Toward a Health System Beyond Insurance
by Eric B. Ross
In 1998, the British Labor government issued two important reports that underscored its view that, according to the British Medical Journal, “the root causes of ill health are mostly social, economic, and environmental and require policies that target help at…
Posted on March 5th, 2010
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History of the Future
by Rachel Signer
It may actually be impossible to understand history. My
imagination does not suffice to produce the sensoria
commensurable to a pre-hypertechnological era.
What would it be like to take a walk prior to the cellphone?
To hear music without headphones, without even knowing
what headphones…
Posted on February 22nd, 2010
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Physicians Who Protest: Single-Payer Interviews
by Erin Sullivan
No matter how strongly we may feel about the health-care debate–and no matter which side of the debate we’re on–most of us stay safely out of it. Aside from a few boisterous town-hall meetings, we monitor the dealings in Congress…
Posted on February 4th, 2010
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Walls
by Rachel Signer
the Berlin wall was like a very wide joke. as if
it were possible to (divide) the world, like
the air we breathe won’t continue to be the same
and the blood running through our veins will
cease pulsing with the identical
components. the wall
proposed…
Posted on February 4th, 2010
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Victory, Morales and Social Movements Confront New Challenges in Bolivia
by Tanya Kerssen
Bolivian president Evo Morales and his political party, the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), won a resounding victory in the presidential elections this past Sunday, December 6. The nearest challengers, Manfred Reyes Villa and his running mate Leopoldo Fernández—whose current address…
Posted on January 24th, 2010
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Poem for Cape Town
by Rachel Signer
poem for Cape Town. white
cottony waves (like fluffy cash
crop your cousins gleaned from southern
American
plantations), they crash
against untamable
extremities of Earth, so glad
not to be
mutilated and reformed
by toughened brown
hands into bricks (subjugated
people suffer alongside desecrated
land unless settler capital
decrees a national park, meaning…
Posted on January 24th, 2010
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I Have a Dream
by Ayman Talal Quader
[Ayman Quader writes occasionally and publishes his photographs in The Porcupine. This piece, slightly edited, originally appeared in today's The Palestine Telegraph]
I am Ayman Talal Quader, a Palestinian living in the Gaza Strip, whose people have been besieged for almost…
Posted on January 24th, 2010
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The Angel of History Weeps for Haiti
by Eric B. Ross
Long before last week’s earthquake, Haiti already lay at the epicenter of one of world history’s great fault lines, where it has been precariously located ever since Christopher Columbus first set foot on the great tropical island that he named…
Posted on January 22nd, 2010
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A Christmas Song for Obama
by Eric B. Ross
The U.S. was involved in war in Indochina long before anyone seemed to know (unless they had, perhaps, read Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, published in 1955). There was ample time for us to have paid attention. But, in 1961,…
Posted on December 26th, 2009
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Survival of the Witless: Creationism and the Republicans
by Eric B. Ross
Pat Buchanan, right-wing pundit, former presidential candidate, a regular political consultant on MSNBC, has gone on record for some years now that he believes that global warming is s scam, calculated to frighten Americans “into transferring sovereignty, power and wealth…
Posted on December 22nd, 2009
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