What is the pharmaceutical drug cartel?
The pharmaceutical drug cartel has been in existence for over eighty years. Its roots lie in the German IG Farben cartel that was formed in the early twentieth century by a merger of companies including BASF, Bayer and Hoechst (now Aventis). Subsequently, and as revealed by tens of thousands of historical documents from the Nuremberg Tribunal, IG Farben planned and financed World War II – a war that cost the lives of more than 60 million people. Since World War II, the cartel’s size and influence has grown dramatically, and, as a result of its efforts to defend and promote the global pharmaceutical drug market, its influence now extends to the heart of most governments in the world; to the media; to medical education and to many other areas.
