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...Sunday, February 1, 2009
by Mahmoud Abu Aisha - When I used to write about the victims of Israeli crimes, I never imagined that one day I’d be writing about the unbearable misery of my own family.
Continue reading...Sunday, January 25, 2009
The amount of global resources devoted to war indicates that our primary goal is to destroy ourselves.
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 7, 2009
by Patricia Campbell -- On December 31, the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme building was destroyed by Israeli bomber jets.
Continue reading...Thursday, January 1, 2009
by Mahmoud -- At 3:30 am, I can still hear bombs exploding all over Gaza.
Continue reading...Sunday, November 23, 2008
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...Thursday, October 9, 2008
Our hopes and dreams for a better life do not fit in their ballot boxes
Continue reading...Sunday, October 5, 2008
As America slips deeper into crisis, liberal efforts to preserve the capitalist system counter socialist efforts to replace it.
Continue reading...Sunday, May 18, 2008
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.
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.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
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