Nicotine pouches—small, smokeless packets tucked under the lip—deliver nicotine without burning tobacco. They eliminate the tar, carbon monoxide, and carcinogens that make cigarettes so deadly. The logic of harm reduction couldn’t be clearer: if smokers can get nicotine without smoke, millions of lives could be saved. Sweden has already proven […]
Big Medicare changes are coming. My plan was cancelled. Will yours? Expect Skinnier Benefits, Higher Premiums and Fewer Options Open enrollment for 2026 is underway. The Wall Street Journal reports Big Changes Are Coming for 2026 Medicare Plans. Note: That is a free link courtesy of the WSJ. Last year, seniors […]
Several incidents in the COVID pandemic’s first two years forced me to confront the uncomfortable reality that American society had cracked apart, fleeing the comfort and safety of accepted knowns to float untethered from logic in a foreign ether far from planet Earth. Welcome to Mars. But prior incidents had […]
Story at-a-glance Magnesium quietly powers your body’s most important functions, from steady nerve signaling to smooth muscle movement and clear thinking. When levels drop too low, the effects show up as fatigue, poor sleep, cramps, or that stubborn brain fog that doesn’t seem to lift. Unlike many other nutrients, this […]
The mainstream media is beginning a fear-mongering campaign over seasonal influenza. Many sources claim that, along with the changing weather and declining immunity, flu season is upon us, and this year it could spark a new pandemic. Accoridng to a report by The Times of India, a new pandemic has already […]
In order to understand, gain precious insight into what is going on for your health protection, it’s necessary to discern the following recurring misleading health news reports. -The fact that these recurring misleading health news reports are still extant only reflects on how gullible and misled the public still are […]
What could possibly be causing this? Suicide rates among Gen Z adults have unnaturally increased in the U.S. over the past ten years according to new figures. Axios Notes that there has been a 16.4 percent increase in suicides among the demographic between 2014-2024. The locations where the rise is most prominent, the […]
Introduction Global public health has long been animated by moral purpose and collective ambition. When nations join under the banner of “health for all,” it reflects both humanitarian conviction and political calculation. Yet, the architecture of global health governance often produces outcomes that diverge from its lofty ideals. The World […]
Antonio Gramsci argued that propaganda is the main fabric through which contemporary power asserts itself. For Gramsci, propaganda is central to cultural hegemony; in other words, the dominance of a particular worldview (often that of the ruling class or elite) that is so deeply internalised by society that it becomes ‘common sense’ and uncritically accepted as natural and inevitable. There are many reasons why transnational agribusiness has been able to secure […]
WE SHUT our schools, we emptied our streets, we shuttered our shops not because reason demanded it, but because fear commanded it. We followed the models, not the evidence. We fought a virus by locking down the healthy. We sacrificed livelihoods on the altar of safety. And we were told […]