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• Germanos: Expanded Global Gag Rule

  Trump Escalates Attack on Healthcare, Women
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  Fisk: When military wars end, medical ones begin

  Tissue samples from the three-week 2008-2009 Israeli-Hamas Gaza war shows remnants of heavy metals in the wounds of Palestinians which can lead to cancers
• Meadows-Fernandez: The Oppressive History of the Birth Industry

  Acknowledging the whiteness of the birth industry means coming to terms with this fact and finding a way to transform an anti-Black institution
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  Pearson: Chocolate as Resistance

  Mexico’s Rich Chocolate Traditions Defy Corporate Globalization
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  Cole: GOP Greatest Threat to Mothers

  Insurance companies in the US before Obamacare considered the male body the default
• DeMoro: Marquis de Sade Health Care

  The atrocious Trumpcare bill undermines Medicaid, employer-based coverage, and so much else
• Davies: Big Pharma’s pollution creating deadly superbugs

  Environmental standards do not feature in international regulations governing drug production
• Sedacca: Your Life Is Worth About $10,000

  Why most of the tobacco epidemic remains in our future
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  Goodman: Pigs Don’t Fly but Their Feces Do

  Despite the enormous impact on so many residents, factory farming has its loyal defenders in the North Carolina Legislature
• DeVega: The party of death

  New data and the health care debate reveal how Republicans feel about poor people who get sick: They think they deserve it
• McCauley: Hey, hey, say Goodbye (in Next Election)

  The condemnations poured in, with vows that voters will seek retribution come 2018, when many of them will be up for re-election
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  Fletcher: 70 Million Africans In Danger of Famine

  We tend to believe that famine is primarily the result of natural disaster, but the African countries affected by famine are all ones that have all been severely affected by political instability and war
• Kamal: 20 Million Could ‘Starve to Death’ Within Six Months

  Urgent action is needed to save the lives of people facing famine in North Eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen
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  Mokhiber: Single-Payer and Obama-care

  It’s impossible to promote single payer and defend Obamacare at the same time
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  Cockburn: Mental health patients treated as criminals

  The old asylum system was dismantled but nothing was put in its place to care for people unable to look after themselves who are a potential danger to themselves and others
• Leopold: Young People Want Radical Change

  Survey Blows the Lid off Right-Wing and Corporate Economic Propaganda
• Slee: Chasing the Scream

  The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
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  Hedges: A Nation of the Walking Dead

  The corporate state will expand our access to a variety of opioids and numbing situations to temporarily alleviate our stress, financial dislocations, depression and anxiety
• Schwarz: Trumpcare Is Dying

  Now Let’s Kill the Insane Ideology Behind It
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  Weisbrot: Medicaid saved ObamaCare

  The economic case for universal, single-payer health care has long been irrefutable