Read the article in its original ZNET context here: October 13, 2014Tariq Ali: Today we are going to discuss medicine and what is going on in Africa but not just there, in other parts of the world too, and how privatised medicine is now dominating the field except in a few oasis there are still left Cuba, Venezuela, etc. With me is Professor Allyson Pollock, one … [Read more...] about The Origins of the Ebola Crisis- By Tariq Ali and Allyson Pollock Source: Counterpunch
My Lai Was Not An ‘Incident’: Seeking Full Disclosure on Vietnam
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Abby Zimet, staff writer. See the story in its original context at Common Dreams Language is telling; so are facts. With the approach of the "full panoply of Orwellian forgetfulness" that is a 13-year, $65 million commemoration of the Vietnam War by the same people who started it, it's nigh on impossible … [Read more...] about My Lai Was Not An ‘Incident’: Seeking Full Disclosure on Vietnam
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