained by The Intercept, gunmakers and retailers describe mass shootings — and the resulting political dynamics — as lucrative.
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Lee Fang – The Intercept,
26 Oct 2015
“Another significant irritant” Ronald L. Perrilloux Jr., an executive with Lockheed Martin said, “is the application of human rights laws” toward U.S. allies in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates.
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Lee Fang – The Intercept,
3 Aug 2015
United States Institute of Peace chairman Stephen Hadley is a relentless hawk whose advocacy for greater military intervention often dovetails closely with the interests of Raytheon, a major defense contractor that pays him handsomely as a member of its board of directors.
→ read full articleEmails Reveal Dairy Lobbyist Crafted “Ag-Gag” Legislation Outlawing Pictures of Farms
Lee Fang – The Intercept,
1 Jun 2015
28 May 2015 – Across the country, legislatures are responding to whistleblowers and activists who have exposed inhumane and at times unsanitary practices at farms by passing laws that criminalize the taking of photos or videos at agricultural facilities… But the groundwork was laid by Dan Steenson, a registered lobbyist for the Idaho Dairymen’s Association, a trade group for the industry.
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Lee Fang – The Intercept,
23 Mar 2015
Not to worry, replies Lockheed CEO, a deal really isn’t likely to happen anytime soon — and even if it does, there’s plenty of war to keep profits high.
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Lee Fang – Republic Report,
23 Apr 2012
A cyber security bill moving swiftly through Congress would give government intelligence agencies broad powers to work with private companies to share information about Internet users.
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