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My Life in Corporate Medicine

Stephanie Arnold, Maureen Tkacik The American Prospect
Meet a millennial family physician who is also a one-woman antidote to private equity and the forces that have destroyed compassionate treatment for patients.

Montana Kids Win Historic Climate Lawsuit

Amber Polk The Conversation
Judge Kathy Seeley’s ruling in the youths’ favor sets a powerful precedent for the role of “green amendments” in climate litigation.

EU for the Few

The Left Berlin
The right to safety and pursuit of happiness belongs to every human being. This can be reached only through freedom of movement as a universal right.

The Raw, the Cooked and the Hydrolysed

Fred Warren The Dark Mountain Project
Marketing departments inject Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs) with stories ranging from the banal (a cereal box cartoon character) and aspirational (health promises), to the manipulative such as ads picturing fast food eating as the center of family life

Workers and Climate

Various Various
Workers are suffering the impacts of climate change in myriad ways. Who is at increased risk, and what can be done to reduce suffering?

This Week in People’s History, August 15 – 21

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Photographic portrait of abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet
Debating the abolition of slavery in 1843. Klaus Barbie's friends in the CIA in 1983. Birth of a hero in 1913. If I Had a Hammer in 1962. U.S. meddling in Iran in 1953. The War on Poverty starts in 1964. U.S. meddling in Vietnam in 1963.