“Free trade” turned the world into one big global sweatshop. In the U.S. alone, billionaires transferred $47 trillion to themselves from working people by striking down laws that would have put limits on the exploitation of human labor and the plundering of natural resources. 

The coup de grâce of the billionaire’s “free trade” con was the consolidation of the power of multinational corporations in the World Trade Organization and the declaration that WTO “rules” were superior to democratically enacted national laws and regulations.

They have yet to convince every country to exchange sovereignty for “free trade,” but those that submitted to WTO supremacy have seen democratically enacted laws picked off one by one.

Take the United States. More than a third of WTO challenges have targeted U.S. laws and regulations, which have been found to violate its rules 90 percent of the time.

Canada and Mexico used the WTO to get the United States to take country-of-origin labels off meat. The WTO classified them as “illegal trade barriers” and authorized $1 billion in sanctions. 

When the US tried to protect sea turtles under the Endangered Species Act, Thailand, Pakistan, Malaysia and India challenged the US under the WTO, claiming its ban on shrimping practices that endangered the turtles was an unfair trade barrier. The WTO ruled against the US, requiring the US to drop its enforcement of the Endangered Species Act or pay compensation to the other nations M for lost trade, estimated to be between $200-500 million annually.

The United States was also forced by a WTO complaint brought by Venezuela and Brazil to weaken regulations under the Clean Air Act.

Globally, the WTO was used as a colonial tool to prevent newer independent democracies from developing the regulatory frameworks that the U.S. and the European Union had created to reign in corporate power.

As Vandana Shiva points out, Monsanto wrote the intellectual property rules of the WTO that allow corporations to patent seeds and force farmers to pay licenses for their use. Cargill wrote the rules on WTO agreement on agriculture that allows corporations to dump cheap subsidized grain from the U.S. into the markets of poorer countries at below the cost of production, making it impossible for local farmers to compete and driving them off their land. The junk food industry, companies like Nestlé, Pepsis and Coca-cola, wrote the WTO rules on food safety that allow them to push their obesogens on people around the world. 

The Organic Consumers Association was founded just as the anti-corporate-globalization movement was getting organized and we spent the turn of the millennium on the barricades, protesting the World Trade Organization at the Battle of Seattle and the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund at A16. A decade later, the movement was reinvigorated by Occupy Wall Street at the same time that our Millions Against Monsanto campaign was hitting its stride and that spawned Occupy Monsanto.

When COVID-19 hit, we saw how the World Trade Organization’s power to strike down laws corporations don’t like is complemented by the World Health Organization’s power to force the adoption of policies that benefit them.

The corporations’ intent to wield the WTO and WHO together as a double bludgeon is evident in every WHO document. Into each, the WHO incorporates WTO rules on intellectual property.

The WHO’s rabid insistence that Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) are more important than poor countries’ access to medicines makes it crystal clear that the WHO’s very purpose is to sell patented pharmaceuticals. Groups like Public Citizen that are constantly bemoaning this, don’t realize that, as far as the pharmaceutical companies are concerned, forcing “free trade” on global health isn’t a flaw of the WHO, it’s a feature!

This is especially true for the very most profitable pharmaceuticals, the ones prescribed for everyone from birth, vaccines.

As Ronnie Cummins and Dr. Joseph Mercola explain in The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports and the New Normal, by establishing global governance over pandemics, the globalists hope not only to subvert national sovereignty, but to take control of each person’s body and movement through testing, tracking and surveillance, and effectively end individual sovereignty by denying us our right to choose whether to submit to their regimes.

COVID-19 caused us to return to our roots and the age-old call for democracy of the people, by the people and for the people.

We’re inspired by the leadership of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s efforts to assist people asserting the right to local self-government, and Local Futures, which raise awareness about the power of “going local” as a key strategy for restoring ecological, social and spiritual wellbeing.

CELDF and Local Futures understand that democracy only really works at a local level. 

At the state, national and especially international level, multinational corporations have a terribly unfair advantage. 

At the local level corporations have to contend with hundreds of thousands of decision makers with the power to restrict their actions in thousands of different ways. 

As power is concentrated at the state, national and international level, corporations can easily buy-off and manipulate the fewer and fewer people making decisions. More often than not, these people were hand-picked by them anyway!

Too many earnest advocacy groups fall into the trap of believing in the theoretical possibility that international institutions might be bent or shaped by the will of the people to somehow subvert the intent of the corporations that created and control them.

This is wishful thinking at its worst.

OCA has been there. We hoped to spread the good news that regenerative organic agriculture, in addition to feeding the world healthy, clean, nutrient-dense food, sequesters carbon through photosynthesis and the organisms that thrive in living soil (when it isn’t soaked in pesticides and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers). We took our message to the U.N. climate conferences for many years until it became obvious that the corporations had rigged that process.

It’s not that international institutions never do anything good. The trouble is, we’re at the corporations’ mercy as to whether or not they comply.

Take the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

In 2015, it acknowledged the carcinogenicity of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. This made lawsuits on behalf of Roundup exposed cancer victims possible and resulted in billion-dollar jury awards. 

Glyphosate is still legal in the U.S., but Bayer said that, to limit liability, it would no longer sell it to consumers as of 2023 (sales to farmers and pesticide professionals would continue). 

Instead of taking its flagship Roundup herbicide off the shelves, Bayer is offering glyphosate-free versions, but it is still selling the old glyphosate-based formulation, too!

As Beyond Pesticides writes in letters to Home Depot and Lowe’s, “replacement versions of Roundup™ products are also toxic. Roundup® Dual Action, for example, contains the following active ingredients: triethylamine salt of triclopyr, fluazipop-P-butyl, diquat dibromide, and ammonium salt of imazapic—ingredients that are reproductive and developmental toxicants, sensitizers, and toxic to aquatic and other organisms.”

Triclopyr is especially concerning. Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides offers this consumer warning: 

“In laboratory tests, triclopyr caused an increase in the incidence of breast cancer as well as an increase in a type of genetic damage called dominant lethal mutations. Triclopyr also is damaging to kidneys and has caused a variety of reproductive problems.”

Diquat dibromide is implicated in Parkinson’s disease and mass deaths of bald eagles.

To see glyphosate replaced with similarly toxic pesticides is incredibly disappointing, but the worst part of this story is that glyphosate-based herbicides continue to be sold to consumers, too!

At Roundup.com, Bayer continues to sell its glyphosate-based herbicide, even though everyone knows it causes cancer.

IARC made headlines again recently when it classified aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic.” 

The WHO conceded that non-sugar sweeteners in “diet” sodas don’t help with weight control. In fact, they cause weight gain and obesity.

U.S. Right to Know, which has been tracking the health risks of aspartame for several years, celebrated the news, but pointed out that another section of the WHO, the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) went in the opposite direction when they “reaffirmed the enormous daily ‘acceptable’ intake of 40 mg/kg of body weight.” JECFA had been taken over by “experts” with ties to Coca-Cola.

Just like IARC’s cancer assessment for glyphosate didn’t lead to banning Roundup, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wasn’t swayed by IARC’s aspartame exposé.

The moral of these stories is that, similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the World Health Organization acts for health or the environment, but its good decisions get ignored while its bad ones guide policy.

The World Trade Organization and the World Health Organization are each attempts by the billionaire class to subvert national sovereignty and gain unfettered control over the people and resources of the world.

The powers that the World Health Organization wields over pandemics is especially troubling.

This became evident right after the WHO’s International Health Regulations were adopted, when, in the midst of the 2006 bird flu outbreaks, the WHO ended up in a stand-off with Indonesia over who owned the viruses found within its borders. 

Indonesia’s health minister asserted her country’s sovereignty and refused to share its virus samples with the World Health Organization without a promise from the pharmaceutical companies that they would share the vaccines and antivirals they’d create from them in return. She rallied most of the Global South to join with Indonesia to boycott the WHO in solidarity.

Bill Gates personally crushed her movement by leading her to believe that his foundation would fund Indonesia’s access to these medicines and then failing to follow through once the virus-sharing had resumed.

These extraordinary events are covered in Edward Hammond’s 2009 article, “Indonesia fights to change WHO rules on flu vaccines,” and Alan Sipress’s 2010 book, “The Fatal Strain.”

They took place under the leadership of the courageous and controversial Siti Fadilah Supari, Indonesia’s Health Minister from 2004-2009 and a member of the Presidential Advisory Council from 2010 to 2012. 

With the world’s highest number of human H5N1 cases and a staggering case-fatality rate of over 80 percent, Indonesia desperately needed help from the WHO. In response to Dr. Supari’s urgent requests for medicine, WHO sent a limited emergency supply of Tamiflu, but said that Indonesia would have to wait months to buy more and pay up to forty dollars per treatment.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon’s Naval Medical Research Unit Two (NAMRU-2), operating in 62,000 square feet of space in three buildings within the Indonesian Ministry of Health, was clandestinely hunting the H5N1 virus. The lab’s permission to operate had expired in 2000 and Indonesia asked it to cease all activities in 2005, but the U.S. military continued to collect viruses, paying under the table for samples from doctors in Indonesian hospitals. 

Then, Dr. Supari learned that foreign pharmaceutical companies were manufacturing vaccines with Indonesian H5N1 virus.  

At that point, Dr. Supari demanded that WHO acknowledge Indonesia’s sovereignty over its viruses and sign a material transfer agreement, which would limit what could be done with Indonesia’s virus samples and entitle it to compensation for commercial use.

In December 2006, Indonesia stopped sending H5N1 samples to WHO.

At a WHO Executive Board meeting in 2007, Thailand’s representative spoke up in support of the Indonesian position, saying:

“We are sending our virus to the rich countries to produce antivirals and vaccines. And when the pandemic occurs, they survive and we die. . . . We are not opposed to sharing of information and virus on the condition that every country will have equal opportunity to get access to vaccine and antivirals if such a pandemic occurs.” 

WHO refused.

Gates was the fixer who made sure foreign virus hunting could continue in Indonesia.

The Gates Foundation led Indonesia to believe that it would fund the production of H5N1 vaccines. With this expectation, Indonesia immediately resumed sharing bird-flu virus samples, but the promised vaccine stockpile failed to materialize. 

The U.S. created its own cache of H5N1 vaccines with $7.1 billion appropriated by Congress for pandemic preparation in 2005. The U.S. claimed its vaccine was created with a Vietnam strain.

In January 2008, Dr. Supari published a book on her campaign for viral sovereignty and vaccine justice, “It’s Time for the World to Change.”

Her book included evidence that genetic data from Indonesia’s virus samples were transferred by the Centers for Disease Control to a database at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“It was the same laboratory that designed the atomic bomb to destroy Hiroshima in 1945,” Dr. Supari wrote, adding: 

“It is likely that they utilize the same facility to research and develop chemical weapons. What a terrifying fact! The DNA sequence data had been the privilege for the scientists in Los Alamos. Whether they used it to make vaccines or develop chemical weapons would depend on the need and the interest of the U.S. government.”

Dr. Supari was vilified for raising the specter of biological weapons. The English version of her book was banned. In 2017, she was sentenced to jail on a bribery conviction and wasn’t released until October, 2020. 

The current Indonesian government strictly enforces its view that Dr. Supari is a dangerous conspiracy theorist. In November 2020, the drummer of the Indonesian punk band Superman Is Dead was sentenced to 14 months in jail. According to the Jakarta Post, one of his offenses was that he “accused ‘the global elite,’ including United States billionaire Bill Gates, of being behind the pandemic and has publicly supported former health minister and graft convict Siti Fadilah Supari, who has voiced similar suspicions about the Microsoft cofounder.”

Dr. Supari’s life has been ruined, and her supporters are being jailed, but her cause garnered some success. 

In 2010, NAMRU-2 was forced out of the country due to what the military called Dr. Supari’s “unsubstantiated accusations of espionage, biological weapons research, and development of ‘new diseases’ to enhance pharmaceutical companies’ profit margins.”

In 2011, the WHO’s Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework stated that countries sharing virus samples with WHO’s Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System should be compensated with vaccines and antivirals when needed. However, the Framework was:

“not legally binding, avoid[ed] intellectual property issues that complicated the negotiations, d[id] not include commitments from developed countries to donate portions of influenza vaccines they purchase[d], and face[d] implementation challenges in an increasingly difficult global health environment.)”

Dr. Supari’s worries about biological weapons turned out to be justified. In 2012, a paper was published explaining how the Indonesian H5N1 virus had been weaponized in gain-of-function research.

Fast-forward to COVID-19 and we see suspicious deaths of leaders critical of globalist pandemic policies. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., lists them in The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health:

President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti was murdered by a team of elite, well-trained Colombian mercenaries with links to United States intelligence agencies. Moïse was a vocal opponent of the WHO vaccine program. 

The African leaders who died suddenly after criticizing WHO vaccination policy included President John Magufuli of Tanzania (March 17, 2021), Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko of Ivory Coast (March 10, 2021), President Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi (January 8, 2020), and Madagascar’s popular, influential, and anti-vax ex-President Didier Ignace Ratsiraka (March 28, 2021). Kenya’s beloved physician Stephen Karanja, the chairman of the Kenya Catholic Doctors Association—who had exposed the WHO sterilization program in 2014 and who criticized the agency’s COVID rollout in 2020—also died, reportedly of COVID (April 29, 2021). 

A peer-reviewed article in the BMJ titled “Why have so many African leaders died of COVID?” lists seventeen heads of state and leading government health ministers who passed in the twelve months between February of 2020 and February of 2021. The BMJ article states that almost all of these deaths resulted in dramatic shifts in national health policies from skepticism toward strong support for vaccination in their respective countries. The article points out that the overall death rates (1:33) among African elected leaders from COVID are seven times the rates for their sex and age and demographics of the general population during that time period.

Putting aside the very real possibility that leaders who didn’t toe the line were murdered, during the COVID-19 pandemic, national governments and their state and local subunits largely retained their sovereign power over public health measures. 

This was evident in the diversity of approaches across the U.S. to lockdowns and vaccine mandates. The differences allowed people to vote with their feet and move from states like California whose policies were perceived as draconian to states like Florida that seemed more freedom-loving.

If the World Health Organization gets its way, future pandemic policies will be dictated globally and micromanaged down to the local level.

The WHO is currently in the process of amending its International Health Regulations and drafting a “Pandemic prevention, preparedness and response accord.” It has also recently released new recommendations on COVID-19.

This is the framework of a medical dictatorship of, by and for the pharmaceutical companies to replace democracy of, by and for the people. Even if it were all sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, we should oppose it, because once our sovereignty is lost, we cannot control the direction that inherently undemocratic global governance will take.

However, there are some clear red-flags indicating the WHO’s nefarious intentions.

One red-flag is the WHO’s obsession with “misinformation” and its refusal to acknowledge the First Amendment values of “freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” (Of course, as an inherently undemocratic global executive, without an electoral process, or coequal judicial or legislative branches to provide checks and balances, there is no way for people to petition the WHO!)

When the Organic Consumers Association was placed on the so-called “Disinformation Dozen” hit-list of spokespersons and organizations advocating for vaccine safety and efficacy (even though vaccination wasn’t an issue we were working on), I investigated and traced the campaign against us back to Bayer (Monsanto).

Another red-flag is the WHO’s disinterest in health and healing and its narrow focus on testing and tracking. The WHO pushes vaccination and pharmaceuticals at the expense of health baselines lacking around the world, namely clean water, sanitation, nutritious food and healthy diets.

In 2023, the WHO issued a resolution instructing countries to develop national “integrated networks to tackle all diseases” and made a decision to take up the European Union system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish the WHO Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN). The stated goal is to “help facilitate global mobility,” but that can be read to mean we won’t be able to move across borders without it.

What the WHO is constructing is a permanent pandemic security state where people are constantly tested for thousands of diseases. Test status—which would be digitized and required like identification—could then be used to restrict travel, work or education or to require quarantine, pharmaceuticals or vaccination.

To lengthen the tentacles of this pandemic security state, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is currently developing an expansive suite of new technologies, including:

Detect It with Gene Editing Technologies (DIGET) recently awarded a contract to biological weapons contractor MRI Global to build a multiplexed detection device to screen up to a thousand pathogens at a time.

Epigenetic CHaracterization and Observation (ECHO) is similar, but measures the body’s response to viral infection rather than testing for viruses.

SIGMA+, led by RTI International and supported by Garmin® International, Inc. uses wearable technology to detect infectious diseases based on an individual’s immune response.

Where is this ultimately leading us?

Dr. Meryl Nass is the foremost expert in the movement to preserve U.S. democracy and prevent our local, state and national power over our own welfare from being subsumed by the WHO.

In her recent primer on “How the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty encourages rather than prevents pandemics,” she reasons “you don’t need a vaccine passport…unless you are giving out regular boosters.” 

“Were the vaccines conceived of as the pathway to getting our vaccinations, health records, official documents and financial transactions all online—as Ukraine has already done?” she wonders.

The bottom line is, whether it’s the WHO or the WTO, the global transfer of economic and political power from sovereign democratic national governments to lawless multinational corporations is a disaster for human rights, the environment, social welfare, agriculture, food safety, workers’ rights and health.

To learn more, watch:

Vandana Shiva: THIS Is How We Beat the Great Reset

WHO Chronicles With James Corbett + Dr. Meryl Nass

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