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An eminent scientist and pioneer in the discovery of retroviruses challenges the widely accepted belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Duesberg argues that HIV is merely a harmless passenger virus that does not cause AIDS. Sure to spark intense debate, this provocative book offers an original and incisive critique of the rise and fall of HIV.

The United States intelligence establishment is a colossus. With stations in 170 countries, armed with cutting-edge surveillance gear, high-tech weapons, and fleets of armed and unarmed drone aircraft, it commands the most extensive and advanced intel force in history. But America's spy establishment still struggles to keep pace with a host of determined enemies around the world. In Intel Wars, leading espionage historian Matthew M. Aid delivers the inside stories of our decade-long struggle against terrorism.

In Patient Zero, Richard A. McKay presents a carefully documented and sensitively written account of the life of Gaetan Dugas, a gay man whose skin cancer diagnosis in 1980 took on very different meanings as the HIV/AIDS epidemic developed - and who received widespread posthumous infamy when he was incorrectly identified as patient zero of the North American outbreak.

In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century—from the 1860s to the 1970s—worker movements were at the cutting edge of internationalism. The creation in London of the International Workingmen’s Association in 1864 was a turning point. In this urgent, engaging work, historian Nicolas Delalande explores how international worker solidarity developed.

Le 13 juillet 1985, plus d’un milliard de personnes suivaient en direct le Live Aid, le concert qui voulait changer le monde. Organisé simultanément à Londres et à Philadelphie, il rassemblait les plus grands noms de la musique pour une journée hors du temps. Quarante ans plus tard, revivez cet événement légendaire à travers une série de 20 épisodes immersifs. Anecdotes méconnues, extraits d’archives, récits vibrants… De Queen à David Bowie, de U2 à Elton John, de Tina Turner à Bob Dylan, en passant par Duran Duran, The Cars ou Spandau Ballet, retrouvez les moments forts,...

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Financial aid to Ukraine is both controversial and well-supported in the United States. This Podcast explores the question: Who is it good for?

In den 1980er-Jahren versetzte HIV die Welt in Angst und Schrecken. Die Aidskrise hat bis heute Millionen Tote gefordert. Erst 1996 kam das erste wirksame Medikament auf den Markt. Heute kann man gut mit HIV leben – sofern man unter Therapie ist. In drei Folgen erzählt dieser Podcast die Geschichte von HIV und Aids in der Schweiz: FUCK: Welche Auswirkungen hatte und hat HIV auf Liebe und Sexualität? FIGHT: Welche Kämpfe wurden während der Aidskrise ausgefochten - und werden auch heute noch ausgefochten? CARE: Wer kümmerte sich um alle Menschen, die wegen ihrer Krankheit ausgestossen ...

“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness.” —David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon Vladimir...

An “unsparing account” (NPR) of art collective Gran Fury, which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and...

In "Plague" journalist Michael O'Loughlin investigates stories of the AIDS epidemic and the Catholic Church. Mike is America’s national correspondent and he’s covered Catholicism for more than a decade. Mike is also gay and Catholic—and he’s curious how others manage this sometimes complex identity. No time in modern history has been more volatile for gay Catholics than the height of the AIDS epidemic. So he spent the last few years interviewing people who were right in the middle of it. People who fought, worked and grieved through it.