AIDS
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Queen of the Skies By Joe Bageant
As I drove through the decaying neighborhood in Winchester, Virginia the pain of growing up there came back — the stabbing kind that only lasts a second but makes you flinch as you remember some small but stupid and brutal moment of adolescence. I have never known if everyone has them, but I’ve always suspected… Continue reading
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South Africa: A Nation in Protest, a Moment of Hope By Jennifer Dohrn
I am here continuing the project to build nurse capacity out of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health ICAP. I flew straight to East London, got unpacked into my continually welcoming home in Gonubie, and took off to rural Eastern Cape province immediately, to begin a whirlwind ten days of developing a concrete proposal… Continue reading
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Edward Hooper October 10th, 2008: AIDS Origins – HIV-1 in 1908? Another sad comedy of errors from Michael Worobey
A much simpler and better-supported explanation for the recently- discovered 1960 HIV-1 fragment is that both it and the 1959 HIV-1 fragment are the results of the administering in Leopoldville and elsewhere in the Belgian Congo from 1957 onwards of different batches of an experimental live vaccine. This vaccine, an oral polio vaccine (OPV) called… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, May 1, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, May 1, 2008 The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life May 1, 2008 www.killinghope.org Since I gave up hope, I feel better. ‘More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other Continue reading
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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil By William Bowles
15 November 2007 AIDS, truly the white man’s burden It’s taken decades to unmask the story of how AIDS came to be, and far from being an ‘act of nature’, the real story of its origins is one of ruthless ambition and professional rivalries, entrenched interests, racism and the arrogance and the indifference of the Continue reading
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Bush in the Bush William Bowles
Today, Bush arrives in Senegal where he’ll visit Goree Island, one of the locations from which an estimated 20 million slaves started their long journey to the Americas. Half of the 20 million never made it. And no doubt, Bush will make a speech about America’s commitment to ‘freedom’ and to Africa, blah-blah-blah…. Continue reading