SusanRosenthal.com - Solidarity is the Best Medicine » Blaming the Victim

“I got sick and tired of being treated like crap”

admin — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:14:15 +0000

by Jane Edgett - Hundreds of thousands of Canadian families have been plunged into poverty by a workers compensation system that denies them support.

Hungry for Solutions

admin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:01:13 +0000

Gabor Maté’s books are commercially successful because they tap into popular awareness of social problems while avoiding the uncomfortable conclusion that social revolution is required to solve them.

Madness, Power and the Media

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:00:37 +0000

Author Stephen Harper explains how media images of madness and mental distress reflect and reinforce the unequal social relations of capitalism.

Should Physicians be Activists?

admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:27:43 +0000

Dr. Roland Wong is under threat of losing his license to practice medicine. He helped people on social assistance get extra money for food.

One Million Kids on Anti-Psychotics

admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:00:49 +0000

Corporate America is awash in cash it stole from working-class families, whose distressed children are being labeled with mental disorders and drugged into submission.

Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

admin — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:32:16 +0000

A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray its victims and rebels as sick or deviant. Instead of correcting the social sources of sickness, psychiatry extracts the individual from society, splits the brain from the body, severs the mind from the brain and drugs the brain.

Where’s the Justice?

admin — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:19:39 +0000

Those who want to “crack down on crime” ignore the root cause of crime; the capitalist system of organized thievery.

The Secret: Snake Oil for the Soul

admin — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:58:05 +0000

The Secret assumes that we live in a just world where those who suffer must be doing something wrong.

Anger is the Emotion of Injustice

admin — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:27:11 +0000

Anger is an instinctive, automatic response to unfairness.

Tookie Was Right. They Want You to Blame Yourself

admin — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:06:11 +0000

The labor movement has a slogan, An Injury to One is an Injury to All. Capitalism has a different slogan, It’s All Your Fault.