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Quitting antidepressants can be tricky
The true proportion of patients on antidepressants who can stop safely without “relapse” is likely to be considerably higher than the 50% we found in the trials, especially if the taper is done hyperbolically.
The Enemy From Within
The war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China.
The New Anarchy: Truth, Nature, Beauty and Withness
There was someone out there who felt exactly as I did about the absurd phenomenon of so-called anarchists fervently preaching compliance with the authoritarian dystopia being justified with the flimsy-ass excuse of a bad flu.
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.
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