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Smokescreens: How Working Kills Smokers

admin — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:17:15 +0000

Smoking serves as a political smokescreen to hide the damage caused by occupational and environmental pollution.

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.

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

Human beings protest their oppression with open rebellion and through symptoms of sickness and distress. The prison system crushes the rebels, medicine treats the sick, and psychiatry subordinates the distressed. The effect of psychiatric “treatment” is to resign the discontented to their lot and drug the resisters into submission.

The Past Does Not Predict the Future

admin — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:55:30 +0000

Pessimism is self-fulfilling. When we expect nothing to change, then we do nothing to create change.

Pain is the Price of Remaining Human

admin — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:43:43 +0000

Human suffering should not be treated as individual and medical, but as social and political.

The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind

admin — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:52:54 +0000

Imagine what we could do if we used our minds to solve social problems, instead of restricting ourselves to choosing which section of the elite will dominate us.

Who Are We?

admin — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:20:49 +0000

Who decides who we are: Us or Them?

Machismo at Work

admin — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:27:31 +0000

Until they fight back as a class, workers will continue to construct more dehumanized conditions for themselves.

How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground

admin — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:07:23 +0000

Capitalism creates impossible conditions for both sexes. Because meeting human needs would cut into profits, people are deprived of what they need and then shamed for feeling needy. As resentment builds, we attack our loved ones instead of the system that keeps us deprived.