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The War On Drugs -- The Facts The facts relevant to the War On Drugs are too extensive and complex to be summarized in a simple list. For a well organized set of fact sheets regarding the War On Drugs the reader is referred to the book “D...text/html2008-06-18T16:22:00+01:00anonymous@71.241.208.182talkingpoints:rain
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Facts about the rainforest Help Save The Rainforest Often described as the Earth’s lungs, only in reverse, the tropical rainforests, take in vast quantities of carbon dioxide (a poisonous gas which mammals exhale) and through the process of p...text/html2008-06-10T00:27:29+01:00anonymous@71.241.208.182main:choose
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MUST WE CHOOSE BETWEEN VIOLENCE AND IRRELEVANCE? by Jay Edson The Arundhati Roy article In her essay “Listening to Grasshoppers...” (see the current article in “What’s New”), Arundhati Roy describes the genoci...text/html2008-06-10T00:21:48+01:00anonymous@71.241.208.182main:past_editorials
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Past Editorials Must We Choose Between Violence and Relevance The Value Of Modestly Trained Health Workers The Fundamental Mistake of Civilized Life Help Poor Farmers in U.S. and Global South The Conversation That Wasn't Nature Has A Mind Of ...text/html2008-06-09T23:38:40+01:00anonymous@71.241.208.182cont
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Continued from the home page But outside of newspapers that specifically cater to the economic elite, articles about futures, contracts, options, housing bubbles, derivatives, hedge funds, degrees of financial leverage, swaps, the financial regulat...text/html2008-06-09T22:39:49+01:00anonymous@71.241.208.182speculators
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Financial Speculators Reap Profits From Global Hunger By Stefan Steinberg April 28, 2008 WSWS.org A series of reports in the international media have drawn attention to the role of professional speculators and hedge funds in driving up the pri...text/html2008-06-09T22:26:46+01:00anonymous@71.241.208.182swindle
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The Great Oil Swindle How much did the Fed really know? By Mike Whitney Information Clearing House 30/05/08 The Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating trading in oil futures to determine whether the surge in price...text/html2008-04-29T21:13:03+01:00anonymous@71.241.213.106main:modestly_trained
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The Value Of Modestly Trained Health Workers “What’s been killing our babies is modern medical care.” by David Werner January 2008 In an exchange visit to the Philippines several years ago, our group of village health workers from Latin Ameri...text/html2008-04-11T23:06:35+01:00anonymous@71.241.213.106main:venezuela
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Note by HealthWrights Staff We are pleased to offer this first-hand account of the health care system in Venezuela. The bottom line seems to be that under the leadership of Hugo Chavez, millions of citizens are receiving adequate health care for...text/html2008-04-11T22:51:30+01:00anonymous@71.241.213.106main:drugs_--_legal_and_illegal
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Drugs -- Legal & Illegal The division of drugs into those that are helpful and those that are harmful, and the related division into legal and illegal drugs, is, perhaps, somewhat arbitrary. Most illegal drugs have legal medical uses, and even...text/html2008-04-11T22:48:04+01:00anonymous@71.241.213.106main:radiation
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The Radiation Poisoning Of America By Amy Worthington Global Research, October 9, 2007 Idaho Observer - 2007-10-07 Prior to 1996, the wireless age was not coming online fast enough, primarily because communities had the authority to block the...text/html2008-04-11T22:29:09+01:00anonymous@71.241.213.106main:ecology
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Ecology The Connection to Health The Ecology of the earth is the creative matrix out of which all living organisms evolve, and by which they are sustained. The term “matrix” comes from the Latin word that means “womb.” ...text/html2008-04-11T22:25:29+01:00anonymous@71.241.213.106main:democracy
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Democracy Cartoon by Kirk Currently, only 49 of the world’s 100 biggest economies are nations; 51 are transnational corporations. To a large extent the giant corporations – with their military base of power in the United States – do i...text/html2008-04-10T23:08:41+01:00anonymous@71.241.213.106main:end_empire
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Note by HealthWrights staff As the article below makes clear, in the 1980s and 1990s those who believed that the US should be the head of a world empire gained almost complete control of the country. They talked of “full spectrum hegemon...text/html2008-03-19T22:30:28+01:00anonymous@71.241.213.106main:grasshoppers
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Listening to Grasshoppers -Genocide, Denial and Celebration Arundhati Roy etalat February, 2008 In the state of Gujarat, there was genocide against the Muslim community in 2002. I use the word Genocide advisedly, and in keeping with its def...text/html2008-03-05T23:24:36+01:00anonymous@71.241.213.106main:global_economics
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Global Economics The Connection to Health In today’s globalized world, the health of literally billions of people is closely tied to economics. Major forces in economics today include the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the ...text/html2008-03-05T22:49:06+01:00anonymous@71.241.213.106main:warming
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Note by HealthWrights Staff The fact of global warming is certainly not new. What may be new is how quickly it is happening, and how close we are to setting in motion a positive feed-back loop that will be impossible to stop, regardless of what...text/html2008-01-29T18:25:54+01:00anonymous@71.241.213.106welcome
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By Layla Anwar -- An excerpt Come and see our overflowing morgues and find our little ones for us... You may find them in this corner or the other, a little hand poking out, pointing out at you... Come and search for them in the rubbles of you...text/html2008-01-16T21:54:53+01:00anonymous@71.241.215.141main:partnerships
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Partnerships for Empowerment in Occupational Therapy Address by David Werner Annual Conference of the New York State Occupational Therapy Association New York, NY, August 27, 2006 Abstract: David Werner evokes the health goals formulat...text/html2008-01-15T16:14:09+01:00anonymous@71.241.215.141radiation
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Our Carcinogenic Institutions: Note by HealthWrights staff In this article we see that a variety of cancers and other illnesses are the direct outcome of a combination of unregulated technology and unregulated capitalism. The connections betwe...