Articles by Mark Karlin
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Helen Caldicott on Our Denial of the Threat of Nuclear Armageddon
Mark Karlin interviews Helen Caldicott | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2017
29 Nov 2017 – Donald Trump’s vow to increase and “upgrade” the United States nuclear arsenal, tensions between the US and North Korea, and the unsecured stockpiles of aging weapons around the globe make it clear we still need to be concerned about this apocalyptic danger. Since the corporate media give short shrift to the peril of nuclear weapons, most world residents are unaware of how close we are to nuclear annihilation.
→ read full articleA Tale of Two Economies: Skyrocketing Stock Market for the Rich, Devaluation of Work for the Rest
Mark Karlin - Truthout,
10 Sep 2012
The rich are making out like bandits in the booming Wall Street economy that is based on profits squeezed out of firing workers, lowering net wages (adjusted for inflation), and outsourcing jobs to exploited labor overseas. There is no crisis in the top 1%; there is only increasing wealth.
→ read full articleIs Big Pharma Peddling Narcotics? Take Oxycontin, For Instance
Mark Karlin, Buzzflash – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
It is difficult to believe that Big Pharma is not aware of this growing abuse of legal drugs. It is difficult to fathom that their actuarial predictions of profit don’t take into account the addictive and widespread abuse of narcotics. Perhaps they are indeed innocent bystanders to this spreading problem, but then the companies that make such effective medications would have to be deaf, blind, and dumb, because there is no way to ignore the “legal” drugs that are decimating sections of America.
→ read full articleWhich is the Biggest Drug Cartel in the World? Big Pharma
Mark Karlin, Buzzflash – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2012
Big Pharma has not lost the opportunity to push pain-killing drugs, and off-label use of many drugs, both of which result in “collateral damage” injury and death. Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, told Truthout that more US citizens die from opiate overdoses due to legally prescribed pharmaceuticals than from heroin.
→ read full articleRemembering Howard Zinn on the Anniversary of His Death and Germinating the Seeds of Truth
Mark Karlin, Buzzflash editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2011
“You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” Howard Zinn said. Although he died over a year ago (January 27, 2010), no statement could be more timely considering the upheaval in Egypt.
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