Epidemics don’t just kill lots of people, they “take up a lot of space in the national budget” and affect relationships of “security and power,” said Adia Benton, a professor of anthropology at Northwestern University who has done extensive field work in disease-plagued regions of Africa. Benton has authored a book, titled, “HIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone.” Benton says donor countries, NGOs and ruling elites often focus on every political and economic aspect of deadly epidemics except “the failure of care.”
The manufactured outrage over Vladimir Putin's presence at the Alaska summit was an attempt to reinforce a global racial order. The rules-based international order has always been a hierarchy of who…
Missing the enemy, or how Western leftists fail in their analysis yet again. Bolivia is the latest example.
The deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. is a militarized occupation disguised as a public safety initiative. This move weaponizes the state's power to…
The US issues a $50 million bounty on President Maduro while Sanctioning the Venezuelan people and starving Gaza.
Al-Obeid, 41, was killed on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, in an Israeli attack on civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in the southern Gaza Strip.
