It is a mistake to think that wars only concern armies involved in active engagement.
In the end, it is the story of hope and how we can regain our sanity and our health in a world gone mad..
It is the story of profits over people.
AIDS, Opium, Diamonds, and Empire tells the dramatic story of a financial ideology that is damaging to everything that it means to be human.
This book of social history points to a cauldron of historical events that contributed to the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Their aim was to create profit, not to conquer disease.
Through meticulous research, Banks found a medicalpharmaceutical- industrial complex that was taken over one hundred years ago by the titans of financial capitalism.
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.
The dark princes of debt finance have gained leverage over every important social, economic, and political institution-including the health care delivery system.
The real forces of evil wage a financial war.
Nothing is farther from the truth.
It is a mistake to think that wars only concern armies involved in active engagement