Public Health

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[…]

Mexico’s AMLO Announces Campaign Against US Blockade of Cuba

February 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Cuba, Latin America, Mexico

by Ben Norton, published on Geopolitical Economy, February 13, 2023 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced Mexico will lead an international movement to end the US government’s “inhumane” blockade against Cuba. Praising Fidel Castro as a “visionary”, AMLO denounced neoliberalism and pledged support for universal public healthcare and education. Mexico’s progressive President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that his country[…]

European Workers Fight for Wages and Rights

December 3, 2022 UNAC Editor Uncategorized

From Avante, Published on Workers World, November 24, 2022 I spent considerable effort looking for a larger photo of any of these events, and what I found was from earlier this fall. There is, of course, no censorship here, BUT, when I ran a search on “strike/protest, France/Brussels/Spain, November 2022” I got photos from 2014 and 2018; photos from Hong[…]

Coronavirus and Militarism, The End of an Illusion

March 30, 2020 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Human Rights, Nigeria, Political Corruption, Public Health, Statement, War on the Poor

Statement from the Black Alliance for Peace The nation that considers itself to be the apex of capitalist achievement on planet Earth turns out to have no health care system worthy of the name – a testament to the sucking moral vacuum at America’s imperial, white settler colony core. A lowly virus – a form of being that exists at[…]

US Should Lift Economic Sanctions to Avoid More Deaths From Pandemic

March 26, 2020 UNAC Editor Iran, Public Health, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), published on TeleSUR English, March 18, 2020 The U.S. government should immediately lift economic sanctions against Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and other countries to avoid unnecessary deaths and more extensive propagation of the pandemic, said economist Jeffrey Sachs, professor, and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. While sanctions already[…]