Djokovic says 'plant-based' diet helps him to 'recover well' and defeat allergies
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-12
Tennis player Novak Djokovic puts his good health and swift injury recovery times down to his plant-based diet. | The world number one says: I do eat plant-based. I think that's one of the reasons why I recover well. I don't have allergies that I used to have any more. | And I like it. | Over the course of the championships, activists have repeatedly chalked the words "Novak Djokovic is vegan" on the pavement around Wimbledon station. | But the 32-year-old insists: | I don't like the labels, to be honest. I do eat plant-based (food), for quite a few years already. | But because of the misinterpretations of labels…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/07/12/djokovic-says-plant-based-diet-helps-him-to-recover-well-and-defeat-allergies/
Skull of Death: Mass Media, Inauthentic Opposition, and Eco-Existential Reality in a Pre-Fascist Age of Appeasement
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair | Alongside and consistent with other privilege- and power-serving missions, so-called mainstream corporate media's role is to keep the populace focused as best it can on relatively trivial matters and diverted from the most urgent topics of our time. | Kamala Harris Wants to Kill Your Health Insurance | Two Sundays ago, in a fit of masochistic media research, I watched some cable news talking heads do their weekly news roundups. CNN had a panel of know-it-all neoliberals who reflected on the Democratic Party's first two presidential debates. Everyone agreed that Kamala Harris had…
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North America's Opioid Addiction Problem and the Institutional Machinery Keeping It Alive
Julian Vigo | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
I recently watched the 2017 documentary, Heroin(e), directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon which focuses upon three women–a fire chief, a judge, and a missionary–battling West Virginia's opioid epidemic. Set in Appalachia's Cabell County, this film examines the financial and real-life costs of reviving addicts in what very much seems to be an endless cycle of IV…
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North America's Opioid Addiction Problem and the Institutional Machinery Keeping It Alive
Julian Vigo | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
I recently watched the 2017 documentary, Heroin(e), directed by Elaine McMillion Sheldon which focuses upon three women–a fire chief, a judge, and a missionary–battling West Virginia's opioid epidemic. Set in Appalachia's Cabell County, this film examines the financial and real-life costs of reviving addicts in what very much seems to be an endless cycle of IV…
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Biden Calls ACA a Breakthrough for Mental Health Parity. That's Not Quite True
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-12
In a sit-down interview with CNN, 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden touted the Obama administration's passage of the Affordable Care Act, asserting that this law evened out the playing field when it came to insurance coverage of mental and physical health. | "We made parity between mental health and physical health," Biden told CNN's Chris Cuomo. "It was a fundamental breakthrough in how we thought about how things should work." | This gets at a health care issue that — as a federal appeals court weighs Obamacare's constitutionality — is now particul…
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"Strategic Extremism": How Republicans and Establishment Democrats Use Identity Politics to Divide and Rule
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
As we know, both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are bought, sold, and paid for by big business. For that reason, both have a history of avoiding the issues that are common to Americans of all political persuasions. Addressing such issues would undermine the profits of big business. They include free healthcare, living…
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"Strategic Extremism": How Republicans and Establishment Democrats Use Identity Politics to Divide and Rule
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
As we know, both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are bought, sold, and paid for by big business. For that reason, both have a history of avoiding the issues that are common to Americans of all political persuasions. Addressing such issues would undermine the profits of big business. They include free healthcare, living…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/strategic-ex…
How to Pay for Major Progressive Programs: Add New Money to the System
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-12
The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another to help the poor, the disadvantaged and the struggling middle class. Proposals ranged from a Universal Basic Income to Medicare for All to a Green New Deal to student debt forgiveness and free college tuition. The problem, as Stuart Varney observed on FOX Business, was that no one had a viable way to pay for it all without raising taxes or taking from other programs,…
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New Ruling Jeopardizes Reproductive Care Access for Nearly 4 Million People
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-12
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled the Trump administration's domestic "gag rule," which bans federal family planning dollars from going to health-care providers who perform abortions or refer patients for abortion services, can take effect everywhere but the state of Maryland. | The ruling jeopardizes comprehensive reproductive health-care access for nearly 4 million people. | "This is devastating news for the millions of people who rely on Title X for cancer screenings, HIV tests, affordable birth control, and other critical primary and preventive care," Dr. Leana Wen, Planned Parenthood Fe…
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5G Threatens Weather Forecasting. Devastating Health Impacts
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
It comes as no surprise that the American public remains oblivious to a not-so-slight glitch in the 5G Race with China as the US strives to be the first, the best and most technologically advanced country in the world with …
globalresearch.ca/5g-threatens-weather-forecasting-devastating-health-impacts/5683373
Pathologizing Kids, Pharma Style
Martha Rosenberg | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
Millions of kids today are on meds for conduct disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, mixed manias, social phobia and, of course, ADHD. But according to data from IMS health in a Wall Street Journal article, just as many kids are being treated for non-psychiatric conditions that were often considered…
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How to pay for it all: An option the candidates missed
Ellen Brown | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-11
The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another to help the poor, the disadvantaged and the struggling middle class. Proposals ranged from a Universal Basic Income to Medicare for All to a Green New Deal to student …
nationofchange.org/2019/07/11/how-to-pay…
Mass measles vaccination campaign begins in Ebola-hit DR Congo province
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-11
Health workers have started a massive measles vaccination campaign in north-east Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a region that's in the grip of the second deadliest Ebola virus outbreak on record.
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Medi-Cal Enrollment Among Immigrant Kids Stalls, Then Falls. Is Fear to Blame?
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-11
As California prepares to expand Medicaid coverage to young adults living in the state illegally, the number of undocumented immigrant children in the program is slowly declining, new state data show. | Source: California Department of Health Care Services Unauthorized immigrant children have been eligible for Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program for low-income…
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Chilean Teachers Continue Strike, Plan National Assembly Friday
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-11
The College of Teachers of Chile convened Thursday a national assembly for July 12 after they declined to accept the proposal of the Ministry of Education and decided to continue the indefinite strike. | RELATED: | Chileans Take to Streets to Defend Public Health System | The president of the Teachers' Association, Mario Aguilar said they have to analyze and t…
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Chilean Teachers Continue Strike, Plan National Assembly Friday
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-11
The College of Teachers of Chile convened Thursday a national assembly for July 12 after they declined to accept the proposal of the Ministry of Education and decided to continue the indefinite strike. | RELATED: | Chileans Take to Streets to Defend Public Health System | The president of the Teachers' Association, Mario Aguilar said they have to analyze and t…
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The Snow Queen and Bremen's Hopes
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-11
Being sucked into the political maelstrom are the two vessels which headed every Federal German government since 1949. Elections to the European Union's Parliament in May gave the "Christian Union" a measly, chilly 28.9%. Though still Germany's biggest, its keel is wobbling. With mumbling about Angela Merkel's views and health (sharp eyes and tongues have…
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"Unconscionable & Unacceptable": Rep. Barragán Decries Detention of Migrant Children in Prison Cells
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-11
Yazmin Juárez, the Guatemalan mother whose child died from a lung infection after being held in an ICE detention center, testified before members of a congressional panel Wednesday. She shared the story of her daughter, 19-month-old Mariee, who died last year shortly after being released from the South Texas Family Detention Center in Dilley, Texas. Juárez filed a $60 million lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol and the Department of Health and Human Services. The House subcommittee convened to examine the treatment of refugees in U.S.
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Representative Barragán Decries Detention of Migrant Children in Jail Cells
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-11
Yazmin Juárez, the Guatemalan mother whose child died after being held in an ICE detention center from a lung infection, testified before members of a congressional panel Wednesday. She shared the story of her daughter, 19-month-old Mariee, who died last year shortly after being released from the South Texas Family Detention Center in Dilley, Texas. Juárez filed a $60 million lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Patrol and the Department of Health and Human Services. The House subcommittee convened to examine the treatment of…
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Sanders Joins Union Leaders and Healthcare Workers In Protesting 'Corporate Greed'-Fueled Private Equity Sale of Philadelphia Hospital
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-11
Sen. Bernie Sanders joined hundreds of union workers and Philadelphia community members on Thursday in decrying the planned closure of Hahnemann University Hospital, whose assets were recently put up for sale by Joel Freedman, the private equity executive who bought it last year. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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How the Climate Crisis Is Pushing Central Americans Out of Their Homes Toward the U.S
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-10
As the U.S. continues to crack down on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, we look at one of the underreported driving factors leading people to flee their home countries: the climate crisis. John Carlos Frey, author of "Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border," spent time with Central American climate refugees traveling in a caravan toward the United States. He says, "If this drought continues, we're looking at all-out famine from Central America. …That's one of the major reasons why they're coming. … The government doesn't even acknowledge the fact that there is a climate c…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/10/john_carl…
How to Pay for It All: An Option the Candidates Missed
Ellen Brown | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-10
The Democratic Party has clearly swung to the progressive left, with candidates in the first round of presidential debates coming up with one program after another to help the poor, the disadvantaged and the struggling middle class. Proposals ranged from a Universal Basic Income to Medicare for All to a Green New Deal to student …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/how-to-pay-fo…
Racism: Milwaukee's Public Health Emergency
Isiah Holmes | progressive.org | 2019-07-10
One of the most segregated cities in the United States takes on racism as a health issue.
progressive.org/dispatches/racism-milwau…
With hospitals in crisis, the government is shovelling even more NHS business to Amazon
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2019-07-10
On 10 July, news emerged of a new partnership between Amazon and the NHS. People can now get "expert health advice" from Amazon's Alexa devices. The Department of Health (DoH) claims this will reduce demand on the NHS. But given the drastic NHS funding crisis, this new partnership has caused widespread concern. | Alexa, I don't feel we…
thecanary.co/discovery/analysis-discovery/2019/07/10/with-hospitals-in-crisis-the-government-is-shovelling-even-more-nhs-business-to-amazon/
Operation Miracle Gives Sight to Nearly 50 Thousand Venezuelans
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-10
The Cuban-Venezuelan project Misión Milagro (Miracle Mission) operated on more than 49,200 patients in the South American nation, said the director of Surgical Medical Assistance of that instance, Adith León. | RELATED: | Cuban Doctors Restore Sight to Brazilian Community in Bolivia | In an interview with the Sovereign Health radio program, led by the minister of the portfolio, Carlos Alvarado, the official highlighted the achievements of this initiative in the last 15 years.
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Wednesday's Daily Brief: Guterres in Kenya, Prisoners sick in Iran, #GlobalGoals, Myanmar, Ukraine updates, and new space partnership
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-10
This Wednesday's UN top stories are: latest global terror warnings; political prisoners denied health access in Iran; high-level discussions on Sustainable Development Goals; continued abuse of Rohingya in Myanmar; Odessa killings in Ukraine; and partnering with NASA.
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The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. The Right to Know. Don't Put in Your Shirt Pocket
Environmental Health Trust | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
A landmark Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the City of Berkeley's cell phone right to know ordinance rejecting industries argument that the ordinance violates the first amendment. The Berkeley ordinance requires retailers to inform consumers that cell phones emit …
globalresearch.ca/the-dangers-of-cell-phone-radiation-the-right-to-know-dont-put-in-your-shirt-pocket/5683223
Groundbreaking cancer-fighting drugs now included in updated UN list of essential medicines
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-09
The UN health agency, WHO, announced on Tuesday that dozens of new drugs have been added to the list of essential medicines that every country should have, including new cancer treatments that can be swallowed rather than injected.
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'It's a Terrible Existence': The Crisis of Emergency Dialysis Care for Undocumented Immigrants
Eilís O'Neill | thenation.com | 2019-07-08
'It's a Terrible Existence': The Crisis of Emergency Dialysis Care for Undocumented Immigrants…
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Medicare for all means radical change, not just reforms
Esteban Guevara | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-06
Healthcare, along with education, jobs, and affordable housing, are essential human rights indispensable for everyone.
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Labor votes for Coalition's billions in tax cuts for the rich
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-05
It is an image that captured Labor's class betrayal on July 3, the first day of the new federal parliament. | A division had been called in the House of Representatives over the Coalition government's bill for huge tax cuts, which will disproportionately benefit the rich, erode progressive income tax by making marginal tax rates flatter, and force more cuts to public health, education and welfare. | On one side sat the sole Greens MP Adam Bandt and independent MP Andrew Wilkie. On the other, Labor and Coalition MPs. | The tax cuts then passed through the Senate the following day, with only Greens senators voting…
greenleft.org.au/content/labor-votes-coalitions-billions-tax-cuts-rich
'Government-Run Healthcare' Is a Product of Health Industry–Run Media
Michael Corcoran | fair.org | 2019-07-01
At the first of two Democratic debates ( 6/26/19), MSNBC host and moderator Lester Holt asked the presidential hopefuls, "Who here would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan?" He asked the same question the next night ( 6/27/19), and prefaced another question to Sen. Bernie Sanders: "You basically want to scrap the private health insurance system as we know it and replace it with a government-run plan."– | At a glance, this seems enti…
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House Casts Historic Vote to Repeal Authorization for Endless War
Paul Kawika Martin | peaceaction.org | 2019-06-19
Washington, D.C. — June 19, 2019 — In response to the House of Representatives passing H.R. 2740 (Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, Legislative Branch, Defense, State, Foreign Operations, and Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2020), which includes language to repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) eight months after …
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