Health
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Rise of Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq: World Health Organization Refuses to Release Data
The joint WHO and Iraqi Ministry of Health Report on cancers and birth defect in Iraq was originally due to be released in November 2012. It has been delayed repeatedly and now has no release date whatsoever. Continue reading
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Labour-controlled Welsh Assembly carries out massive attack on the National Health Service By Mark Blackwood and Ajanta Silva
The Labour Party-controlled Welsh Assembly has carried out a massive attack on the National Health Service (NHS), entirely in line with the UK Conservative-Liberal Democrat government’s austerity agenda. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 10 July 2013: Obama As Drone Ranger, Tim Wise Stamps Anti-Racist Ghetto Passes for TFA, If Zimmerman Goes Free
10 July 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The U.S. War Against the World by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The DNA of finance capitalism has foreordained its death – and soon. To forestall that inevitability, the U.S. war machine is prepared to turn out the lights on much of Continue reading
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Immigrants to be charged for non-emergency health care in Britain By Jordan Shilton
The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition has revealed plans that would compel general practitioners (GPs) to refuse to treat “ineligible” immigrants on the National Health Service (NHS) unless the immigrants have paid a £200 annual charge. Behind the proposal to charge immigrants to access the NHS is the drive to completely eliminate free access to public health… Continue reading
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NHS is not safe with UK coalition government: Poll
According to the YouGov survey for the campaign group 38 Degrees, more than two-thirds of the NHS workers think the coalition government’s reforms have had a negative impact on patient care. Continue reading
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Open Letter by UK Doctors on Health and Safety of Wi-Fi, Mobile Phones
There is growing concern that chronic (long-term) exposure to radiofrequency/microwave radiation from wireless technologies causes damage, particularly genetic damage, cognitive damage, cancer and decreased fertility. There is now substantial evidence of a link between mobile phone use and brain cancer. This was recognised by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)’s 30-strong panel of… Continue reading
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British NHS watchdog promotes privatisation By Barry Mason
The report that the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), suppressed one of its own investigative reports is the latest scandal to hit the organisation, whose supposed aim is to protect health and social care standards. Continue reading
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The MPs with a finger in the health service pie By Will Stone
As each year goes by it’s becoming more and more difficult to say that Britain’s health service is entirely publicly funded and free at the point of use. Continue reading
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Everything you wanted to know about the NHS crisis, but were too afraid to ask By John Lister
Since 2000 successive Westminster governments have used it as a test-bed for experiments with untried “reforms” aimed to transform it from a public health care system into a “market” – little more than a fund of taxpayers’ money to buy services from a range of public and private providers. Continue reading
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Book Review: Our NHS on the brink By Bernadette Hyland
Edited by Raymond Tallis and Dr Jacky Davis, ‘NHS SOS: How the NHS was betrayed – and how we can save it’ it is a difficult book to read. In chapter after chapter we see the way in which determined neoliberals have hacked away at a cherished British institution. Davis and her co-writers do not… Continue reading
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UK-NHS: Traitorous trade union actions! By Ellis Wynne
Unite trade union, in collaboration with health managers, has forced through pay cuts of up to £6,000 a year against 60 pathology staff at Salford Royal Hospital National Health Trust Laboratory. Continue reading
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‘Shocking incompetence’: UK health officials threw away £74m of bird flu ‘wonder-drug’
UK’s Department of Health threw away £74m worth of Tamiflu, the antiviral drug, before its expiry date, due to unsafe storage procedures. In total the country has spent £600 million since 2006 on drugs to fight a flu pandemic that has not materialized. Continue reading
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Video: How Class Works – Richard Wolff Examines Class
Richard Wolff is an economist who has studied class issues for more than 40 years. In this animation and audio presentation, Wolff explains what class is all about and applies that understanding to the foreclosure crisis of 2007–2011. He argues that class concerns the “way our society splits up the output [and] leaves those who… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for April 17, 2013: Waking Up With an Obama-Ache, Obama & The Class War
17 April 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Big Nausea: Waking Up With an Obama-Ache by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Who will defend the indefensible Obama? Answer: There will be fewer and fewer Obamapologists, as each day passes. “For the monumentally dysfunctional Black Misleadership Class, the winding down Continue reading
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Excerpts from HLLN complaint against the US/Obama occupational forces for bringing cholera to Haiti | End the killing and illegal US occupation of Haiti behind UN guns
“The accused UN cannot investigate itself” – Ezili Dantò, Oct 30, 2010 interview with Yves Point Du Jour Continue reading
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The health hurricane: a year of destruction in the NHS By Alex Nunn
It is almost a year since the controversial Health and Social Care Act was passed in March 2012. At the time, campaigners issued apocalyptic warnings that it would break up the health service, allowing the NHS to be offered up for privatisation bit by bit. A year on that fear is being realised at breathtaking… Continue reading
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Her Majesty’s “Post Imperial” Government in Crisis: Prime Minister Cameron in Blunderland By Felicity Arbuthnot
Public anger and resentment is palpably mounting against pretty well all policies in a government seen as completely blind to the reality in Britain’s villages, towns and cities. Continue reading
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The Age of the Siege: Sanctions Are An Act Of War by Felicity Arbuthnot
The siege of Leningrad is still considered the most lethal siege in world history, a shocking “racially motivated starvation policy”, described as: “an integral part of Nazi policy in the Soviet Union during World War 11.” Sieges now extend to entire countries, they have become the torture before the destruction. And they are not counted… Continue reading
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