After getting a prescription from my doctor for a sinus infection that has triggered asthma, I find myself wheezing in line at the pharmacy, where they tell my insurance refuses to pay for that prescription. Not having anticipated paying $80 for a vial of pills, I reach for my credit card. Not there. Not to […]
Ralph Ellison, celebrated author of Invisible Man, spoke in September 1963 at a teachers’ conference “…to discuss ‘these children,’ the difficult thirty percent. We know this very well; it has been hammered out again and again.” Ellison was addressing the educational failures of African American children in U.S. public schools, including drop outs. Rejecting the […]
While two US destroyers and 50 US marines headed towards the Libyan coast after the embassy there was burned and its ambassador was killed recent or ongoing riots were reported outside the US embassies in both Egypt and Yemen and the Berlin US embassy was evacuated due to a terrorist threat. Meanwhile, the US presidential […]
By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes “Do you really want to live in a country where one party is so desperate to win the White House that they go around trying to make it harder for people to vote if they’re people of color, poor people or first generation immigrants?” - Bill Clinton on Republican […]
By Margaret Flowers This week, secret ‘negotiations’ are underway in a remote resort in Lansdowne,Virginia for the greatest global corporate coup in history. It’s called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and if you haven’t heard about it, then you are in the majority because there is a virtual media blackout in the United States. To raise […]
This a.m., Diane Rehm had a show about Israel going to war against Iran. One of the Israelis said that there was no cause for concern that it might become a much larger conflict. Rather it would remain regional. Because the majority of Americans and Israelis do not want a confrontation with Iran, whether Israel […]
A lot of attention has been given recently to organic vs conventionally grown foods. Twelve people- 4 MDs, 2 PhDs, one, maybe 2 librarians, 1 public health person, and three bachelor degrees- one of which had an undergraduate research grant all got together, WITHOUT any $$$ from outside, and decided to comb through 45 years […]