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AIDS, opium, diamonds, and empire : the deadly virus of international greed by Nancy Turner Banks MD, Thomas Cowan, Stefan Lanka is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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It is a mistake to think that wars only concern armies involved in active engagement. Nothing is farther from the truth. The real forces of evil wage a financial war. The dark princes of debt finance have gained leverage over every important social, economic, and political institution-including the health care delivery system. In AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire, author Nancy Turner Banks draws the connections between free market strategies, the destruction of national sovereignty by the process of globalization, and AIDS as one of the health consequences of a neo-Darwinian philosophy. Through meticulous research, Banks found a medicalpharmaceutical- industrial complex that was taken over one hundred years ago by the titans of financial capitalism. Their aim was to create profit, not to conquer disease. This book of social history points to a cauldron of historical events that contributed to the HIV/AIDS crisis. AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire tells the dramatic story of a financial ideology that is damaging to everything that it means to be human. It is the story of profits over people. In the end, it is the story of hope and how we can regain our sanity and our heal
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nancy Turner Banks MD, Thomas Cowan, Stefan Lanka
- Publisher
- Nancy Turner Banks MD - iUniverse
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781450201711
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (101 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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