How Ebola Is Breaking The Aversion To Using Experimental Drugs
When there’s a health epidemic, here’s how innovation often happens: Lives are tragically lost, then wall-to-wall media coverage leads to public hysteria and then drug companies respond by racing to...
View ArticleThe American Crisis
The near instantaneous reemergence of antique Cold Warriors in response to the ‘crisis’ in Crimea is clear indication that they were never far from the front lines of U.S. foreign policy. The history...
View ArticleCapitalism and Income Inequality
A lot has been written in recent years in the liberal / progressive press about ‘income inequality,’ the unequal distribution of income and wealth in Western capitalist democracies. President Barack...
View ArticleTechnology and Economic Imperialism
The oft called ‘knowledge’ economy brought into being in the ‘developed’ West in the 1990s is composed of several industries that are broadly related but also quite specific unto themselves– artificial...
View ArticleEbola Was Not the Only Factor That Killed Duncan
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling The family of the first person to die of Ebola in the U.S. has a right to be upset. Especially since Ebola was just one of several factors which caused...
View ArticleMass Incarceration and Capitalism
With no public acknowledgement of the irony the U.S., the ‘land of the free,’ has both the highest incarceration rate in the world and the largest overall prison population. The dominant public...
View ArticleEbola, the African Union and Bioeconomic Warfare
As the Ebola outbreak rages, and there are projections of more than 1.4 million persons infected in the next few months, the African Union and the regional bloc ECOWAS have taken a back seat as the...
View ArticleMoney and Income Inequality
Part of the challenge of addressing political economy is the different realms that economic and philosophical discourse exist in. Western (capitalist) economics can be informed by history but it can’t...
View ArticleThe Origins of the Ebola Crisis
Tariq Ali: Today we are going to discuss medicine and what is going on in Africa but not just there, in other parts of the world too, and how privatised medicine is now dominating the field except in a...
View ArticleThe Curse of Privatization
“Obamacare,” the felicitous handle to disguise corporate pre-emption of the ideological-political-structural ground which deals with what should be viewed as a justifiable, humane entitlement affecting...
View ArticleBe a Healer
Mass hysteria breaks out in a "treeless, glamour-less, and soulless" city when thousands of rats stream in bearing a plague. At first, the citizens who "work hard, but solely with the object of getting...
View ArticleSay Goodbye to Social Security
In a New York Times editorial () written in 1993 the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith made a point that seems to have been lost on subsequent generations—many in the economic elite benefit from...
View ArticleEbola outbreak: Are we failing our medical heroes?
Add comment Reprints + - Dr. Craig Spencer reaches for Dr. Laura Evans, his chief caregiver, on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014, during a news conference at Bellevue Hospital Center as he was released from the...
View ArticleCapitalism and Economic Imperialism
With ‘recovery’ the dominant economic theme in the capitalist media the unqualified inference is we all benefit. Left out is the fundamental tension of capitalism—profits care not whether they derive...
View ArticleEbola isn’t the big one. So what is? And are we ready for it?
Humanity is locked in a millennia-old battle to the death with diseases. The current outbreak of Ebola reminds us that as our cities get bigger and international travel easier, the risks in an outbreak...
View ArticleTreating Ebola
As a historian of epidemics, I study contagious crises from the safe distance of a century or more. But as a physician watching the spread of deadly Ebola, I have been agonizing over my responsibility...
View ArticleShould we be worried about ebola becoming airborne? (University of Sydney)
(Source: University of Sydney) Should we be worried about ebola becoming airborne? By Professor Dominic Dwyer, Clinical Professor, University of Sydney Western Clinical School 14 October 2014...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Vladimir Putin on Ebola
Dear Mr. Putin, It is very odd to write you, but you have been a sane presence in a world the Western elite is tearing apart, and I am so deeply grateful. I am writing now because I have children and...
View ArticleEbola decimates Duncan’s neighborhood in Liberia
Nine neighbors of Thomas Eric Duncan already have died or are dying in the Block C area along 72 SKD Boulevard in Monrovia, CNN reported Monday. Duncan, whose death was announced by Texas Presbyterian...
View ArticleHealth-care worker in Dallas has Ebola
Dr. Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control, said Sunday morning on the CBS program “Face the Nation” that the infected health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital...
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