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Exploring economic inequality – Advocating for the bottom 50%
Government Accuses Health System of Paying Docs Outrageous Salaries for Patient Referrals – Medscape
“Erlanger also changed its compensation model to include large salaries for medical director and academic positions and allegedly paid such salaries to physicians without ensuring the required work was performed. As a result, Erlanger physicians with profitable referrals were among the highest paid in the nation for their specialties, the government claims.”
It looks like “ironclad” US support for Israel has begun to rust as Americans witness slaughter in Gaza and some learn more about long-standing treatment of Palestinians (land seizure, race-based laws, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, abuse of political prisoners, assassination of family members of political opponents). Americans would pay more attention to the checks their representatives in Congress get from AIPAC if their sons and daughters were sent to fight to help Netanyahu maintain power.
‘Squad’ member Cori Bush will lose Democratic primary in Missouri, CNN projects
“‘She sold out our president, and she sold out the city of St. Louis,’ a person says in an ad by the United Democracy Project, the super PAC of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The group spent about $9 million on ads attacking Bush or boosting Bell.”
Under the Cover of War: The Zionist Expulsion of the Palestinians – Rosemary Esber
“The Nakba – a mini-holocaust for the Palestinian people – is a key point in the history of Palestine and Israel. That year, a country and its people disappeared from international maps and dictionaries. The Nakba resulted in the destruction of much of Palestinian society, and much of the Arab and Islamic landscape was obliterated by the Israeli state – a state created by a European settler-colonial community that immigrated into Palestine in the period between 1882 and 1948. From the territory occupied by Israel in 1948–9, about 90 percent of the Palestinians were ethnically cleansed – many by psychological warfare and /or military pressure and a large number at gunpoint…
“Coinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba, Rosemary M. Esber’s Under the Cover of War is an important addition to the growing body of scholarship on 1948. The book also helps to make sense of the ferocity of the recent Israeli onslaught against the people of Gaza, 85 percent of whom are refugees from 1948.
“The book, which builds on a revised and substantially updated doctoral dissertation submitted to SOAS (University of London) several years ago, combines three types of sources: a) refugee testimonials, including 130 interviews with refugees from Jordan, Lebanon and the United States; b) a range documents from UN, US and British archives and c) recent works by Israeli revisionist historians relying on Hebrew archival sources.”
Bangladesh protesters want Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead government – Al Jazeera
“Yunus, 84, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 after he pioneered microlending. Known as the ‘banker to the poor’, he faced corruption accusations in Bangladesh and was put on trial during Hasina’s rule, but maintained the charges against him were politically motivated.”
For Sex Workers, Stigma Is a Barrier to Healthcare – Medscape
“The claim that sex work is a job like any other ‘is the starting point for a nondiscriminatory approach toward sex workers,’ said Hermine Gbedo, secretary of the Committee for the Civil Rights of Prostitutes, an Italian organization. ‘Think about those who are victims of assault or violence and show up in the emergency room. A nondiscriminatory approach is fundamental to good care for these individuals. Associations that work for the rights of sex workers can act as a bridge.'”
Italy’s abortion divisions sharpen under Meloni’s leadership – Reuters
BOOM: Judge Rules Google Is a Monopolist – Matt Stoller/BIG
“The government’s case against Google was simple. The search giant pays tens of billions of dollars a year to companies that distribute search engines – Apple, LG, Motorola, Samsung, AT&T, T-Mobile, Mozilla, Opera, UCWeb, and Verizon – to make sure it was the only search engine consumers saw.”
In this article, Israel’s finance minister (their Janet Yellen) says the only thing stopping Israel from exterminating the 2 million Gazans still alive is international pressure. Why do Americans want to be associated with people and governments like this and give them taxpayer $$ to carry out their wishes?
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“The US should take a hard look at the Netanyahu government’s brutality before giving it more weapons”
Gaza needs trained doctors. Israel is blocking Palestinian physicians like me – CNN
Elderly increasingly abandoned on streets of India – AP
Disowned By Family, Old Age Home Dwellers In India Are Just Waiting For Death – Times of India
Regulation of Long-Term Care Homes for Older Adults in India – NIH
“The rising aging population in India has led to an increased caregiving burden, and accordingly, the number of residential care facilities is also burgeoning. There is no regulatory framework or registration authority specifically for residential care homes in India.”
In India, demand for paid long term care (LTC) is growing as modern life undermines the family’s traditional role in caring for the elderly and the population ages. India has yet to pass laws and develop regulations for LTC facilities. Is there an opportunity for collaboration between nursing home and assisted living industry leaders and government officials in the US, which is fine tuning its many regulations, and their counterparts in India? Staff training and development could be one area of mutual interest. Both countries face a shortage of LTC staff, which in the US are among the lowest paid workers.
Best Old Age Homes in India – industry video
Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj – WID
Sunday, August 4, 2024
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