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Epidemic
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The concept of an imported epidemic laying wast to vulnerable native inhabitants works just as well applied to the British, and other colonial nations, as it does to fungal spores.
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― The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History
― The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History
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the philanthropic NGO has long been decried by the left as a means of addressing only the symptoms of poverty and thus obscuring the political strategies needed to overcome it. NGOs are criticised for creating Potemkin villages not replicable at scale. their limits are often painfully apparent. some are ‘briefcase’ NGOs, to give their founders income or profit.
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― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
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