Venezuela in 5 minutes: ‘Inflation is projected to reach 10,000,000 percent in 2019’

On this week’s episode of the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show, I did a whole hour with infectious diseases pathologist and clinician at the IDB Biomedical Research Institute in Barquisimeto, Venezuela and founder of the Venezuelan Science Incubator, Dr Alberto E. Paniz-Mondolfi. The show was about the multiple epidemics situation in the More...

Venezuela: Our next act of overseas military interventionism?
Venezuela. This country is an absolute mess, it has been for a while and is exponentially getting worse. A mass exodus to neighboring countries, 1,000,000 percent inflation, violence, starvation and plunder. The More...

Jimmy Carter: An underrated President
James Earl Carter, Jr, a Democrat from Plains, Georgia, was the 39th President of the United States. I believe and will lay out my case, while the Republicans ridiculed and criticized him incessantly, particularly More...

Lindsey Graham, John Bolton and war with North Korea, Oh My!
While a push for diplomacy with the “Hermit Kingdom” roles on simultaneously with plans for potential military operations, two of the country’s biggest chickenhawks are actually encouraging war More...

Socialist policies playing out: A great commentary on the demise of Venezuela
While I have talked and written about the tragedy that full-blown socialism has brought to Venezuela, mostly focusing on the return of infectious diseases and the health consequences, both on this website and on More...

Krugman calls out Trump for cholera in Puerto Rico, CDC does not anticipate
It’s so unfortunate that politics trumps everything in 2017 (no pun intended), so much to the point that it is nauseating to continue to read and hear about. Whether it be the NFL or Dr. Seuss books, it is More...

CDC budget cut proposal generates tons of hyperbole
It seems like every Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) budget, regardless of who is in power in Washington, there are complaints that there is never enough money. Image/bykst via pixabay During the More...

Vaccines, aborted fetal tissue and the Christian
I recently did an interview with the creator of the WI-38 cell strain, Leonard Hayflick, PhD on the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show. Who is Dr Hayflick? In 1962, Leonard Hayflick created a cell strain from an More...

Trump’s tax return revelation: Not much there, too much taxes paid
I wasted an hour of my life watching the Rachel Maddow show last night for the huge revelation of two-pages of President Donald Trump’s 2005 tax return. photo/ donkeyhotey Apparently, the pages were left in More...

Tired of conservative talk radio? Check out these great podcasts
While I work, I would listen to talk radio and during the day, conservative talk radio dominates. Image/pixabay However, how long can one listen to Sean Hannity drone on about the latest Republican talking points More...