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Cuba Against Ebola: Different Approach, Different Results

March 12, 2015 By Matt Peppe Leave a Comment

In recent weeks the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has slowed from a peak of more than 1,000 new cases per week to 99 confirmed cases during the week of February 22, according to the World Health Organization. For two countries that have taken diametrically opposed approaches to combating the disease, the stark difference in the results achieved over the last five months has become evident.

The United States, which sent about 2,800 military troops to the region in October, has announced an end to its relief mission. Most soldiers have already returned. Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby declared the mission a “success.” The criteria for this determination is unclear, as the troops did not treat a single patient, much less save a single life. President Barack Obama proclaimed the American response to the crisis “an example of American leadership.”

The other country who has taken a very public role in the Ebola crisis is Cuba. Unlike the U.S., Cuba sent nearly 500 professional healthcare workers — doctors and nurses — to treat African patients who had contracted Ebola. These included doctors from the Henry Reeve Brigade, which has served over the last decade in response to the most high-profile disasters in the world, including in Haiti and Pakistan. In Haiti, the group was instrumental in detecting and treating cholera, which had been introduced by UN peace keepers. The disease sickened and killed thousands of Haitians.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Health & Lifestyle Tagged With: Africa, American imperialism, Cuba, Ebola, military

2015 Predictions: I Can’t Breathe … Can You?

January 1, 2015 By David Seaton Leave a Comment

Eric Garner, a harmless man, who was strangled to death by a brutal police officer, has given me a simple answer to a question that other Americans have often asked me over the years, “why do you live abroad?”

At the heart of everything is the ongoing collapse of the middle class in the most highly developed countries. This is something that is destabilizing precisely those countries whose role has always been to stabilize the rest. That is the multiplier of all the other instabilities.

Filed Under: Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: 1033 program, 2014, 2015, Barack Obama, capitalism, class war, Ebola, Eric Garner, European Union, Eurozone, Ferguson, I can't breathe, inequality, instability, John Bassett, LAPD, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles School Police Department, middle class, New Year, New York Times, NYPD, Oxford University, police, police militarization, police state, poverty, Reuters, Russia, social unrest, technology, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Washington Post, Washington Times

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