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Blood Money
The billions of dollars being lavished on banks and other corporations is blood money. It's available only because people like Heather are being robbed of their kidneys, their health and their lives.
Continue reading...The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism
28. October 2007
Naomi Klein reminds us that free people don’t choose wars and free markets. They choose peace and government services like universal health care. That's why "radical capitalists" must use shock tactics to impose their anti-human policies on unwilling populations.
Continue reading...Can Psychotherapy Change the World?,
1. June 2007
Gloria Steinem, James Hillman and Michael Ventura believe that psychotherapy can heal a crisis-ridden world. Are they on to something, or are they leading us up a blind alley?
Continue reading...Babel
6. January 2007
In film and in life, the human struggle to connect conflicts with the social structures that block connection.
Continue reading...Who Killed The Electric Car?
21. October 2006
The myth of “consumer power” hides who really makes the decisions.
Continue reading...Investing in Poverty
1. April 2006
Jeffrey Sachs argues that too much poverty threatens the security of richer nations, causing wars and insurrections that cost more than it would cost to reduce poverty. Despite the title of his book, he doesn’t want to end poverty. He sees it as an investment opportunity.
Continue reading...Health and Social Policy
1. June 1999
While the authors of this book shatter "common sense" myths about health, they promote another myth – that health policy is shaped by science, when it is actually shaped by the needs of the capitalist system.
Continue reading...Caring for Profit in Canada’s Medical System
1. February 1999
In Caring for Profit, Colleen Fuller exposes the corporate players and their allies in medicine and government who are opening Canada’s health-care system to market forces.
Continue reading...The Crime of Punishment
1. August 1997
In Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and its Causes, James Gilligan dismantles the myths that most crimes are violent, that most violence is illegal, that most perpetrators are male, that most victims are female, and that violence will diminish if more criminals are imprisoned or executed.
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- Engels and the WHO Report
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- The Myth of Scarcity, Managed Care and Modern Malthusians
- Wanted: Health Care not Disease Care
- Class, Health and Health Care
- My Pain, Their Gain
- A Social Definition of Class
- Engels et le rapport de l’OMS
- Class, Inequality and Illness: What's Missing from the Health Care Debate
- Mothers Betrayed (16)
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (13)
- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (11)
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Cho Seung-Hui Delivers his Message (9)
- The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind (7)
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism (6)
- The Shocking Disaster of Capitalism (5)
- Class, Inequality and Illness: What's Missing from the Health Care Debate (4)
- Machismo at Work (4)
- War in the House of Labor (4)
- Appeal from Gaza - Please Help Us!
- Blood Money
- In Palestine, not even the birds are free
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism
- Engels et le rapport de l’OMS
- Engels and the WHO Report
- My Pain, Their Gain
- A Social Definition of Class
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
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