Author Archives: aidarends

The Truth About Jimmy Carter

On August 14, 2004, Venezuelan voters will decide on a referendum, which has the utmost world historic and strategic significance. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the energy world, the relations between the US and Latin America (particularly Cuba), and the political and socio-economic fate of millions of Venezuela’s urbanContinue reading “The Truth About Jimmy Carter”

A One Health Investigation into H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus Epizootics on Two Dairy Farms | medRxiv

Background: In early April 2024 we studied two Texas dairy farms which had suffered incursions of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) the previous month. Methods: We employed molecular assays, cell and egg culture, Sanger and next generation sequencing to isolate and characterize viruses from multiple farm specimens (cow nasal swab, milk specimens, fecalContinue reading “A One Health Investigation into H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus Epizootics on Two Dairy Farms | medRxiv”

Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition – AAIHS

Elaine Brown attempted to sue me in March 1998 when I organized an abolitionist conference at CU-Boulder, at the request of Angela Davis, as a prototype for Critical Resistance (CritResist) held at UC-Berkeley that September. “Unfinished Liberation”— named after one of Davis’s UCLA lectures— was CU’s largest, most expensive conference at the time. — ReadContinue reading “Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition – AAIHS”