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🔗 Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Medical scholar Harriet Washington joins us to talk about her new book, "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present." The book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and the roots of the African American health deficit. It also examines less well-known abuses and looks at unethical practices and mistreatment of blacks that are still taking place in the medical establishment today.

🔗 24 hours in pictures - News - guardian.co.uk

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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba: An Arabic translator censors out news before detainees are given the paper in the US military prison

🔗 al-Shorouk’s story on secret Sudan raids | The Arabist

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The reason we’ve never heard about any of this, apparently, is that the US is not advertising the operations, the al-Bashir regime in Khartoum has declared a media blackout, and Egypt is respecting the blackout but keeping a close eye since this involves major arms traffic (it’s an old route, once used by the French poet Rimbaud) going through its territory. Today al-Shorouk said that an Egyptian intelligence agent visited the area to verify the issue.