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Hugo Chavez Frias: In Memory, Solidarity, Commitment to Participatory Democracy and Justice in Peace
Chavez was a bold thinker and a forceful advocate for justice.
Psychiatry Now Admits It’s Been Wrong in Big Ways – But Can It Change?
Even as the intellectual foundation for our drug-based paradigm of mental health care is collapsing, society's use of these medications is increasing.
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How a CBS Video About a Cancer Victim Misled Millions About Obamacare
A CBS report misled the public about Obamacare coverage. Maggie Mahar of Health Beat calls them on it and they pull the video. But by then the damage was …
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Why Hospitals Are Failing Civilians Who Get PTSD
More than 20 percent of civilians with traumatic injuries may develop PTSD. Surgeons and other trauma experts explain why many hospitals aren't doing anything about it.
Colonized Minds: Anti-Gay Laws in Arizona, Kansas, Uganda and Beyond
Arizona and Uganda are nine thousand miles apart, but they were side by side in the news this week, due to extremist anti-gay laws that spring from and are …
Who Is Provoking the Unrest in Ukraine? A Debate on Role of Russia, United States in Regional Crisis
Russia is vowing to keep its troops in the Ukrainian region of Crimea in what has become Moscow's biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War.
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Mark Shepard on Restoration Agriculture
What is necessary is a “systematic redesign of how we get our staple food crops,” Shepard says.
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US Prison System Resembling Huge Geriatrics Ward
Prisons across the United States are now home to thousands of senior citizens.
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Natural Gas Boom Advances With Little Study of Public Health Effects, Report Finds
A new study has underscored just how little is known about the health consequences of the natural gas boom that began a decade ago, when advances in high-volume hydraulic …
Venezuela’s Deep Political Education Means Venezuelans Will Withstand Right-Wing Protests
Your taxpayer dollars have been used to support the undemocratic overthrow of the Venezuelan government since Hugo Chavez was elected.