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Friends of Russian reformers abroad—such as Gati, the Hungarian-born American diplomat who also knew Kozyrev from their shared time in New York—despaired at the First Chechen War. Gati later recalled that war as a watershed moment, when he and other Westerners who had been optimistic about Russia’s future instead became convinced that the country could never develop in the way Kozyrev hoped it would.159 A New York Times journalist called the invasion of Chechnya “the end of Russia’s liberal dream.”
Not One Inch
M. E. Sarotte
Many of the city’s white residents, including Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, erroneously thought that something in the constitution of Black people kept them from catching the virus.18 So they pressed African Americans into service as nurses, caretakers, and gravediggers. Allen, Jones, and other members of the Free African Society were instrumental in tending to the city’s sick, with Allen himself falling ill and recovering.
The 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine
Eine unabhängige und vor allem wissenschaftsbasierte Patienteninformation ist umso dringlicher. In Deutschland ist selbst die Unabhängige Patientenberatung Deutschland, UPD, nicht mehr unabhängig. Die UPD wird von einem privatwirtschaftlichen Unternehmen geführt, dem Pharmanähe vorgehalten wird.
Ingrid Mühlhauser: „Fakten-Gestützte Medizin Soll Offenbar Aus Dem Gesundheitssystem Eliminiert Werden“ - MedWatch
medwatch.de
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