Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
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IT WAS a message to warm the heart — a daughter thanking the care worker who took the time to dance with her dementia-suffering dad at the end of each home visit.
Little did she realise that this “thanks” also holds the key to breaking our collective obsession with “growth-based” economics.
Conventional economics describes acts of human kindness in entirely pejorative terms.
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