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Howard Zinn: Anarchism Shouldn't Be a Dirty Word

Listening to Grasshoppers - Genocide, Denial and Celebration

Victory Speakers For Climate Crisis

How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness

Can Sex Workers and Transvestites Change the World?

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.)

The Power of Language

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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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By Layla Anwar --

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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 your “surgical” air raids, you may find a little leg or a little head...pleading for your attention.

Come and see them amassed in the garbage dumps, scavenging morsels of food...

Well over half of our little ones are under nourished or dying from disease. Cholera, disentery, infections of all sorts....

Under nourished does not mean on a diet like your fat little kids. It means not having food to eat. It means cannot find food to eat. It means starved.

Come and see, come....

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HOW DO THEY DO THAT?

Regarding making money in the speculative markets:

"As to how to make money? Well, it is basically theft, misrepresentation, lies, cheating, deception or force. It is impossible to make the staggering amounts made in derivatives in good years honestly."

From the back cover of "Traders,
Guns & Money: Knowns and unknowns
in the dazzling world of derivatives."

What actually determines who will have adequate food, water, shelter, sanitation, clean air, and medical care and who shall not? Two articles that have appeared recently that shed some interesting light on this question:

(1) The Great Oil Swindle, by Mike Whitney

(2) Financial Speculators Reap Profits From Global Hunger,
by Stefan Steinberg

These articles suggest that it all happens in financial markets -- far from the prying eyes of ordinary people who find that they are suddenly evicted from their house, that they are unable to feed their families, that they are unable to pay for the oil they need to keep warm in the winter, or that they are unable to access the health care that they need for survival. It would seem that the events that have such dire consequences would appear in headlines, and be explained in articles so that ordinary people could understand the implications of such events.

Continued -- click here.

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.