Ebola triggers political turmoil in U.S., Spain
In the U.S., meanwhile, nurses Nina Pham and Amber Joy Vinson both contracted Ebola treating Liberian victim Thomas Eric Duncan, despite constant reassurances by Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the...
View ArticleTime for Action at Home
At this writing, the United States has just a few confirmed cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD), including two Texas nurses who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan. Many are asking, "How can this happen in the...
View Article'Ebola czar' a no-show at House hearing on crisis
Witnesses testified that nurses were unprepared and unequipped to treat Ebola cases while the Department of Homeland Security mismanaged the millions of dollars Congress had allocated to prepare for a...
View ArticleTexas lawmakers slam Obama's Ebola effort
“Of the $10.8 billion the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates it spent in FY 2014, almost $1.4 billion went to ‘Public Health Preparedness and Response’ activities,” says the...
View ArticleThe Ebola Outbreak And The Void Left By The Absence Of Government
WASHINGTON -- Few epidemiologists are as publicly lauded as Don Francis. The longtime public health worker has toiled on multiple continents in efforts to eradicate some of the world's deadliest...
View ArticleUnderstanding Ebola (UCSF - University of California, San Francisco)
(Source: UCSF - University of California, San Francisco) Since a 2-year-old child fell ill in Guinea last December, the Ebola virus has spread through West Africa, first with an outbreak that seemed to...
View ArticleEbola and Public Health Versus the "Bottom Line"
In 1347 CE the Black Death--known as the Black Plague--struck Europe. It swept across the continent, eventually killing more than twenty million people--one third of the population. The Plague was...
View ArticleHelp Stop Ebola -- Tell Congress and the White House to Order Hospitals to...
Now that nurses, who have been sounding the alarm about Ebola for more than two months, finally have the attention of policy makers and everyone else, let's have no more excuses and take the critical...
View ArticleThe Disease We Are
This is not the Ebola piece I expected to write, when asked. Originally, I had other ideas for an insightful, level-headed exposition on the threats of irrational fear bred by ignorance, racism, and...
View ArticleDON’T LET OBAMA’S LIES ABOUT EBOLA KILL YOU
“If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.” – Bertrand Russell, 1951 “In the event that I am...
View ArticleFEMA conducts pandemic training in N.Y., N.J.
Titled “2013-14 Pandemic Influenza Continuity Exercise Strategy,” the FEMA training simulates a global pandemic of influenza that spreads from person to person, including in the U.S. The Obama...
View ArticleAn Ebola 'Czar' Won’t Stop Ebola. But What Can He Do?
All right, we have an Ebola "czar" now. Realistically, what can we expect from him, and from the U.S. response to the outbreak? So far, each new Ebola development in the United States -- from the first...
View ArticleEbola nurse moved to National Institutes of Health
The hearing was being held as the United Nations World Health Organization announced from Geneva that this week the total number of confirmed cases worldwide is expected to exceed 9,000, with deaths...
View ArticleEbola Containment?
The American value system embodies an individualist, self-indulgent, for-profit (above all else) mindset and corresponding institutionalized practice that makes the national response to the Ebola virus...
View ArticleLet the Democrats Rot
When considering elections in the U.S. the tendency is for voters to look at the issues placed in front of them rather than at history, political trajectory and who it is that chooses the issues? On...
View ArticleEbola, Capitalism and the Idea of Society
Thomas Duncan when he entered Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with Ebola. The hospital claims that he was initially turned away because important information about his condition didn’t find its way...
View ArticleEmpire or Republic: Imperial Wars and Domestic Epidemics “You Can’t Have Wars...
Washington escalates its military interventions abroad, launching simultaneous air and ground attacks in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; multiplying drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; training,...
View ArticleU.N. blames rich nations for Ebola outbreak
“Ebola emerged nearly four decades ago. Why are clinicians still empty-handed, with no vaccines and no cure?” Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, asked in a speech...
View ArticleU.S. prepared for Ebola ... 10 patients at a time
Have you wondered why Ebola patients are being sent to Omaha, Nebraska? It’s because one physician, Dr. Philip Smith, had the foresight to set up the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit after the...
View ArticleFighting Ebola: Why an African Travel Ban Won't Help the U.S.
In the wake of the revelation that the Dallas man infected with Ebola flew on United Airlines flights from Liberia, more than a few people have seized on a blunt response: Ban flights from West Africa....
View ArticleObama’s Plan for Economic Immiseration
President Barack Obama spoke at length on the economy on Wednesday in the first of what is reported to be a series of speeches he will give around the country to push his economic ‘agenda.’ A question...
View ArticleThe Political Tool of Biological Agents
"Ebola virus virion" by CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith - Public Health Image Library World War Z is coming! Or at least you would think so given the media sensationalism surrounding Ebola. But as time has shown...
View ArticleCapitalist Denial and Climate Chaos
Capitalism is a term that comes fully loaded in the Western psyche. It is a Rorschach test that brings history, ideology and personal experience to the fore. Capitalism is perceived as oppositional, as...
View ArticlePutin offers WHO experimental Ebola vaccine
“We must act wisely to prevent the spread of this disease among our population,” Putin said in the meeting Monday, according to a Voice of Russia UK report. Chan and Putin met at the official Russian...
View ArticleA Vrba Message: Jews, Ebola and Two Holocausts
by Morris Samuels There is growing concern about the multiple connections between Ebola and a US bioweapons lab at the epicenter of the outbreak in Sierre Leone. The organizations associated with the...
View ArticleThe Underreported Side of the Ebola Crisis
Amid the media accounts of the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded some significant context is largely missing from the major media reporting. Atop this list are links of the outbreak to the climate...
View ArticleThe Political Economy of Climate Change
By reports, 2012 was the The last decade was the . Even for those arguing other hypotheses also fit the warming climate, the consistency of warming, the joint probability in statistical terms, must...
View ArticleMoving From Peril to Progress
Co-authored with Terrol Graham, M.P.H. The first person treated for Ebola in the United States died last week. He had travelled to America from Liberia after helping an infected individual in his...
View ArticleCDC insists, 'We know how to stop Ebola spread'
“We know how to stop Ebola before the distribution of the disease becomes widespread,” Frieden explained in the media advisory on Saturday, the fifth day after Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with...
View ArticleAirlines on edge after Ebola nurse's flight
An Air France jet was grounded Thursday in Madrid after a Nigerian passenger showed potential Ebola symptoms. The passenger on Air France flight 1300, with 156 passengers and seven crew members on...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleHow 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...
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