(2018-09-23). China's Arch of Peace Vessel Docks in Venezuela for Health Mission. telesurtv.net A Chinese hospital ship has arrived in Venezuela as Part of the Cooperation Agreement.
(2018-09-22). Koch-Funded Think Tank at Public University Uses Private Email Server, Because Of Course It Does. theintercept.com We asked for records related to its "Medicare for All" study, and learned that the university doesn't have access to the Mercatus Center email server.
(2018-09-22). Sex Columnist Dan Savage Calls BS On the Bad Fantasies That Make Relationships Even Harder. alternet.org 
The venerable sex and love columnist points out the unhealthy "fictions" that keep us from being happier in love | Some people want to be ravished by a home intruder. Others struggle to make sense of their fetish for leather boots. Some even reckon with a sexual attraction to centaurs or sphinxes or fish-tailed demigods. As The Stranger's sex and love advice columnist, Dan Savage has been reading letters from writers like these for 27 years and affirming their f. . .
(2018-09-22). Is the Lone Star State Moving Left? truthout.org To the delight of millions of people in Texas and across the country, the odious Republican Sen. Ted Cruz finds himself in in a close race against his Democratic challenger, US Rep. Beto O'Rourke. | In Texas, where Republican zealots have dominated every statewide office for more than two decades, O'Rourke's promotion of Medicare for All, endorsement of anti-racist protests among NFL athletes and participation in marches on child detention centers are a welcome sign that Democratic politicians feel the need to address the grassroots social movements that have extended across the state. | If Cruz is out of a job following November's midterm elections, socialists and progressives will have plenty to smile about. | His defeat would serve a long-overdue humiliation in the southernmost bastion of US conservatism to a loud, bigoted clown who both constituents and non-constituents have come…
(2018-09-21). Cuts to Cancer Research, Head Start, and Women's Shelters Among $226 Million Diverted to Pay for Child Detention. mintpressnews.com 
Yahoo News reported that in order to continue detaining more than 13,000 children currently in the custody of the ORR, the Health and Human Services Secretary is proposing that up to $266 million be taken from other government health programs.
(2018-09-21). Watch: Beto O'Rourke Slams Ted Cruz for His Unquestioning Loyalty to Donald Trump. alternet.org 
At the first Texas Senate debate, Cruz tried to defend his rubber stamp for the Trump agenda. O'Rourke shamed him powerfully. | At the first Texas Senate debate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Beto O'Rourke clashed on a number of issues, from guns to health care to the fate of the federal judiciary. But on one question in particular, Cruz tried to answer for his humiliating about-face on President Donald Trump. "Senator Cruz,. . .
(2018-09-21). There's Nothing Natural About Puerto Rico's Disaster. theintercept.com 
Alma Morales Rosario poses for a portrait between the beams of her home being rebuilt after it was destroyed by Hurricane Maria one year ago in the San Lorenzo neighborhood of Morovis, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 8, 2018. | textbook example. Before those fierce winds came, the debt — illegitimate and much of it illegal — was the excuse used to ram through a brutal program of economic suffering, what the great Argentine author Rodolfo Walsh, writing about four decades earlier, famously called miseria planificada, planned misery. | This program systematically attacked the very glue that holds a society together: all levels of education, health care, the electricity and water systems, transit systems, communication networks, and more. | It was a plan so widely rejected that no elected representatives could be trusted to carry it out. Which is…
(2018-09-21). Department of Health and Human Services lost track of another 1,500 immigrant children. wsws.org In addition to the "lost" children, funds are being diverted from AIDS and cancer research to jail immigrant children and ICE held nearly 1,500 US citizens as "aliens."
(2018-09-21). Puerto Rico Has Not Recovered From Hurricane Maria. truthout.org Puerto Rico was in crisis long before Hurricane Maria hit on Sept. 20, 2017. | For years, this US territory had been struggling with debt, economic crisis and drought. In May 2017, the government defaulted on US$73 billion in loans and declared bankruptcy. | Then Hurricane Maria slammed the island with 155-mph winds and coastal flooding that rose to 6 feet within 30 minutes of landfall. The storm caused the longest power blackout in US history. | Sixty-four Puerto Ricans died during Maria and an estimated 2,975 Puerto Ricans perished from hurricane-related problems in the five months afterwards — many from treatable chronic illnesses because the power outage prevented them from getting antibiotics, insulin and other medical care. | To say that the island of 3.3 million has not yet recovered — from the damage or…
(2018-09-20). South Carolina: Two Women from Mental Health Facility Drown in Flood During Transport by Deputies. democracynow.org 
Two women being transported by sheriff's deputies to a mental health facility drowned Tuesday in South Carolina when the van they were riding in was overcome by floodwaters. The two sheriff's deputies in the vehicle survived. Forty-five-year-old Windy Newton and 43-year-old Nicolette Green are two of at least 37 people killed by Hurricane Florence since the storm made landfall. Both women had gone to hospitals Tuesday morning when they were involuntarily committed and detained. Less than 24 hours later, they were dead. "There are a lot of questions remaining about why this had to occur then, why there couldn't ha…
(2018-09-20). Chicago Hotel Workers Strike for Decent Health Care. therealnews.com 
Chicago's UNITE HERE union is engaged in one of the largest labor actions in the city in decades, for a new contract for service workers at 30 hotels, with simultaneous strikes at 26 of these. We speak to the Local 1 strike captain |
(2018-09-19). Rev. William Barber: Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court Would Endanger Rights of Women, Workers & Voters. democracynow.org 
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh have cast doubt on whether President Trump's Supreme Court nominee will be confirmed by the Senate. "The process was bad from the beginning," says Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign and president of Repairers of the Breach. "We are poised to have two presidents that did not win the popular vote, now will have appointed four extreme members to the Supreme Court." Barber says Kavanaugh will be dangerous to voting rights, to labor rights, to healthcare and to women's rights.
(2018-09-19). New Bill Would Ensure No Woman Is Forced to Give Birth in Chains. aclu.org The practice of shackling pregnant women who are incarcerated is as shocking as it is widespread. | When a woman becomes pregnant, the nature of her health care by necessity becomes tailored to her being pregnant. This is no less true when a pregnant woman is incarcerated. But corrections officials across the nation would often rather ignore the fact and needs of incarcerated pregnant women than address their health care needs or even their basic rights. For example, pregnant prisoners are often shackled during childbirth in this country as well as put in solitary confinement, practices that are as shocking as th…
(2018-09-18). For Black College Students, Balancing Activism and Mental Health Takes Work. thenation.com For Black College Students, Balancing Activism and Mental Health Takes Work appeared first on The Nation.
(2018-09-18). SPLC: Alabama's prison system violated court order to increase mental health staffing. splcenter.org The SPLC will argue in court today that the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) violated a federal court order to provide more mental health workers for people who are incarcerated in the state's prison system.
(2018-09-18). Make Nutrition an Issue in Food Drives. progressive.org How healthy is the food you donate?
(2018-09-17). Palm Oil Is Everywhere in India—and Public-Health Experts Are Concerned. thenation.com Palm Oil Is Everywhere in India—and Public-Health Experts Are Concerned appeared first on The Nation.
(2018-08-30). Venezuela Denounces Regional Anti-Migrant 'Xenophobia' as Brazil Militarises Border. venezuelanalysis.com The Maduro administration contrasted the recent attacks against Venezuelan migrants to its own open door policy which has seen foreigners benefit from free health, housing, education, and food programs.