Health Reform: Turning from the Solidarity Principle (tags)
Neoliberal economic and labor market policy, stagnating working income and continuing mass unemployment have withered the extent of employment paying into social security.. The next financing crisis of health insurance is pre-programmed.
Pathological Fixation on Work (tags)
Work mania-voluntarily-has become social normality.. We have largely internalized the norms of the work society. In other words, we are susceptible to work mania.
The Monster of Suburbia (tags)
They don’t know about sickness, death, or old age not so much because they have never been exposed to it, but more because they have become detached from the side of reality that is icky.
Economic Growth as Myth and Sickness by Marc Batko (tags)
We are called to be subjects, to struggle for equal opportunities and the minimum essentials of life. Our gifts and talents, hidden, ignored or buried by the neoliberal steamroller, can be rediscovered as we reclaim self-determination.
The Other Rage: Post-Traumatic Embitterment Disorder (tags)
Embitterment is a compound emotion that includes despair, aggression against one-self, against another person, hopelessness and mental blocks. Embitterment is a far wider emotion than depression or fear. Embitterment seizes everything.
Standing at the Graves of Iraq (tags)
The bin Laden tape provokes visceral reactions in a visceral campaign. And if visceral is the game to be played, then where there is fear, there should be sickness. [From the CounterPunch weekend edition.]
filipinos blame GM crop on mystery sickness (tags)
John Aglionby in Kalyong, southern pollen from Bt maize seems to be the culpret
Julian Simon Says there is no global warming (tags)
I'm the only one with bains in this state.