Thursday, April 18, 2024

‘Civil society is pretty much gone’ in Puerto Rico as White House scrambles to...

"We have to think of this as societal collapse: no power, no water, no food, no nothing."

Vulture capitalists circle above Puerto Rico prey

As people in Puerto Rico are dying and President Trump lashes out at San Juan's mayor, Bill talks with social anthropologist Yarimar Bonilla about the challenges Puerto Ricans face in the wake of the storm.

Wasted lives: The worldwide tragedy of youth suicide

Principles of goodness together with the golden seed of social justice – sharing – need to be the guiding ideals of a radically redesigned socio-economic paradigm.

Do better than a rip-off health care system

Universal care would unite our society under the essential democratic principle that we Americans really are "all in this together."

2.9 million children are threatened by toxic air pollution from oil & gas development

Living within a 1/2 mile of these production facilities is clearly correlated with negative health impacts.

Want to fix America’s health care? First, focus on food

To cut down on disease, we should make it a top nonpartisan priority to end our nation’s nutrition crisis.

Our health care system is a corporate care system

Why is our health system flailing? Because its guiding ethic is profit, not care.

Global food crops also face Earth’s sixth great mass extinction

We need to get away from a focus on ‘feeding the world’ and move toward ‘nourishing the world.’

GOP health repeal is an immoral affront to the American people

The 49 Republican Senators still lined up to vote for the bill exposing their contempt for the American people.

Protesters rise up to block health care repeal

It is clear that people in the United States will not tolerate changes that drive millions of more people off of health insurance.