Health care is essential, and no American should be without insurance to pay for it. But prevention of diseases and injuries is as important as treating them. Since Americans live in a big company town where their banks keep them indebted and paying debt servicing and Big Agro uses them as storage bins into which […]
Low Life Expectancy tracks with Opposition to Obamacare (Map)
Life expectancy in the United States by state (2009 statistics): Hawaii has the longest life expectancy among the states, so maybe Obama thought it isn’t normal for people to drop dead young the way they do in South Carolina. (About a fourth of South Carolinians lack health care insurance, and the local elite is committed […]
Patriotism and PTSD (Levinson)
Nan Levinson writes at Tomdispatch.com: Mad, Bad, Sad What’s Really Happened to America’s Soldiers By Nan Levinson “PTSD is going to color everything you write,” came the warning from a stepmother of a Marine, a woman who keeps track of such things. That was in 2005, when post-traumatic stress disorder, a.k.a. PTSD, wasn’t getting much […]
Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in direction of Sub-Saharan Africa
Well, we dodged the bullet of looking like Zimbabwe on this issue. But we still need a single payer system. And the court exempting states from medicaid expansion could leave millions uninsured. (From this site, though I made some changes; China, e.g., at least tries to provide health care to its citizens; and Iraq is […]
Supreme Courts and Democracy in Egypt, Pakistan and the United States
As the US Supreme Court rules on the universal health care plan, it is worth considering that all of a sudden the courts are playing an outsized role in the aftermath of the fall of the dictators in the Greater Middle East. One of the concomitants of the outbreak of parliamentary democracy in the Greater […]
Supreme Court declines to take US Health Care in Direction of Sub-Saharan Africa (Map)
Well, we dodged the bullet of looking like Zimbabwe on this issue. But we still need a single payer system. And the court exempting states from medicaid expansion could leave millions uninsured. (From this site, though I made some changes; China, e.g., at least tries to provide health care to its citizens; and Iraq is […]
Graphs of Death: US Drone Strikes Visualized (Pegg)
David Pegg writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism These graphs accurately reflect the Bureau’s data on CIA drone strikes in Pakistan to the most recent strike. They are designed to illustrate in the simplest possible way key statistical data from our investigation. Click on a graph to enlarge. You are free to download and […]
Global Warming and Colorado’s Great Fire
Weather is specific events, climate is the long-term pattern. Catastrophes like the forest fire in Colorado that has expelled 32,000 people from their homes are the results of weather. But long-term climate change can increase the likelihood of such events. That is, we may have a big, wet snow in Colorado some winter in the […]
Letter to President Obama on Yemen: More Aid, Fewer Drones, Please
The Atlantic Council and The Project on Middle East Democracy are worried about the drift in Obama administration policy on Yemen, about the lack of attention to urgent development and humanitarian issues there, and about the indiscriminate use of drones, which are likely to do more harm than good. So they did up a five-page […]
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