Competition in Iraq
Tensions between the United States and Iran reached a boiling point in January 2020 when Iranian-backed forces attacked American military and diplomatic facilities on Iraqi soil, and the United States retaliated. As it appeared that the United States and Iran were teetering towards all-out war, policymakers and experts again asked a recurring series of questions: Why are we in Iraq? Why can ' t we just leave? What would happen if we left, and why would it matter (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - June 4, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Ben Connable; James Dobbins Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Deconstructing Mental Health Month
It’s Mental Health Awareness Month! But what does that mean, exactly? Who are we raising awareness for? Is “mental health” the same as “mental illness?” In this Not Crazy Podcast, Gabe and Lisa ponder the meaning of this decades-old campaign and discuss the pros and cons of the movement.
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Source: World of Psychology - May 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Not Crazy Podcast Policy and Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Reflections on “The American Perception of Substate Threats”
Christopher A. PrebleEditor ’s note: In 2014, Cato releasedA Dangerous World? Threat Perception and U.S. National Security, an edited volume of papers originally presented ata Cato conference the previous year. In each chapter, experts on international security assessed, and put in context, the supposed dangers to American security, from nuclear proliferation and a rising China, to terrorism and climate change.As part of ourProject on Threat Inflation, Cato is republishing each chapter in an easily readable online format. Even six years after its publication, much of the book remains relevant. Policymakers...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 13, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
Judge Allows Warrantless Aerial Surveillance Over Baltimore
Matthew FeeneyIf you are a Baltimore resident there is a chance that over the next few months you will notice a small airplane circling above. Once you learn that it is a surveillance plane used to aid Baltimore police you might wonder how such persistent and warrantless surveillance is constitutional. After all, the Fou rth Amendment of the Bill of Rights protects us from “unreasonable” searches and seizures. What could be more unreasonable that the warrantless use of an eye in the sky to snoop on hundreds of thousands of law abiding residents? The recent ruling from a Maryland district court allowing such sur v...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 29, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Matthew Feeney Source Type: blogs
Perceiving Threats in an Era of Pandemic
James Knupp andChristopher A. PrebleLast week, Cato launched a new project that aims to put various national security challenges and threats to public safety into perspective.With the current COVID-19 pandemic, many people are fearful of one big thing – albeit an invisible thing — but this may in fact be the perfect time to look at how we are often overly afraid of certain dangers, and not scared enough by others.It is with that idea in mind that Cato held a livestream event yesterday, “What Frightens Us? And Why? Threat Perception During and After COVID-19. ” Panelists looked to answer questions such as: What...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 23, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: James Knupp, Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
When life hands you lemons . . .
and then crab apples, and you don ' t have any sugar, you ain ' t making lemonade. My power went out at 1:30 yesterday and didn ' t come back on until 2:30 today. Being unable to charge my devices, I deprived you all of the blog posts you so desperately wanted. I had two very important phone meetings and some other business so I hoarded my batteries. Didn ' t really have anything to eat to speak of the whole time and had to spend my evening reading by flashlight.Oh, boo hoo, poor man. I ' m not sick, nobody I know has gotten sick from this, and Windham County has so far largely been spared. The power outages are indeed bec...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 14, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A righteous rant
David Frum is a neocon who was, among other disgraces, a speechwriter for George W. Bush, ardently supported the invasion of Iraq and even worked for Rudy Giuliani ' s ill fated presidential campaign. So he ' s unforgivable. But even he has the wit to see the White House occupant for the witless narcissistic buffoon he is.And yes, the disaster has fallen upon us because of his utter unworthiness for the office he holds and the bottomless well of his vanity. This is long because it is an exhaustive bill of particulars. If you wish to comment, you must read the whole thing. That is all. (Source: Stayin' Alive)
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 10, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The reification of data
Every day you are reading reports of the number of new Covid cases and deaths in your state, the U.S., other countries and the whole world. You need to know that these numbers are false. They may give an indication of trends, but they are not the actual number of cases and deaths.Let ' s start with cases. The definition of a " case " can vary, but for the most part the numbers you see are the number of positive PCR tests. This is obviously a function of how many people get tested and the sampling frame for those tests. Right now in the U.S. we are not testing a random sample of the population anywhere. We are largely only ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 9, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The coronavirus pandemic is truly like a war
Maybe this sounds dramatic, but the coronavirus is like a war. The soldiers are health care workers. The enemy is the virus. The battlefield is the hospitals. We are finding out that life can turn on a dime. I found that out 30 years ago in August 1990. Iraq invaded Kuwait. I knew as soon […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 29, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/susan-shannon" rel="tag" > Susan Shannon, RN < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
In Remembrance of Jon Basil Utley (1934 –2020)
Christopher A. PrebleThe pro ‐freedom and anti‐war movement lost one of its most dedicated champions this past weekend. Jon Basil Utley was born in the Soviet Union in 1934. His British‐born mother, Freda, had gone there as a pro ‐communist intellectual and writer. But after his father was spirited away to one of Stalin’s gulags (where he was executed in 1938), Freda fled with young Jon and became an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union, including in several bestselling books. They eventually emigrated to the United S tates where Freda hosted meetings of prominent anti ‐communists in th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 23, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Christopher A. Preble Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
March 19, 2020 Edition.-----Well it has all been about COVID-19 this week largely – with the odd rocket fired in Iraq at dissidents.The key points are that the US has declared a state of emergency and are trying to find enough tests to find out just how bad their problem it. Right now they have no idea bur are admitting to 2000 + cases.In the UK Boris is warning that more that usual numbers will die.In Australia things are being cancelled right, left and centre – even the One Day Cricket!. Will cause a rush on Netflix I reckon…----- Major Issues.-----https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/proposed-bill-will-enshrine...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 18, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
The casualties of the Iran missile attack: not your father ’s concussion
Recently, revelations indicated that the Iran missile strike on the U.S. base in Iraq actually did cause head injuries. So why did the U.S. initially claim no “casualties”? From the limited reports available, it appears that most of the soldiers’ symptoms were consistent with concussions. Let’s define terms: In the wars of the 20th century, […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 6, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/michael-brant-zawadzki" rel="tag" > Michael Brant-Zawadzki, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Neurology Source Type: blogs
Reasons to chill and reasons not to chill
Okay, I ' m not an epidemiologist or a virologist. But I do know something about those subjects, I ' m a public health professor, and I am an expert in clinical communication and risk communication. So I ' m going to offer some observations that I hope will help people keep this public health scare in proper perspective and maybe be of practical use.There are two important parameters we need to understand the risk caused by any communicable disease. I ' m going to broadly say transmissibility, and the probability that exposure will lead to serious disease.We often see transmissibility represented as a single number, called...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 26, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Failed Humanitarian Interventions and the “Good Intentions” Dodge
Ted Galen CarpenterIn a newNational Interest Online article,I discuss how advocates of “humanitarian” military interventions resort to a variety of excuses to evade responsibility once their crusades go awry.One especially maddening deflection of responsibility is when proponents insist that their intentions were good, and that the missions should be judged according to that standard.Even Barack Obama seemed to recognize the insufficiency of that defense when he first met Samantha Power, an advocate of the “responsibility to protect” (R2P) doctrine and U.S. involvement in multilateral military interv...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 25, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Iran Claws Back Its Regional Influence
Last year, Iran faced protests at home as well as in Iraq and Lebanon, where thousands rallied against Tehran ' s regional hegemony. But with its recent machinations and the fallout over the killing of Soleimani, Iran has succeeded in changing the regional conversation. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 16, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Jordan R. Reimer Source Type: blogs
