Keith Olbermann on what really matters when it comes to health reform by Keith Olbermann October 7, 2009 Since August 23rd of this year I have interacted daily with our American Health Care system and often done so to the exclusion of virtually all other business. It is not undercover reporting, and it is not an expert study [...]

by Yves Housson September 30, 2009 For writer and philosopher Hélène Cixous, the wave of suicides at France Télécom is “a metaphor for the cruelty that is also manifested elsewhere.” The “dehumanization machine” does not spare the university either. Yves Housson for L’Humanité: The series of suicides at France Télécom has aroused barely any reaction within the intellectual [...]

por Cristina Canoura 28 de septiembre, 2009 Tres millones de mujeres —casi la población total del Uruguay— recurren anualmente al aborto en 12 países de América Latina y el Caribe. Otros tres millones recurren a este procedimiento en Brasil. La abrumadora mayoría de todas ellas lo hace de manera clandestina, debido a que las leyes de las [...]

Pared-down summit will force heads of rich states to listen to those of third world in hope of kickstarting radical action by Suzanne Goldenberg September 20, 2009 The United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty [...]

by Riaz Hassan September 11, 2009 Suicide bombing attacks have become a weapon of choice among terrorist groups because of their lethality and ability to cause mayhem and fear. Though they are depressing, the almost-daily news reports of deaths caused by suicide attacks rarely explain what motivates the attackers. Between 1981 and 2006, 1,200 suicide attacks made [...]

by Arthur Delaney September 3, 2009 A new survey of unemployed Americans quantifies the enormous psychological trauma inflicted on laid-off workers by the recession — but the pain comes through most clearly in the comments of the unemployed themselves. “The lack of income and loss of health benefits hurts greatly, but losing the ability to provide for my [...]

by Bill Quigley & Davida Finger August 17, 2009 0. Number of renters in Louisiana who have received financial assistance from the $10 billion federal post-Katrina rebuilding program Road Home Community Development Block Grant – compared to 116,708 homeowners.

Protecting the Iranian Civil Society August 7, 2009 Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain. –A poem by the Persian poet Sa’adi (1210 – 1290) gracing the entrance of the [...]

Last March, poet, novelist and feminist Alice Walker joined a delegation organized by Code Pink, to travel to the Gaza Strip just weeks after the 22-day Israeli bombardment and invasion. Walker, globally acclaimed for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Color Purple, had also traveled to Rwanda, Eastern Congo and other places where she witnessed [...]