Behind closed doors at the UN and in Western capitals, government and corporate officials are arguing over the size and governance of a fund that is going to be the primary international response to the greatest public health pandemic since the Black Death.
Read Richard Kim’s report on the Stop Global AIDS March here.
Read the UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS here.
New York City; Saturday, June 23, 2001–The Stop Global AIDS March today brought together thousands of AIDS, debt relief, anti-racist and anti-globalization activists from around the world
I’m sitting in a drab back room in the Gaza Strip’s Deir al Bala refugee camp, discussing the latest stage of the Israel-Palestine conflict with a half-dozen or so young Palestinian men.
Click here to review some of the more perceptive comments on the Scalia Five’s judicial coup d’etat.
Though Bush intends to drop the missile treaty,
He’s happy that this Putin guy’s so neat, he
Will prove to be the nicest sort of Roosky.
So just relax, and crack yourself a brewski.
Three million American soldiers–men for the most part–participated in the US invasion of Vietnam over the decade-long duration of that war for us–roughly 1964 to 1973.