Topic: Less of What We Don’t Need
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Erasing Flint’s Water Crisis: Or How to Lie With Statistics
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Mark Twain famously wrote that “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” This insight is relevant to examining the apologetics of modern-day academics in the rising neoliberal assault on the public. This subservience to power is evident in efforts to rationalize governmental attacks on the most basic of human needs: access…
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An Engineer, an Economist, and an Ecomodernist Walk Into a Bar and Order a Free Lunch . . .
Humanity’s and the Earth’s prospects have been dimming for the past year and a half. But they’ve been bleak for a long time; as little was being done about the global ecological crisis before January 2017 as has been done since. Neither then nor now has the national or world power structure acknowledged that deep…
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Trump’s Space Force: Military Profiteering’s Final Frontier
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Harvey Wasserman analyzes Trump's call for a space Force
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Scientists Have Found a Disturbing Link Between Suicide Rates And Climate Change
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Are there mental-health consequences of climate change?
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More Recycling Won’t Solve Plastic Pollution
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Encouraging individuals to recycle more will never solve the problem of a massive production of single-use plastic that should have been avoided in the first place.
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Protect our national forests from an increase in logging
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A few weeks ago, my wife and I were backpacking on the Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail along Rock Creek in McCreary County when we came across a fellow hiker who’d traveled from Indiana to hike Kentucky’s long trail. After some talk of footwear choices and blisters, she remarked on the astounding beauty of the…
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State of the Climate – It’s Alarming!
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Stuart Scott of Climate Matters.TV recently interviewed Dr. Peter Wadhams, emeritus professor, Polar Ocean Physics, Cambridge University and author of the acclaimed highly recommended: A Farewell To Ice (Oxford University Press, 2017). In response to the question “what’s your assessment of the state of the climate,” Dr. Wadhams replied: “Well, first of all, what I…
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When Cuban Polyclinics Were Born
As discontent increases with overly expensive and totally inadequate US health care, it is time to look closely at the beginnings of the modern Cuban medical system. Like the US, Cuba had unintegrated, overlapping medical institutions that failed the poor, especially black, population of the island. Though several European countries have developed health care systems…
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Birth of the Cuban Polyclinic
During the 1960s, Cuban medicine experienced changes as tumultuous as the civil rights and anti-war protests in the US. While those in western Europe and the US confronted the institutions of capitalism, Cuba faced the challenge of building a new society. The tasks of Cuban medicine differed sharply between the first and the second…
