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Nursing Home Deaths Remain High
Nursing home deaths have remained high while older Amercians’ rates of receiving Covid boosters have been lower than expected.
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Pentagon Fails Another Audit, Congress Giving it Billions More
Congress stands ready to give a big raise to an agency that failed to account for more than 60 percent of its assets.
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Why are 9 out of 10 Covid Deaths Among Americans 65+?
Although adults over the age of 65 make up only 16 percent of the U.S. population, they account for nearly 90 percent of current Covid deaths. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field weighs in on why.
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Study Links Paid Sick Leave and Higher Vaccination Rates
A new study finds that vaccination rates may be 17 percent higher in cities with paid sick leave policies compared to cities without such policies.
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U.S. Pouring Gasoline on Ukraine Fire, Risking Armageddon
In his latest article “Ukraine War Evolves: Slouching Toward Armageddon”, Professor Falk harkens back to the Yalta Agreement on maintaining spheres of influence, and how a self-censoring Western media has propogated state propaganda as the US continues to torpedo any attempts at a resolution to the conflict.
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Predicted Spill of Toxic Foam in Hawaii Highlights Dangers
Elder’s team documented high levels of PFAS draining into the water at Honolulu earlier this year.
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Global Covid Mortality Rates Obscure Actual Loss of Life
Philip Schellekens argues that reported Covid-19 mortality rates suggest that the pandemic has been “mild” in developing countries––but further examination leads to exactly the opposite conclusion.
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Biden on Railroad Strike: “Giving Big Thumbs Up” to Those Who Have “Run Supply Chain to the Ground”
“Two things everyone needs to understand: 1) It is BECAUSE they always counted on Biden/Congress forcing a deal down workers’ throats that rail carriers saw no reason to bargain in good faith for 2-plus years or to change the profit-maximizing practices that have blown up the supply chain. So, if you just started caring about the crisis on the railroads and were hand wringing about striking workers hurting the supply chain, I got news for you: Biden just gave a big thumbs up to the people who have already run the supply chain into the ground.
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Free Euthanasia to the Poor: “A Society in Collapse”
“The idea that a society would be so inhumane as to provide free euthanasia to the poor or emotionally troubled instead of providing for everyone’s welfare is a society in collapse”
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The Politics of Health
Brian Castrucci spoke to the Institute for Public Accuracy about the politics of health in the U.S. “Elected officials have a greater influence over your health than your doctor. The prescription for better health in this nation is policy. Yet every policy we have about health is about pills and procedures.”
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“With a tiny staff, it has managed to place on the air and in newspapers, points of view otherwise excluded from the national debate.”
Howard Zinn