Stress, inadequate mental health care cause of US troop deaths
The anti-war movement is speaking out against the death of five American GIs in Iraq allegedly shot by U.S. Army Sgt. John M. Russell May 12 at a clinic for troubled soldiers at Camp Liberty west of Baghdad. Sgt. Russell was scheduled to return to the U.S. in three weeks when he apparently snapped and went on a deadly shooting spree. “Consider that Sgt. Russell was on his third tour in
Top three really bring it on American Idol
Last night on “American Idol” Kris Allen, Adam Lambert and Danny Gokey, the final three Season Eight contestants really stepped up their game, making it one of the toughest nights for voters nationwide to decide who ultimately should remain.
Recession hits Social Security and Medicare
The recession has taken a big bite out of Medicare and Social Security, according to the latest reports from the trustees of both of those programs released this week. In both cases, rising unemployment, now at a 25-year high, has impacted the financial strength of the trust funds that finance benefits to retirees and disabled people.
TVA sends spilled coal ash to impoverished Black communities in Georgia and Alabama
The Tennessee Valley Authority has begun shipping toxic coal ash from the massive spill that occurred last December at its Kingston power plant in east Tennessee's Roane County to landfills in the neighboring states of Georgia and Alabama as part of a test to determine a final resting place for the waste.
Cheerios and cholesterol -- don't believe the hype, FDA warns
If you are eating Cheerios because you believe that it will dramatically lower your cholesterol, then forget about it.
Good election news for labor in Texas
Reports from the three large Texas cities which held local elections May 9 are good news for labor. The Dallas AFL-CIO endorsed 6 candidates for City Council. Five of them won outright and the sixth goes into a runoff with the highest vote count. Far more interesting was labor’s call for a “no” vote on two propositions.
US may have decade-long recesssion
Washington, May 12 (Prensa Latina) The US Nobel laureate in Economy Paul Krugman said his country could confront a decade of zero growth if more aggressive incentive measures are not employed informed Economy Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman. Another Nobel personality, Joseph Stiglitz, also predicted recently that the US economic crisis will be long lasting.
Thousands join in candlelight vigils across California
More than a thousand California workers, interfaith leaders, community allies and elected officials kicked the California campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act into overdrive in recent days by participating in statewide overnight vigils.
The role of psychologists in torture
As a psychologist, I have been appalled by the complicity of some psychologists in torturing detainees in former President Bush’s “War on Terror.” How could it be that professionals trained to treat mental illness could be partners in a program to create mental illness? How could there be any debate on the issue, given the clearly stated ethical standards of Psychologists issued by the American Psychological Association (APA) which prohibit any abuse of people?
A thousand scholars urge Congress to pass Employee Free Choice Act
More than a thousand U.S. scholars nationwide are urging Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act labor law reform
