Opiod deaths passed the 30,000 mark in the US in 2015, an increase of nearly 5000 deaths from 2014. Deaths from drugs like fentanyl rose by 75% from 2014 to 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and for the first time there were more deaths from heroin than from the traditional …
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There is nothing wrong with lobbying – it is part of our democratic right to make our point of view heard. It is quite another matter the way huge lobbying law firms have thrived on the twisting of the system to benefit big corporations, the super-rich, and a variety of seedy foreign interests. Even …
The Oxford English Dictionary picks a word of the year every year. This year it has chosen “post- truth”, defined as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which the objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to the emotions and personal beliefs”. This obviously relates to Brexit and the …
“I support Israel,” says Jeff Jacoby, “which is why I don’t support US aid to Israel. That might seem a non sequitur, but it makes perfect sense. For decades, the traditional pro-Israel view has been that military aid from Washington – now $3.1bn a year – is a vital cornerstone of the US-Israel alliance. But …
Prior to Trump the rich and the big corporations got their way by paying the election expenses of the Congressmen or hiring expensive lobbyists. Now a new age has dawned – they don’t have to pretend any longer. Only in America, new stats show, could packing an incoming administration with gazillionaires be so easy. People …
