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Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness

Saturday, October 31, 2009

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Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness

America has the worst health statistics in the industrialized world because it is the most unequal society in the industrialized world. Social inequality affects the health of populations even more than access to medical care.

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Healthcare Not Warfare!

Sunday, January 25, 2009

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Healthcare Not Warfare!

The amount of global resources devoted to war indicates that our primary goal is to destroy ourselves.

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Appeal from Gaza – Please Help Us!

Thursday, January 1, 2009

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Appeal from Gaza – Please Help Us!

by Mahmoud -- At 3:30 am, I can still hear bombs exploding all over Gaza.

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Engels and the WHO Report

Monday, September 1, 2008

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Engels and the WHO Report

On August 28, the World Health Organization announced that "INEQUALITIES ARE KILLING PEOPLE ON A GRAND SCALE." Has anything changed since the 19th Century? Find out in this fictional interview with Frederick Engels.

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Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

Sunday, May 18, 2008

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Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray those who protest 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.

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Where’s the Justice?

Saturday, September 1, 2007

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Where’s the Justice?

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

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Mothers Betrayed

Saturday, May 5, 2007

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Mothers Betrayed

Capitalism celebrates mothers in theory and deprives them in practice.

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Health and Social Policy

Tuesday, June 1, 1999

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Health and Social Policy

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.

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The Myth of Scarcity, Managed Care and Modern Malthusians

Friday, January 1, 1999

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The Myth of Scarcity, Managed Care and Modern Malthusians

The myth of scarcity is used to limit access to medical care and other social services. In reality, society has more than enough resources to meet human needs.

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