Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America | Planet Money:
"As far as the federal government is concerned, you're disabled if you have a medical condition that makes it impossible to work. In practice, it's a judgment call made in doctors' offices and courtrooms around the country. The health problems where there is most latitude for judgment -- back pain, mental illness -- are among the fastest growing causes of disability."
Postponing the World’s Financial Winter – For How Long? Iran’s MAD Standoff
with the Rest of the World
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Micheal Hudson describes how the US and Iran threats against energy
production is MAD, as in mutual assured destruction.
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