Structural Violence

inequality and the harm it causes

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Malaria

  • February 5, 2012

A Seattle-based global health non-profit is working on a very early-stage malaria vaccine trial (pre-vaccine … they are investigating the body’s immune response under specific conditions, with the hope of[…]

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Documentary on Hans Rosling

  • January 12, 2012

I just came across this documentary on Hans Rosling from 2010 — I can’t believe I didn’t know about it!  For those with an obsessive and numbers-based interest in global[…]

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America, the military state

  • December 21, 2011

America the free? Just a brief contemplation on the direction that institutional violence appears to be running nowadays. A high court has ruled it is illegal to dance at federal[…]

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Tax sweets, subsidize vegetables?

  • September 19, 2011

I feel like I’ve been writing a lot about food lately, and this post will be no exception. An op-ed in the NYT a few weeks ago raised the novel[…]

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Pine Ridge

  • September 19, 2011

PBS Newshour has a short piece, totally worth watching, on the Sioux refusing $1.3bn in compensation.  Although the health issues on Pine Ridge are only briefly mentioned in the beginning[…]

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An ongoing mining boom in Australia

  • September 19, 2011

Interesting video on the mining boom in Australia and the effects on indigenous peoples.  If you’re only going to watch a short portion, watch from 16:55 – 21:00.

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A silent kind of violence

  • July 27, 2011

Much has been said about the tragic events in Norway over the last days.  It goes without saying that every compassionate person feels pain for the families of the victims[…]

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Terrorism and propaganda

  • July 14, 2011

The Guardian has a really interesting article on John Lindh, the “American Taliban” captured in 2001.  I was previously aware that Lindh had been railroaded, but I wasn’t aware of[…]

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Subsidies, food security, and eating right

  • June 10, 2011

The FDA recently revised its ‘food pyramid’ into an easier-to-understand plate graphic.  This is a good first step.  We could debate the veracity of this image, especially since “protein” isn’t[…]

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Pedestrian deaths and vaccination legalities

  • June 3, 2011

There’s a really fascinating interactive gmaps-overlay for pedestrian deaths for 2000-2009 in the US, showing markers for each of the 47,700 pedestrian deaths (full PDF report here).  Each marker contains[…]

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