Health Care for All?
Volume: 30
Number: 1
Worsening economic injustice has become a fact of life in our current world and has a profound effect on health and health care in many countries. Dysfunctional health systems exist in most areas of the world. Many impoverished countries, especially those in Sub-Saharan Africa, spend so little on health care that it is impossible to…
This is the third of recent issues of WIN to take a “back to basics” approach. After Grow Food (Vol. 28, Number 3) and The Value of Land (Volume 29, Number 3), WIN now tackles another fundamental topic: health. If we tried to come up with a list of the most basic building blocks of…
Healthcare for all protest in front of Supreme Court Courtesy Margaret Flowers The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in March, 2010 was hailed as an historic victory for health care reform in the United States. But those of us who advocate for a single payer health system saw through the media hype….
Censorship without the Censors Censored 2013: Dispatches from the Media Revolution by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth with Project Censored Seven Stories Press, 2012, 464 pp. $14.96 Censored 2013: Dispatches from the Media Revolution is a crucial book on the top censored news stories of 2011-2012 that were ignored or underreported by the…
Vision in Search of a Strategy After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action by Dada Maheshvaranda Innerworld Publications, 2012, 390 pp., $19.95 After Capitalism: Economic Democracy in Action, a significantly updated version to author Dada Maheshvarananda’s earlier text with a similar name, is a well-researched and written account covering the perils of capitalism and the…
Pottery, Pacifism and Global Politics By John E. Cort Devi Prasad: Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman By Naman P. Ahuja Routledge India, 2012, 320 pages, 392 illustrations, $100 Devi Prasad (1921-2011) served as Joint Secretary and then General Secretary of War Resisters’ International from 1962 until 1972, and was subsequently Chairperson of WRI until…
Product on display at Oakland’s Harborside Health Center.Courtesy of Bill Weinberg Over the past generation, an informal alliance of activists, cultivators, entrepreneurs, and medical professionals have struggled to redefine how the United States views the cannabis plant. Victories at state and municipal levels have created a new field of medicinal treatment for a wide…
Doctors Without Borders, HealthGAP, Oxfam, and the National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Prices are just a few of the many public health advocates sounding the alarm about how a proposed new trade and investment pact for the Pacific Rim threatens access to medicine in the United States and throughout the globe. If approved, the…
2010 Think Outside the Bomb march to Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory/Gloria Williams The natural landscape of what is now New Mexico is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Being from the U.S. South via the Midwest, I had never before been to the desert. The vastness of undeveloped space on…
140,000 reasons to protest in Egypt (and the U.S.) U.S. export license for tear gas to Egypt. On February 22, Egypt Independent leaked a shipping document and memo that revealed the Jamestown, PA-based tear gas manufacturer CSI plans to send a massive amount of canisters — 140,000 for around $2.5 million — to the Egyptian…
ZINN Thank you so much for the selections from your latest issue (Vol. 29, No. 4), “Radical Lives,” including Vijay Prashad’s fine review of the Howard Zinn biography. A long-time admirer of Martin Duberman’s work, I have to admit to a certain disappointment in his overall treatment of Howard Zinn, and wonder if other readers…
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