Issues / Health

  • AIDS in Africa and Black America

    Column

    By Kwei Quartey, October 11, 2012

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    The United States should take a lesson from Africa in dealing with its AIDS epidemic.

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  • Agent Orange on Okinawa: The Smoking Gun

    Commentary

    By Jon Mitchell, October 8, 2012

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    A recently discovered U.S. army report puts lie to the Pentagon's denials that it exposed soldiers and civilians to Agent Orange on Okinawa.

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  • Destroying the Commons

    Commentary

    By Noam Chomsky, July 31, 2012

    Dr. Chomsky analyzes how the Magna Carta has become largely irrelevant in the world as the document nears its one thousandth birthday.

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  • WHO Under Siege From Private Sector

    Commentary

    By Tom Fawthrop, May 9, 2012

    This article examines the greater role that private sector actors are playing in the WHO and its negative impact on the capacity of the organization to fulfill its commitment.

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  • Psychologists and Torture, Then and Now

    Commentary

    By Laura Melendez-Pallitto and Robert Pallitto, March 1, 2012

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    U.S. psychologists cast ethics aside when they forged relationships with the state to aid in torture.

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  • Obama Requests Slightly Higher Aid Levels for 2013

    Commentary

    By Jim Lobe, February 20, 2012

    President Obama's new budget requests an increase in State Department funding, but simultaneously decreases funds vital for humanitarian, health, and other aid groups.

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  • The Under-Examined Story of Fallujah

    Column

    By Hannah Gurman, November 23, 2011

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    Although you're unlikely to have read about it in the press, the ongoing health crisis in Fallujah shows that the legacy of the U.S. war in Iraq is far from over.

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