The Fault in Our SARS in the news
February 20, 2024
As usual Rob Wallace has made the media rounds, this time with his latest book, The Fault in Our SARS. Listen and watch!
Tag: Covid-19
WATCH: Rob Wallace convenes a community of radical epidemiologists, planners, artists and educators around The Fault in Our SARS
February 20, 2024
Watch an incredible community of radical thinkers and doers come together as they convene around “The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era,” a new book by Rob Wallace and co-authors….
Taking the measure of neoliberal capitalism (Populist Register reviews ‘Socialist Register 2022)
February 20, 2024
‘Socialist Register 2022’ delivers thought-provoking analysis of the factors and forces driving multiple polarizations in our world, including identities of nation and race, social class and political parties, the coronavirus pandemic and climate catastrophe. That is a partial list.
WATCH! MR CONVERSATIONS: PANDEMIC POLARIZATIONS (Plus excerpts from the Socialist Register 2022)
February 20, 2024
With contributions from: Walden Bello, Bill Fletcher Jr., Virginia Fontes, Samir Gandesha, Ana Garcia, Jayati Ghosh, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, Sam Gindin, David Harvey, Rejane Hoeveler, Ilya Matveev, Simon Mohun, Adolph Reed Jr. and Touré F. Reed, Vishwas Satgar, James Schneider, Ingar Solty, Samir Sonti, Hilary Wainwright, and Oleg Zhuravlev….
The sour vindication, bitter eloquence of “Dead Epidemiologists” (Rob Wallace interviewed by The Nation)
February 20, 2024
“As an epidemiologist, you’re supposed to want to put yourself out of business,” Wallace said. “Everyone has bills to pay; I understand that. But the extent to which your corruption might lead to a pathogen that could kill a billion people—that’s where my line is”….“You can intellectually understand something but still not assimilate the oncoming damage,” he told me later, as he recalled the “sour vindication” of having his worst fears come true. “So there’s an aspect of rage, and an arrival at an understanding.”
Critical clarity of perspective on pandemic’s cause (‘Dead Epidemiologists’ reviewed by Marx & Philosophy Review of Books)
February 20, 2024
Dead Epidemiologists “speaks more plainly than academic jargon is wont to allow. Yet, in my view, this is one of the book’s biggest strengths. It makes the book accessible, and that accessibility is going to be important if we, as a global community, are to tackle the problem that Wallace and his colleagues articulate…”
A planned failure (Capital and Class reviews “Dead Epidemiologists”)
February 20, 2024
Rather than looking out for hi-tech solutions, Wallace insists that we should learn from the international peasants’ movements such as La Via Campesina in its call for food sovereignty and resistance against global corporate trade and food regime…..
From “Dead Epidemiologists” to epidemiology for the people
February 20, 2024
In a recent review of Rob Wallace’ latest work, we are reminded that “If the virus has a source it is not Yunnan but the boardrooms of giant corporations.” The review takes the time to name the culprits..
“Dead Epidemiologists:” A personalized, enlivening take on Covid-19
February 20, 2024
Author Rob Wallace made a decision: His new book Dead Epidemiologists would take a personal approach. How could it not? While he introduces his work through this intimate lens, Wallace’s perspective is global, tracking “the implications of capitalist agricultural production, distribution and consumption that is harming the web of life….”
Rob Wallace on who’s to blame (Listen: Background Briefing)
February 20, 0482
“…the thought was, this is the cost of doing business, and that they would externalize the cost, not just on the people of China, but on the rest of the world…China is not alone in that. The U.S. has done that, Europe has done that…the Swine flu, H1N1 that emerged in 2009 outside Mexico City, our team calls that the NAFTA flu, (from) the U.S. meat dumped onto the Mexican market….In other words we did it ourselves, in 2009, this very thing that China has also been doing for several decades.”