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Tag: Disease

  • Empire, Mortality, and the Multi-Pronged Attack on Humanity

    The following is an interview of me done by substacker Unbekoming, originally published with his introduction here. The questions and answers are broad-ranging and allow me to explain decades of my work in many areas of science. A main focus is to understand the Covid period, the so-called COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The main intermingled […]

  • When You Suffer for Your Sanity and Struggle to Get Free

    Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands), The Starry Night, 1889. In 1930, Clément Fraisse (1901–1980), a shepherd from France’s Lozère region, was confined in a nearby psychiatric hospital after he tried to burn down his parents’ farmhouse. For two years, he was held in a dark, narrow cell. Using a spoon, and later the handle of his […]

  • “Medicalization”: Profit and Behavior-Control

    Thanks to the credulity and docility of the majority of Americans, Big Pharma has largely succeeded in medicalizing virtually every deviation from corporate-dictated, machine-like, behavioral uniformity.  In an era of expanding ignorance, fear sells–especially through meticulously crafted TV ads.  (“Ask your doctor if Viagra may be right for you.”) The collusion between Big Pharma and […]

  • Ceasefire Projection

    Ceasefire Projection

    This visual is based on statistical projections by researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. Their projections powerfully illustrate how many Palestinian lives are at stake in the next six months. They looked at four areas: traumatic injuries, non-communicable diseases, infectious diseases (including pandemics), […]

  • The Politics of Eating

    Reflections on the psychological, moral and political implications of what we eat, and on prospects for non-violent social change. Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are. — Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, Brillat-Savarin, Jean-Anthelme, (Penguin Books, 1994): p.13. Getting back into fasting after a break is difficult. In the […]

  • Prevention of Dangers: Mark of a Compassionate Society

    If only canes, walkers, railings and banisters were sentient, what would their message be to humans on Earth? “Prevention is the Priority, Dummies,” they would exclaim.  “Look at how many trips and falls we prevent for our users compared to the enormous costs in pain, suffering, family disarray and economic expenses that would occur were […]

  • Postmodern Tyranny: States of Deception from 9/11 to Covid-19

    Postmodern Tyranny: States of Deception from 9/11 to Covid-19

    It’s been well over a year now since the health scare dubbed the Covid-19 pandemic has had any widespread impact upon the lives of the vast majority of humanity. Since the “fog of war” has lifted, so to speak, there has been very little introspection regarding the knee-jerk authoritarianism imposed upon humanity in the liberal […]

  • Raising the Price: Martin Amis and the Post-9/11 Cataclysm

    Raising the Price: Martin Amis and the Post-9/11 Cataclysm

    The death of novelist and essayist Martin Amis on 19 May triggered a ‘mainstream’ wave, not just of admiration, but of adoration. It is clear from the obituaries that Amis died with his reputation intact and untarnished. In tweeting a link to his obituary for the Guardian, the Independent’s former literary editor Boyd Tonkin captured […]

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