The State Department is considering withholding lifesaving assistance to people with H.I.V. in Zambia as a negotiating tactic to force the government of the southern African country to sign a deal giving the United States more access to its critical minerals.
“We will only secure our priorities by demonstrating willingness to publicly take support away from Zambia on a massive scale,” a draft of a memo prepared for Secretary of State Marco Rubio by the department’s Africa Bureau staff says. A copy of the memo was obtained by The New York Times.
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Jesus fucking Christ.
Mafia boss withholds burning down the shop as a negotiating tactic
Countries shouldn’t respect medical intellectual properties in the first place. What the WTO has done to African nations in coercing them into these “agreements” is morally reprehensible. In fact, I’m increasingly in agreement with that British economist who’s been pushing African Countries to enact currency controls, which she argues will allow them to be more independent of the US global currency system.
Honestly, what’s even the point of having a country without a currency you control independent of the whims of whatever fascist my fellow Americans elect.
