by Dr.Harald Wiesendanger– Klartext
What the mainstream media is hiding
It was about time: Inspired by the MAHA campaign launched by US health reformer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a similar initiative has now emerged on the Old Continent: “Make Europe Healthy Again.”The founding event in the European Parliament was dominated by impassioned appeals and urgent warnings. So far, they have fallen on deaf ears.
An epidemic of chronic diseases is by no means confined to the United States. On this side of the Atlantic, too, healthcare systems have long been on the verge of collapse under the pressure of costs. Since 2010, cancer rates have risen by 20%; metabolic disorders affect one in three adults. Almost two-thirds – and already a quarter of all children – are overweight or even obese. Since the turn of the millennium, the number of diabetes cases has almost tripled. 60% of people over the age of 65 suffer from at least one long-term health disorder; two-thirds are multimorbid.
Hair-raising.
It was therefore only natural what happened in Brussels on October 15, 2025: Members of the European Parliament, together with doctors, scientists, and civil rights activists, launched the MEHA initiative: Make Europe Healthy Again! According to its website, MEHA is guided by seven basic principles. These include the right of every person to self-determination over their health, the sovereignty of nations and groups “against unelected powers and profiteers,” integrity and transparency in science, and the understanding of health as a harmonious whole of body, mind, and spirit.
MEHA was inspired by the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) campaign, the ambitious pet project of US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: an interdepartmental agenda launched by President Trump via Executive Order 14212 on February 13, 2025, comprising no less than 120 projects. A commission set up for this purpose is to coordinate government measures in the areas of health, nutrition, agriculture, education, and the environment, and fundamentally reform existing, obviously inadequate public health policy in order to address the causes of the “chronic disease epidemic,” including poor nutrition, chemical exposure, lack of exercise, stress, and overmedication.
It’s about self-determination
At the kick-off event for MEHA, Dr. Robert W. Malone—a physician, scientist, and biochemist who chairs the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—explained: “If we are not allowed to determine what happens to our own bodies and the medical treatments we undergo, there can be no personal freedom and no proportionality. The cornerstone of this ethical structure is the principle of informed consent of the patient, which has been widely violated during COVID.”
According to Louis Fouché—anesthesiologist, member of the MEHA steering committee, and head of the French section—”MEHA strives to depoliticize science, eliminate corporate influence on health authorities, and base medical practice on sound evidence combined with traditional and complementary approaches. (…) Both movements target the root causes—such as highly processed foods, pesticides, and environmental toxins—while advocating for preventive strategies rather than reactive measures.”
The idea to found MEHA arose from the COVID-19 pandemic, “which revealed profound systemic failures: a healthcare system that has transformed into a profit-driven ‘disease industry’ where science has been politicized, corporations have taken over public institutions, and frontline providers have faced repressive regulations such as restrictions on free speech and prescribing,” Fouché said. “MEHA was created in response to this—as a call to heal institutions, restore rigorous science, integrate modern and traditional medicine, and prioritize systemic prevention over treatment.”
The fatal role of the European Commission
As Austrian family physician Dr. Maria Hubmer-Mogg, another founding member of MEHA, explained at the launch event, the European Commission plays a fatal role: as an unelected executive, it controls the health policy of the entire EU; its regulations have an enormous influence on national health systems. “Citizens should be aware that 80% of their country’s policies originate from the EU. The European Medicines Agency is closely linked to the Commission and is not an independent medicines authority. With over 85% of its revenue coming from industry fees, the agency is financially dependent on the very companies whose products it is supposed to regulate.”
British cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra, MAHA advisor and member of the MEHA board, sees the key to success for both movements on this side of the Atlantic and across it in curbing the influence of corporations: “If we want to make Europe and America healthy again, corporate power must be a priority for public health. I am in favor of a free market, but I am not in favor of the freedom to deceive the market.“ The capture of institutions by corporations has created ”a combination of biological, social, environmental, and psychological factors” that perpetuate the crisis of chronic disease in both Europe and the US. This takeover, warned physician Dr. David Bell, is “the inevitable result of an outdated bureaucracy combined with commercial greed.” Encouraging, he said, are “signs of resistance to the administrative nanny state and the increasing spread of globalism in our areas of government responsibility, such as healthcare.”
Fundamental rights are at stake
Dutch MEP Rob Roos warned of increasingly brazen attacks on our fundamental right to natural food. “Under the guise of climate protection, traditional foods are being discredited.” Instead, we are being served a dystopian plate of lab-grown meat, insects, and highly processed substitute products. This is not innovation, but the dehumanization of our most basic food sources.
Roos sees a vicious circle at work: industries are making huge profits from foods that make us sick by leading to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. Even more lavish profits are then reaped by pharmaceutical companies that treat these conditions but do not cure them. They are not concerned with health, but with lifelong dependence. The earlier and the longer we feel bad, the better for business.
Roos recalled the shameful abuse of the Covid mantra “Trust the Science” as a political weapon to silence dissent. This scandal has brought home a painful truth: science is for sale. They characterize debate and dissent, not censorship and supposedly set-in-stone opinions based on eminence rather than evidence.
A project by confused “conspiracy theorists”?
Comments from German politicians on this cross-party, transatlantic health program that is so necessary? Apart from AfD representatives: none. And, as expected, virtually all mainstream media outlets swept the Brussels event under the carpet. When they did address it, as an exception, they “exposed” the medical initiative as a political project of vaccine critics, “conspiracy theorists,” and other confused individuals on the right wing who were exploiting the skepticism toward established institutions that had grown during the Corona years.
This echoes the American media’s response to Kennedy’s MAHA agenda: the movement must be denigrated as a “cult” led by a “faith healer who must not be criticized.” (1) Associated Press, the world’s largest news agency with 263 offices in 106 countries, denounces MAHA as “anti-science.” The project is “driven by a network of well-funded national groups led by people who have profited, financially and otherwise, from sowing distrust of medicine and science.”
There is no doubt that MEHA’s image is greatly damaged by its association with a project promoted by Trump. The more contradictory, narcissistic, confused, and untrustworthy the strong man in the White House appears, the easier it will be to kick the MAHA program and MAGA into the trash bin as soon as GOAT Donald, “Greatest Of All Times,” more or less involuntarily steps down, and no loyal Republican succeeds him. There would then probably be a swift return to business as usual – and the Kennedy impulse would remain an inconsequential curiosity of American health policy, as crazy as a US annexation of Greenland.
Note
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Healthy_Again, https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/will-the-maha-moms-turn-on-trump