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The Abortion Rights Movement Must Now Turn to Grassroots Organizing and Direct Action
Millions of people are pissed off and ready to fight for reproductive freedom — and they aren’t looking to the Democrats to save them
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Experts Are Worried About the Potential of Another Brutal COVID Winter
Let us find our way to the new year without walking on a road of bones, again
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One great difference between the two epidemics and their consequences is that Covid-19 killed far more people
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Democratic Leaders Don’t Fear Their Own Base. They Should
Democrats have reneged on their longtime promise to codify Roe v. Wade every time they’ve held power
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Voting Harder Won’t Bring Back Roe
We need an abortion rights movement that organizes beyond individual elections and fights for reproductive freedom as part of a federal universal health plan
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The Supreme Court Is Waging a Full-Scale War on Modern Life
The project that the conservative majority has undertaken is far more extreme than just going back to pre-Roe
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Yes, the death of Roe is ‘that bad’
The bastards did it, Roe v. Wade is dead, and anyone telling you it won’t be ‘that bad’ is lying to you.
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Roe overturned: What you need to know about the Supreme Court abortion decision
The Supreme Court’s rolling back a right that has been recognized for 50 years puts the U.S. in the minority of nations
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The Fight for Abortion Rights in Post-Roe America
Without federal abortion protections, both the public and elected leaders must act to safeguard reproductive rights
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80+ US Prosecutors Vow Not to Be Part of Criminalizing Abortion Care
"Criminalizing and prosecuting individuals who seek or provide abortion care makes a mockery of justice"
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US For-Profit Health System Is a Mass Killer
We could stop murdering our own population en masse by adopting a single-payer healthcare
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In Abortion Safe Havens, Organizers Prepare to Assist Those Fleeing Restrictions
“There are a lot of strong local groups but not a lot of national coordination.”
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Big Tobacco Is Funding Opposition to Global Covid Vaccine Access
Tobacco companies are bankrolling a group that is working to defeat an intellectual property waiver. And the companies have a direct interest in doing so
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Flawed WTO Proposal on Vaccine Patents ‘Worse Than None at All’
The text proposed by rich nations, "is nothing more than a PR stunt intended to kill off the possibility of a genuine intellectual property waiver."
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How American Influencers Built a World Wide Web of Vaccine Disinformation
65 percent of vaccine disinformation on Facebook and Twitter came from just 12 people
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‘People Over Pentagon’ Proposal
"How come when it comes to funding the Pentagon, no one asks how are we going to pay for it, but when it comes to funding healthcare, suddenly the government is poor?"
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Civil Society Slams Rich Nations for Acting as Big Pharma ‘Henchmen’
"We are deeply concerned that rich nations are negotiating to protect the interests of pharmaceutical corporations... whatever the cost to public health"
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I’ve Been in School Mental Health for 10 Years. My Heart Is Breaking Right Now.
As a culture, we have unceremoniously dumped the aftershocks of fear, loss, economic stress, uncertainty and isolation into the laps of thinly stretched professionals
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Trump wanted to privatize Medicare. Biden’s letting it happen
The Trump administration initiated a program that critics say will pave the way for the total privatization of Medicare. Biden is quietly letting that program continue
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30,000 People Have Died Each Day WTO Dragged Its Feet on Vaccine Patents
"If the world had acted immediately then many of these people could still be alive today."
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Two new books reveal the distortion of the U.S. health care system by financial operators
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Cancer Is an Environmental Problem
Why federal funding for cancer research must examine its human-made causes
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US COVID response: War and profiteering remains the priority
The US, which is the richest country in the world, has the highest official death toll from COVID anywhere globally
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The Anti-Abortion Movement Weaponizes Women Against Women
Anti-abortion women perpetuate the idea that women’s lives are about deference and self-sacrifice. But women must help one another see ourselves as human first
Zmag
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25 Years of GMOs, and Some New Insights from Argentina
The book, Seeds of Power, offers important insights on the complex dynamics of power and compliance and how they can play out in a broad national context
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Your Privileges Are Not Universal
We praise the hopes and struggles of the people, whose desire to advance history will cut through your repression
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The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality
Poor, dark-skinned people should not be made to die when their lives can be saved by a simple vaccine, which is available in abundance
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Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021
Global problems of this scale require global cooperation
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Honest Government Ad | Hotel Quarantine & Vaccines
The Australien Government has made an ad about its hotel quarantine and vaccines policies, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
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How to Pass the Salt While Maintaining Proper Social Distance
Solving everyday problems using familiar objects in unfamiliar ways
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People Are Suffering ‘In A Way We Have Not Seen Since The Great Depression’
ndependent Senator Bernie Sanders discusses the need for Congress to pass a new coronavirus stimulus bill and the importance of the upcoming Senate race in Georgia
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Interview on the lessons we're learning during this historic period, Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, and why the liberals are going to get us all killed
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There are 30,000 Cuban medical professionals currently serving in more than 60 countries
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Revival of U.S. Movement for Single Payer
Jack Rasmus interviews Mark Dudzic, National Coordinator of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer HealthCare (aka Medicare for All), on the recently re-energized and growing national movement for Single Payer-National Healthcare
Blogs
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Family Farm Diabetes: Foodies, Farm Justice “Allies” and “The Big Hog”
(Regarding this blog, see also the recent blog by Jen...
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Bittman Bashing Butter: And Beyond: A Re-Buttal
NOTE: Since the article reviewed here, (i.e. 2 years later)...
Books
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The Energy Glut: Climate Change and the Politics of Fatness
About the Book World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight...
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Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World
This brilliant new book from the author of Nickel and...
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Body Hunters: How the Drug Industry Tests Its Products On the World`s Poorest Patients
Foreword by John Le Carre Winner, Prix Prescrire 2008 Library...
