By PATRICK COCKBURN - July 27, 2010

Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study.

Criminal negligence is at fault.

More evidence of Israeli oppression.

By BRUCE E. LEVINE - July 22, 2010

While U.S. military psychiatrists are prescribing increasing amounts of chill pills, America’s psychologists are teaching soldiers how to think more positively about their tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and wherever else they are next ordered to kill the bad guys and win the hearts and minds of everyone else...“We’re after creating an indomitable Army.”

By Mike Adams - Tuesday, June 29, 2010

In its never-ending attempt to fabricate "mental disorders" out of every human activity, the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they've invented yet: Healthy Eating Disorder...This is no joke: If you focus on eating healthy foods, you're "mentally diseased" and probably need some sort of chemical treatment involving powerful psychotropic drugs.

Our Guest, Ricardo Alvarez, is the medical director of Clinica Esperanza, the Mission Neighborhood Health Center's HIV clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic serving the needs of mostly Latino uninsured or under-insured HIV patients. Clinica Esperanza is one of the premier HIV clinics in the city of San Francisco.

By Andrew Pinto MD, Malika Sharma MD and Michaela Beder MD - July 5, 2010

Violence against property got coverage but broken bones and eyes filled with pepper spray did not. This violence in Toronto streets echoes what the summit will do to the world's poor.

July 07, 2010 - Toronto Star

In one case, a 15-year-old girl's “moderately eccentric interests” in origami and the study of bugs were cited by a psychiatrist at Youthdale Treatment Centre as examples of a possible mental disorder. Another teen's admission of having unprotected sex was taken as evidence of a suicide wish...“Secure treatment is not a placement substitute for child welfare...”

By Jeff Shantz - June 27, 2010

As the state capitalist carnivals of the G8/G20 got underway in cottage country and Toronto widespread public outrage focused on the $1.3 billion security extravagance—the fences, security cameras, weapons, vehicles and mass policing that have become regular features of such elite get-togethers.

By Toronto Street Medics - June 28, 2010

Volunteers who provided first aid at the G20 protests this weekend are calling for an independent investigation into injuries caused by police. “There has been a lot of focus on violence against property, but we are calling attention to violence against people”...“[W]e demand an investigation into violent police action at these protests...People were beaten simply for exercising their right to demonstrate.”

One of many hundreds in America's gulag.

Our first guest is Georgia Schreiber, Board Chair of California Prison Focus (CPF). CPF staff work with prisoners and their family members to expose human rights abuses with a larger vision of closing the SHU and ultimately abolishing California's racist, genocidal prison system.

By Boris Kagarlitsky - June 18, 2010

A new bill has been passed in Russia that will extensively roll back Government funding of education, the arts and social services...The new federal law represents a conscious attempt to destroy the progress Russia had achieved in the educational, social services and cultural spheres over the course of the 20th century.

By MARTHA ROSENBERG - June 4-6, 2010

...[A]ttendees to last week's American Psychiatric Association (APA) annual meeting in New Orleans had to brave 200 protestors chanting "no drugging kids for money" and "no conflicts of interest"...Since 2008 when Congress investigated some APA psychiatrists for alleged drug industry conflicts of interest, more light has shone between the two groups, historically almost indistinguishable.

...[L]arge numbers of Medicaid-covered kids are being prescribed major tranquilizing and physically dangerous anti-psychotic drugs for being rebellious...[I]f you are a poor kid in the U.S., you are four times more likely to be prescribed anti-psychotic drugs than if you are not poor...And being poor also means you have a decent chance of receiving anti-psychotic drugs even if you have no psychiatric condition at all.