CounterPunch Exclusives

CounterPunch Exclusives

MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) just got a poke in the eye as the US Supreme Court narrowed avenues for plaintiff cases against the chemical giant Bayer (formerly Monsanto). Ever since March 2015, when the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as a Group 2A “probable human carcinogen” tort cases exploded up to 170,000 claims of complications from Roundup.

The US president had already ‘greased the skids’ for the Supremes by declaring glyphosate as a crucial necessity for National Defense by signing an executive order; Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides d/d February 18, 2025.

Under the order, the US Secretary of Agriculture is directed to ensure that no government “order, rule, or regulation” threatens the financial viability of domestic producers of the substances. Hmm, it also grants those producers immunity under the Defense Production Act. Critics claimed this provision could be used to insulate manufacturers from legal accountability.

Some of the leaders of Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), the lobby group that supports US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy, immediately took umbrage, but RFK,........

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