NP Imperialist "Ethics"

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Article about the reception of Patrick Tierney's _Darkness in El Dorado_:

"Well before it reached the bookstores, Patrick Tierney's _Darkness in El
Dorado_ set off a flurry of publicity and electronic debate over its
allegations that, at about the same time American soldiers were carrying out
search-and-destroy missions in the jungles of Vietnam, American scientists
were doing something like research-and-destroy by knowingly spreading
disease in the jungles of Amazonia."

[ ... ]

"It reads like an allegory of American power and culture since Vietnam."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/0102/17/spectrum/spectrum4.html

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