Medical ethics – Best chance of restoring distorted health systems
The medical system supposedly exists to do good – in the public interest. We know there can be risks inherent in any medical intervention, but interventions are generally selected when an assessment of risk and benefits weighs significantly in favour of benefit.
What Causes Water to Move Inside the Body?
An unfortunate situation is created where science advances knowledge to a point but then reverses polarities and paradoxically becomes a barrier to that advancement.
Collaboration With Bullies, a Road to Hell?
The depth of corruption at the moment is nauseatingly grim but it’s good remember that every situation takes a long time to shape, and that our choices of today may determine what tomorrow will look like.
Poverty and Crisis: Sucking Humanity Dry
The only thing inevitable about the current crisis was the collapse of a debt-fuelled, unsustainable neoliberalism set up to facilitate outright plunder by the super-rich who have offshored more than $50 trillion in hidden accounts.
US corporations cash in on Ukraine’s oil and gas
As Ukraine sells off public assets in a privatization spree, US fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Halliburton are in talks to run its oil & gas industry, and the IMF imposes austerity.
America, the Single-Opinion Cult
It was once considered healthy for the press to play to mass audiences and position itself as a skeptical thorn in the side of officialdom. There is no institution like that left in American life. What we have instead is an increasingly pissed-off population that needs to look about eighty results down in every Google search to find its point of view represented.
FDA: Vaccines Do Not Need to Prevent Infections or Transmission
The FDA in an unorthodox manner approved the vaccines—first, Pfizer by approving Comirnaty, yet keeping BNT162b2 (investigational) as the only vaccine in distribution.
You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors
In recent years, the US has been waging an aggressive campaign to arrest China’s technological development, which it views as a serious threat to its dominance.