Healthcare

Treatment of Severe Mental Illness in the U.S. and Cuba – a Comparison

September 27, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Public Health, The War at Home

by Sue Harris, published on Workers World, September 26, 2023 Two hundred years ago, people with serious mental illness (SMI) were often placed in prison because society didn’t know how to care for them. After reformers fought for more humane treatment for the mentally ill, their care moved to mental institutions in the 1800s. However, these large mental asylums were[…]

The U.S role in fomenting violence in Haiti

May 8, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Austerity, Deportation, Economic Blockade, Gun Violence, Haiti, Identity Politics, International Aid and Debt, Public Health

by G. Dunkel, posted on Workers World, May 5, 2023 María Isabel Salvador, the author of the April 25 report from the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) to the U.N. Security Council on the current situation in Haiti emphasized “the urgent need for the deployment, authorized by the Security Council, of an international specialized force.” Based on the last[…]

China, COVID Origins and War Propaganda

March 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Asia Pivot, Bioweapons, China, Hybrid Warfare, Propaganda, Public Health, Weaponized Information

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, March 15, 2023 A human cause of covid-19 is possible, but anti-China rhetoric is war propaganda, not scientific evidence. “I was the first governor to take action to ban Tik Tok here in our state and we saw over two dozen different states take action and congress after that. So we’re thankful[…]

From Reproductive Rights to the Hijab, Our Bodies, Our Choice

December 31, 2022 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, Reproductive Sovereignty, Women

by Alison Bodine and Janine Solanki, published in Fire This Time, Vol 16, Issue 10-11, November 2022 The Rise and Fall of Roe v. Wade On January 22, 1973, in the midst of the women’s liberation movement, the U.S. Supreme Court made the historic ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade to grant women the constitutional right to have[…]

Biden: Hands Off Rail Workers and Their Right to Strike!

December 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Healthcare, Labor Struggles, Statement, US Government Action

by Statement by Labor Commission, FRSO, November 30, 2022 On Monday, President Joe Biden publicly called on Congress to force union rail workers to accept the sub-par contract terms he helped craft. This is shameless union busting and pre-emptive strike breaking on behalf of the billionaire railroad bosses. The members of four unions representing the majority of rail workers already[…]

Nicaragua in Latin America – the Invisible and the Reality

October 28, 2022 UNAC Editor Imperial Lies and Liars, New World Visions, Nicaragua, Public Health, Socio-Economic Struggles

by Stephen Sefton, published on Tortilla con Sal, October 26, 2022 In Nicaragua, the population lives the daily reality of the country’s revolutionary development, the democratization of the economy, the modernization of the health and education systems, the transformation of infrastructure and a dynamic reaffirmation of culture, identity and national dignity. However, overseas and in the region itself, these tremendous[…]

A People’s Analysis of a World on Fire

September 25, 2022 UNAC Editor Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Economics, Environment, Latin America, Public Health, Taiwan, Ukraine

by Manuel Bertoldi, published on People’s Dispatch, September 24, 2022 The following article is a summary of debates and reflections within the organization ALBA Movimientos, which were discussed during the last meeting of the International Peoples’ Assembly. These are observations made based on the daily reality in which the peoples of the world exist: in a turbulent world with an[…]

The Privilege of Free Healthcare

August 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Human Rights, Nicaragua, Public Health

by Becca Renk, published on Casa Benjamin Linder, August 10, 2022 DENGUE FEVER We’re settling in to our daughter Orla’s sixth night in the hospital. Visiting hours are over and only ten of the beds in our 32-bed pediatric ward are occupied tonight, down from 20 a few nights ago. The patients – mostly young teens in our room[…]

As COVID-19 Variant Hits, Cuba Leads in Health and Vaccination Rates

July 29, 2022 UNAC Editor Cuba, Healthcare, Public Health

by Sara Flounders, published on International Action Center, July 20, 2022 CNN sounded the alarm July 14: “Nearly two-and-a-half years since the coronavirus pandemic began, the most infectious and transmissible variant yet has arrived. . . . Now the virus is spreading again — evolving, escaping immunity and driving an uptick in cases and hospitalizations.” Major corporate media described how[…]

Capitalism and Baby Formula

May 25, 2022 UNAC Editor Austerity, Public Health, The War at Home, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, May 25, 2022 The baby formula shortage is not a glitch in the system. It actually exemplifies everything that goes wrong when the profit motive rules. Capitalism can’t ensure a food supply or anything else that humans need. “Socialism doesn’t work” is repeated like a mantra. We’re told endlessly that capitalism provides[…]