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Tag Archives: Disease
Coronavirus reminds us we are organisms in an environment
By Kurt Cobb Source: Resilience A close friend of mine, a professor of English literature, has been researching American philosopher John Dewey, whose book Quest for Certainty captivated me so much many years ago that I read it again right … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Health, Inequality, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged civilization, coronavirus, Covid-19, culture, Disease, economic inequality, Economics, environment, Health, Illness, John Dewey, Medicine, microorganisms, Pandemic, Philosophy, Public Health, Quest for Certainty, science, society
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First Do No Harm
By Emmy Bee Source: Dissident Voice Let me preface what I am about to say by stating that I have the utmost esteem for mainstream medicine’s skill in emergency situations — the do or die surgeries, the dispensing of powerful … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, GMOs, Health, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Alternative Medicine, Big Pharma, DDT, Disease, drugs, FDR, GMOs, Health, healthcare, Medicalization, MMR Vaccine, Pharmaceuticals, Public Health, Vaccines, Western Medicine
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Plagues
By Klaus Madersbacher Source: AntiWar.com One indicator of human development is the number of people who die from preventable diseases and epidemics. For example, the plague, as “Black Death” one of the horrors of the Middle Ages, is extinct in … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Empire, Geopolitics, Health, History, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Cholera, Disease, empire, Epidemic, Genocide, geopolitics, Health, imperialism, iraq, Madeleine Albright, Plagues, Smallpox, society, US Foreign Policy, war
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8 Critical Factors Behind Every Food Crisis
By John Hawthorne Source: Business Connect From the beginning of time, their have been food crises in one form or another. Ancient books such as the Bible have records of various famines devastating portions of the world. And while it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Inequality, Neoliberalism, society, war
Tagged Agro-fuels, Alternative Energy, Climate Change, Corporate Globalization, Dairy Industry, Desertification, Disease, Drought, Fertilizers, Food Crises, Foreign Aid, Fossil Fuels, Global Food Crisis, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Meat Industry, Petrochemicals, Plant-based Fuels, Poverty, Somalia, Starvation, war
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The Unifying Force of War Abolition
By David Swanson Source: Let’s Try Democracy Remarks at United National Antiwar Coalition in Richmond, Virginia, on June 18, 2017. It’s not unusual for an activist, focused on one of the millions of worthy causes out there, to try to … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, corporate news, culture, divide and conquer, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Environment, Health, Militarization, military spending, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Racism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged activism, anti-war, Climate Change, corporate media, Disease, economy, Health System, Mass Murder, Militarization, Nonviolence, Nuclear War, police state, racism, war
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Joni Mitchell on Morgellons Disease
Influential singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell just turned 70 last Thursday. In a retrospective piece about her career published by U-T San Diego, this particular line caught my attention: She no longer performs because she has a rare medical condition, Morgellons syndrome, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, consciousness, culture, GMOs, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged Agrobacterium, Charles E. Holman Foundation, Disease, Genetically Modified Oganisms, Genetically modified organism, Globalresearch.ca, GMOs, Health, Joni Mitchell, Monsanto, Morgellons, Morgellons Disease, Morgellons Syndrome, New Scientist
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