Important as it is to not give a boost to excuses for warmongering, and as important as it is to recognize the horror of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the issue of biowarfare is of the highest concern to me as an African. African governments, companies, and scientists have demonstrated a heartbreaking incapacity to offer any worthwhile medical response to Covid 19 (nor to Ebola or even malaria) and we have had to be totally dependent on Western, Eastern and UN humanitarian handouts and leftovers.
Whenever rumors of these great powers messing around with pathogens that could wipe out the world get out, we should make a lot of noise and rouse moral indignation among their citizenry. Africa has the least capacity to protect its people from these horrors. We should be mindful therefore of the possibility that these horrible viruses and bacteria have laboratory origins. This has been canvassed by people with credible credentials and however much is the countervailing evidence and claim that these concerns are conspiracy theories, I see no justification for ruling out the possibility. Africa has only been very fortunate that the Covid-19 outbreak did not wreak as much havoc on the continent as it has done in Western Europe, US, Iran or Brazil.
Perhaps Glenn Greenwald is for or against the US or the Russians; whichever the case may be his analysis of the US spin on their bio lab shenanigans in Ukraine makes a lot of sense.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological?s=r
 | Nuland's bizarre admission that "Ukraine has biological research facilities" that are dangerous enough to warrant concern that they could fall into Russian hands ironically constituted more decisive evidence of the existence of such programs in Ukraine than what was offered in 2002 and 2003 to corroborate U.S. allegations about Saddam's chemical and biological programs in Iraq. greenwald.substack.com |
Femi J. Kolapo | Department of History | www.uoguelph.ca/history
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Sent: Friday, March 11, 2022 9:53 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: more on chemical biological propaganda
Ken:
My point: I cannot trust both sides when it comes to this issue. We never knew, many years ago, that Israeli scientists were working in South Africa to develop nuclear bomb.
When it comes to issues such as this, we can never know until years later.
It is recently that we got to know that in resolving the Russian-Cuba partnership, that the US made a secret deal to withdraw its army from Turkey for the Russian submarine to turn back.
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu>
Date: Friday, March 11, 2022 at 8:41 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - more on chemical biological propaganda
whom do you believe?
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| President Xi Jinping of China, left, and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in 2019. The two leaders have grown closer, largely because of a shared desire to undermine American global dominance. www.nytimes.com |
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
517 803-8839
harrow@msu.edu
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