Health

(Human Rights Watch) – The Trump administration’s broad sanctions on Iran have drastically constrained the ability of the country to finance humanitarian imports. (Washington, DC) – The Trump administration’s broad sanctions on Iran have drastically constrained the ability of the country to finance humanitarian imports, including medicines, causing serious hardships for ordinary Iranians and threatening […]

Health

In the Billionaires’ America, Inequality Is Literally Killing Us

Sam Pizzigati

( Otherwords.org) – Again and again, studies show that the richer wealthy Americans become, the shorter the rest of us live. What do the folks at the U.S. Census Bureau do between the census they run every 10 years? All sorts of annual surveys, on everything from housing costs to retail sales. The most depressing […]

Fracking

Stop It! Fracking Can’t be Done in a way that doesn’t Threaten Human Life

OtherWords

By Barbara Gottlieb | – Over 1,500 reports show there’s simply no safe way to do it — and it’s harming us all every day it goes on. Science. Evidence. Facts. Do these even matter anymore in U.S. policy? They should — especially when it comes to issues that affect our health and environment, like […]

Epidemics

America’s Suicide Epidemic is Hitting Trump’s Base Hard

Rajan Menon

(Tomdispatch.com) – We hear a lot about suicide when celebrities like Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade die by their own hand. Otherwise, it seldom makes the headlines. That’s odd given the magnitude of the problem. In 2017, 47,173 Americans killed themselves. In that single year, in other words, the suicide count was nearly seven times […]

Health Care

America’s Sick Health Care System: Even if you Survive the Malady, the Co-Pays will Kill You

Tomdispatch

By Beverly Gologorsky | – (Tomdispatch.com ) – On this extremely hot summer day, the ear-splitting siren screaming through New York’s streets is coming from the ambulance I’m in — on a gurney on my way to the ER. That only makes the siren, loud as it is, all the more alarming. I fell. The […]

Bernie Sanders

How Bernie Sanders trounced Fox on Medicare for All, and why a Carbon Tax could help Pay for It

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bernie Sanders trounced Fox News on its own turf when he demonstrated that the town hall audience assembled for him by the pro-plutocrat White Nationalist channel was enthusiastic about medicare for all. The Young Turks: “Bernie Schools Fox News on Medicare For All” This outcome should not have surprised anyone, […]

Health Care

The Measure of our Happiness: Our Miserable Plutocracy

H. Patricia Hynes

For the past seven years ago, the United Nations has issued a report titled the World Happiness Report. While this report may sound somewhat lightweight, it actually ranks countries by serious measures including income, freedom, trust in government, social support, life expectancy and how happy citizens perceive themselves to be. The highest-ranking countries are those, […]

Health Care

Trump is Coming for your Health Care, Will Re-institute Exclusion for Pre-Existing Conditions

AFP

By Sebastian Smith Washington, DC (AFP) – US President Donald Trump’s administration vowed Tuesday to see Obamacare — a massive, but controversial reform intended to bring health care to more Americans — struck down. Top Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway said the policy, which became law after a fierce legislative battle under then president Barack Obama, […]