This, but internationally. I can credit the current incarnation of my career to connections and friends I made via Twitter. That process has been a whole lot slower here.

And in the process insulted and tried to undermine Africa CDC. Not content to undermine trust in public health in the USA, they're trying to do the same in Africa. Oh and the initial funding for this experiment came from Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Foundation - they shouldn't escape scrutiny.

Which is why something akin to a "new nonaligned movement" is key, but this is currently faltering and there's not much sign of a widely supported vision.

To support your argument: the civil rights movement we remember willing was not the first one.

Unfortunately in South Africa a key tool of (police) torture continues to be the widely available plastic bag: viewfinder.org.za/tubing-the-a...

Because of this, one of the cross-pollinations that seems interesting is with @mazzucatom.bsky.social's work on the "Common Good Economy" (see e.g. marianamazzucato.substack.com/p/directing-...) - the *politics* of building support for such a vision is another thing though...

Listening to the conversation about this, esp. with @parismarx.com, I'm struck about how similar these sound to the challenges Africa has with localised pharmaceutical production. Underneath it all is a need to focus on new models of innovation, but the elites are capitalist elites so don't care

Kathy Eban, who wrote a hit piece on EcoHealth Alliance

After Apartheid, Craig Williamson went on to work for British American Tobacco (BAT) and it's associates, where he allegedly conspired with other ex-Apartheid cops to manipulate law enforcement and tax authorities in BAT's favour.