Geopolitics
Middle East Eye – Labour conference blocks motion to cancel Palantir contract over Israeli army links
Palantir has a £330m contract to process the UK’s National Health Service data. Read the article HERE.
Healthcare
Geopolitics
Hazim Faisal Abusondos – I am a doctor in the occupied West Bank. Our hospitals are dying.
The West Bank is being deliberately made unbearable to live in, as part of Israel’s ethnic cleansing plan. Dr Hazim Faisal Abusondos is a physician in the emergency room and oncology ward at Dura Hospital […]
Fake News
Carsten Eickhoff – AI health answers sound convincing but are wrong about half of the time
People are increasingly getting their information from profit-driven chatbots which present their recommendations as full-proof when they are anything but. Carsten Eickhoff is a Professor of Medical Data Science and Computer Science at the University […]
Geopolitics
Linda Pentz Gunter – The medical students who survived genocide and graduated
A remarkable story of resilience against all the odds. Linda Pentz Gunter is a writer based in Takoma Park, Maryland. She is the international specialist at Beyond Nuclear. This article is written in her personal […]
Privatisation
David Rowland – How privatising ADHD diagnosis robs the NHS of resources
Absolutely scandalous profiteering out of the UK’s national health service going on in plain sight. David Rowland is the Director of the Centre for Health and the Public Interest. He previously worked for over a […]
National Politics
Ronan Burtenshaw: How the NHS was won
Interesting piece on the struggle which was required to establish the UK’s National Health Service, on its 75th anniversary. Read the article HERE.