PHA-Exch> Gates role in Governing Global Health (3)

[Claudio Schuftan]

On 12/7/07, Alison Katz <katz.alison at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Agree and the interests and strategies of Gates and all corporate
> "philanthropists" are urgent research priorities.
>
>  Greg Palast has already done useful work in this area and Mae Wan Ho's
> article in Science in Society Issue 35, Autumn 2007 is an eye opener on the
> nature of this "philanthropic" foundations's activities and interests.
>
>  www.i-sis.org.uk/PhilanthropyGatesStyle.php
>
>  These articles leave one in *no doubt that foundations of
> multimillionaires should have no role to play in global policy making *–
> as PHM stated in the Cuenca declaration in relation to public private
> partnerships. (Of course in a fair world, no one would be able to accumulate
> so much money, and these people would contribute like any one else to a
> redistributive, progressive tax base, allowing nations to provide for the
> basic needs of all their citizens).
>
>  On 12/7/07, Theodore MacDonald <theo at macdonaldbn17.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >  Clearly David Legge's comments on the Gates Foundation financial
> > support for public health in the third world is absolutely spot on. The
> > empire works under many guises and is becoming increasingly desperate as
> > masses of ordinary people become aware (largely because of the environmental
> > crisis facing us all) that neoliberalism is a ruinous doctrine.
> > It seems equally obvious to me that, despite the dodgy reasons behind
> > such endowments, they should be effectively exploited for public health as
> > quickly as possible before further weakening in the system brings about
> > withdrawal of the funds!
> >
>
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