Folks,

Reading in the news few days ago that MRC is involved in yet another
"experiment" for a new Anti-Malarial drug in The Gambia sends a chill down
my spine. This article below from AFIB makes me wonder what our poor folks
down in Keneba and other villages are faced with through these "unethical"
experiments. I hope and pray that the real dangers of these "experiments"
are made known to the subjects. Read on.


Abdoulie A. Jallow
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FASCISM'S "SCIENTIFIC" FACE
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By Tom Burghardt
Editor, Antifa Info-Bulletin

Under cover of "national security", gruesome Nazi-like projects were
carried out by the U.S. National Security State throughout the Cold War
period and beyond. When revelations emerged several years ago that the U.S.
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) sponsored "medical" research that injected
gravely ill patients with radioactive plutonium with neither their knowledge
nor their consent, a firestorm gripped Washington and forced the Energy
Department to release thousands of pages of files documenting the hideous
trail of suffering and death inflicted by government-funded "research." (See
Eileen Welsome's 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning series, "The Plutonium
Experiment" in The Albuquerque Journal, November 15-17 1993).

Now a new book slated for release next month by investigative journalist
Patrick Tierney, "Darkness in El Dorado," New York, W.W. Norton & Co.,
threatens to rip the mask of respectability from the faces of several
prominent anthropologists who conducted genocidal experiments on the
Yanomami people of Venezuela in the late 1960s--with funds provided once
again by the AEC.

At the center of the controversy is James V. Neel, a human geneticist based
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Neel died last February.
According to Tierney, Neel and his colleagues injected the Yanomami with an
experimental vaccine for measles--with predictable and disastrous results.
According to galley proofs of Tierney's forthcoming book provided to
anthropologists opposed to such "research", Neel and his team knew well in
advance that the vaccine, which medical researchers maintain must never be
given to people who lack any natural immunity to the disease such as the
Yanomami, produced measle-like symptoms that were fatal "to hundreds,
perhaps thousands" of Amazonian tribespeople. Evidence has surfaced that
Neel knew such unethical experimentation would produce a mass outbreak of
the disease but proceeded despite this knowledge in order to "prove" his
racist theories of eugenics and male dominance.

There is also evidence that Neel and others, in collaboration with corrupt
Venezuelan officials and U.S. multinational mining corporations conspired to
"open-up" Yanomami lands to illegal gold-mining concessions with the
anthropologists providing necessary "cover" for developers.
While one wing of the National Security State showered cash for unethical
"medical research" described by one experimenter as having "a little of the
Buchenwald touch," the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency virtually invented
the field of "mass communications research" as a component of U.S.
"psychological operations" at home and abroad. (See: Christopher Simpson,
Science of Coercion, New York, Oxford University Press, 1994). According to
Simpson:
"Government psychological warfare programs helped shape mass communication
research into a distinct scholarly field, strongly influencing the choice of
leaders and determining which of the competing scientific paradigms of
communication would be funded, elaborated, and encouraged to prosper. The
state usually did not directly determine what scientists could or could not
say, but it did significantly influence the selection of who would do the
'authoritative' talking in the field."

With Tierney's revelations, we now are beginning to learn that the National
Security State's "public-private partnership" extended into the field of
social science and anthropology--with disastrous results for the victims of
government-funded criminality.
That "scientists" such as Neel and others described in the reports below
would engage in experiments that held the potential of genocide in order to
"prove" fascistic theories of "genetic male dominance" with its unmistakable
subtext of white supremacy should come as no surprise to AFIB readers.
Indeed, the origins of eugenics research and its heinous application by
Hitler's Nazi regime are inextricably linked to racist practices in the U.S.
by American-based eugenics researchers and lawmakers during the 1920s and
'30s. (See: Stefan Kuhl, The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and
German National Socialism, New York, Oxford University Press, 1994).

As spurious ideologies of "sociobiology" and eugenics enjoy a resurgence
among European and North American academics tied to the U.S. National
Security State and neo-Nazi outfits such as the Pioneer Fund, racist and
fascist discourse on an allegedly "criminal black underclass" are tailored
to today's "lock 'em up and throw away the key" mentality that permeates the
U.S. ruling class and well-funded "scholarly" pit-bulls at a score of North
American universities. Is it really a surprise that those who today deem an
entire generation of black and working class youth "expendable", so
much fodder to be trampled underfoot by killer cops, racist courts and the
so-called "prison-industrial complex", trace their theoretical lineage to
"scientists" who deserve nothing less than the fate dished out to Hitler's
underlings at Nuremburg?

At the very least, those who conducted genocidal experiments on the
Yanomami people must by brought to task for their crimes. But those who
funded and clandestinely approved of such "research" as a means to preserve
a criminal American capitalist order rooted in a history of genocide,
slavery and plunder must also be exposed, confronted and brought to account.

As the "world's sole superpower" continues to bask in the glory of having
"won the Cold War" against an alleged "Evil Empire", once more we ask: when
will "glasnost" force imperialism to reveal the full extent of its heinous
crimes against humanity?

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