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LY BD © oF VEN? NATO SHOT DOWN PASSENGER PLANE 'BY MISTAKE’ is still said to own shares in Glaxo, despite their having said for some time that such shares had been sold. (Source: The New Abolitionist Newsletter, Winter 1995) After more than 15 years of lies, disinformation, cover-ups and a string of mysterious deaths, an answer may at last be forth- coming to the mystery of the explosion that blew up an Italian passenger plane just north of Sicily on 27 June 1980. Documents seized from Genera! Demetrio Cogliandro, the retired head of Italy's counter- espionage service, reveal that the civilian DC-9 got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, during a botched attempt by NATO fighters to blast Colonel Muammar Qaddafi out of the skies with an air-to-air missile. French and American jets launched a secret operation to do away with the Libyan leader in mid-air, but panicked when they were spotted and counter- attacked by MiGs escorting Colonel Qaddafi across the Mediterranean. When the civilian airliner came into range, the pilot of one French Mirage jet opened fire without first checking its iden- tity, killing all 81 people on board. (Sources: The Sydney Morning Herald, The Independent, 9 January 1996) USA BANS NEW AIDS BOOK The United States Government hopes you will never read the book, Why We Will Never Win the War on AIDS, by Bryan Ellison and Peter Duesberg. On 29 December 1995, a New York Federal Court issued an order that all copies of the book be destroyed. This latest order fol- lowed on the heels of an earlier order by the same judge, banning the book from distribution any- where in the United States or Canada, even for free. Later, on 7 January 1996, Judge John E. Sprizzo ordered author Bryan Ellison to destroy all copies of his book. Although he legally cannot distribute the book anymore, Ellison is determined to alert the public to this blatant cover-up. Nor is Ellison alone in his activism. Nationwide, hundreds of angry citizens are quickly banding together to form a grass- Toots Movement to expose the war of cen- sorship by the AIDS Establishment. Already this movement has spawned the "Save The AIDS Book" Legal Defense Fund, which is using the Internet as a pri- mary vehicle for releasing information. Computer users can now access the "Fabricated Epidemic" page at the “Censorship Bypass" world-wide web site. What makes this book so controversial is that Ellison and Duesberg belong to the ranks of hundreds of top scientists, includ- ing Nobel Prize-winners and members of the National Academy of Sciences at major institutions worldwide, who now believe that the US Federal Government has attrib- uted the AIDS epidemic to the wrong prance Britain's second biggest weapons manufac- turer, General Electric Company, lists among its shareholders the British Heart Foundation and St Bartholomew's, St George's and St Thomas's hospitals in London. (BMJ, 6 May 1995) Meanwhile, the ICRF and the Institute for Cancer Research own shares in Rothmans International and BAT, the mak- ers of John Player cigarettes. Both chari- ties also invest in Hanson, whose sub- sidiary, Imperial, produces Embassy and Regal brands of tobacco. Tobacco shares are also held by the National Asthma Campaign, whilst the BHF (again) owns shares in Guinness, Beefeater gin and Southern Comfort, despite the BHF warn- ing about excessive drinking being a factor in heart disease. Interestingly, the RSPCA WHOM CAN YOU TRUST? Dozens of health authorities and hospi- tals across Britain are major shareholders in Britain's arms trade, according to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade group. ores Lek. LONI SEE D. , cause. They maintain that the HIV virus, blamed in 1984 as the official cause of AIDS, is actually a harmless germ against which the government has wasted over US$40 billion in research and prevention. "If the public would find out about this disastrous mishandling of the War on AIDS, tens of thousands of government- funded scientists and gay rights organisa- tions would lose their funding overnight," says Ellison. "That's why they have to stop 6 * NEXUS APRIL-MAY 1996