Subjects Archives: Health

Created by Hugo Chávez, the Great Housing Mission has reached its 13th anniversary providing housing to working-class people.

In general, the discussion around diet today is a monotonous sermon.

The IDF are just attacking hospitals and mowing down civilians and trying to bury the evidence of their crimes, so naturally we’re seeing the western political-media class focus very hard on the problem of antisemitism allegations on college campuses. Reading by Tim Foley.

Agribusiness assaults on tropical forests are driving the emergence of new diseases and epidemics.

There is a chilling parallel between what happened during the peak of the Irish famine and the current global refugee crisis.

It is time to position ourselves at the pivotal intersection where the celebration of neurodiversity meets the call for social justice.

In this first of two extracts from Terina Hine’s new book, “A People’s History of Covid”, the impact of inequality and neoliberalism in the UK on the spread of Covid is outlined

Most governments are trying to trick us into believing we don’t need to adapt to COVID-19. They can’t sustain the illusion forever.

Amid the intensifying water crisis that plagues billions of people across the world, Israel is using water as a weapon in its war against Palestinians by denying access and destroying infrastructure.

Israel has turned the largest medical facility in the Gaza Strip into a charred wasteland, a slaughterhouse, a cemetery. During its two-week siege on al-Shifa Hospital, Israel destroyed “all buildings and departments without exception, in a clear crime that shames humanity,” Gaza’s government media office stated. The army withdrew at dawn on Monday, after facing […]

Covid-19 was the least unexpected pandemic in history. Why were governments not prepared?

Health activists and scientists in Europe met to develop strategies to build regional public pharmaceutical infrastructure as pandemic lessons seems lost on governments and producers.

In the shadow of Covid-19, bigotry paints the Chinese identity as synonymous with disease and subversion—discriminatory policies, from visa restrictions to TikTok bans, have been ramped up ever since, writes FIONA SIM.

Caracas communards and campesino organizations are building ties through fair-price food distribution.

There is no doubt that we live in perilous times. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukrainian war, the environmental crisis, the care crisis, the cost of living crisis, the migration crisis, and now the unfolding disaster in the Middle East continue to pile up chaotically.

Relentless evolution creates ‘resilient, dangerous foes’ in the Anthropocene.

In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestine.

The Failing Battle for Health and Healthcare in These All Too Disunited States.

In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people.

Greenland, part of Denmark, was a colony until 1953, after which it became a province of the Scandinavian country.