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The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth

The Politics of the Homosexual Role

Dismantling the Infrastructure

Everything We Think About Schooling Is Wrong!

Tortured Memories and the Culture of War

The Choice Is Yours

In this column Gregor Wolbring raises questions about where we are going with our new technologies. He believes that marginalized people must be included in the discourse if negative consequences are to be avoided. (Reprinted from Innovation Watch.)

State of the Future 2010

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Globalization

Why should progressives support globalization? Read this article for an overview of our philosophy of values oriented pragmatism" and why it suggests the need for a global perspective.

"YOU CAN'T TURN BACK THE DAWN"

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Setting the Earth Free

"Humanity, in its current state of hubris and alienation, believes that only people are fully conscious, autonomous and capable of purposeful action. The rest of reality is machine like – devoid of life, purpose or consciousness. It is this view of reality that gives rise to totalistic technology."

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The Village Health Worker: Lackey or Liberator?

Breaking The Grip of Globalization On Poverty-Related Ill-Health

Empowerment and Health

Health and Equity: Need for a People's Perspective in the Quest for World Health

Evaluating Cuba's Pilot Project in Community Based Rehabilitation

Communications As If People Mattered

Primary Health Care and the Temptation of Excellence: What We Learned From Maria

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The Radical Edge

Radical means going to the "root" of an issue. We have put these articles here not because we necessarily agree with all that their authors say, but because we believe they challenge us to examine our fundamental assumptions about health, politics and society.