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.
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Capitalism cannot deliver genuine health care. A real health-care system would oppose profitable practices like hazardous work, adulterated food, industrial pollution and wars of acquisition. Putting health first requires a fundamentally different social system.
Continue reading...Thursday, December 6, 2007
Human suffering should not be treated as individual and medical, but as social and political.
Continue reading...Saturday, February 17, 2007
Anger is an instinctive, automatic response to unfairness.
Continue reading...Saturday, January 6, 2007
In film and in life, the human struggle to connect conflicts with the social structures that block connection.
Continue reading...Sunday, December 31, 2006
Feeling powerless is not the same as being powerless.
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 20, 2006
We need a society based on strong social bonds, not one that tears them apart for profit.
Continue reading...Friday, September 29, 2006
What's the definition of social insanity? Treating torture as normal and branding the victim's reactions as abnormal.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
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