9/14 Changed Everything
Over the last decade and a half, we ’ve heard over and over again that “September 11th changed everything”—but maybe September 14 was the pivotal date. Sixteen years ago today, Congress passed the2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF). Aimed at the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks and those who “harbored” or “aided” them, the AUMF has been transformed into an enabling act for globe-spanning presidential war. “I don’t think one generation should bind another generation to war,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) insists, but that ’s exactly what’s happened: the AUMF Congress passed in 2001 st...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 14, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Gene Healy Source Type: blogs
Terrorism and the New Domino Theory
Several weeks ago the Defense Departmentrevealed it is seriously considering drone strikes against Islamist terrorists in the Philippines, which would make it the eighth country the United States has bombed in the war on terror. Certainly the terrorists —who have operated in various forms there for over a hundred years—are a threat to Filipinos. They are not, however, a threat to the United States. Why, then, would the United States start bombing?The answer may lie in the misguided theory driving American thinking about terrorism.During the Cold War, America ’s political leaders subscribed to the domino theory. The t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 28, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall, Erik Goepner Source Type: blogs
Vietnam, Afghanistan and U.S. Decisionmaking
In 1979, Leslie Gelb and Richard Betts released a book on U.S. involvement in Vietnam, entitled “The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked. ” Unlike most previous treatments of the conflict, Gelb and Betts didn’t argue that the U.S. failure in Vietnam was the result of a poor foreign policymaking process. Nor did they argue that policymakers had been misinformed or misled about the conflict. They didn’t even argue that policymaker s were under any illusions about how unlikely success in Vietnam was.Instead, Gelb and Betts argued that – while the war in Vietnam itself was an abject failure for American foreign polic...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 23, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Emma Ashford Source Type: blogs
Healthcare As a Moral Universal
By DAVID INTROCASO
In mid-July 3 Quarks Daily posted an essay written by Umair Haque, a London-based consultant and frequent contributor to the online Harvard Business Review, that argued “the American experiment is at an end.” This is because unlike every other rich country the US lacks, Haque stated, essential moral universals defined as “sophisticated, broad and expansive public goods that improve by the year.” These include higher education, a responsible media, transport, welfare and healthcare. Democracies depend on these moral universals available to everyone because these benefits educate, inform and al...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Smell as a Weapon, and Odor as Entertainment
The use of smell as a weapon, or a deterrent, was explored in a fanciful way in myprevious post on nuclear threats. While poking around the literature, I found a fascinating unclassified document from the Army Research Laboratory,Olfaction Warfare: Odor as Sword and Shield (PDF). The authors provide a sweeping overview of odor, from chemical tactics in the natural world to the use of scents in the beauty and entertainment industries. The primary military application discussed by Schmeisser et al. (2013) is the use of odor in stealth operations. These are designed to deceive the enemy by masking current location or projecti...
Source: The Neurocritic - August 19, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - August 2017
I ’ve put down the pitchfork and shovel, returning to the keyboard to update everyone about our Sanctuary progress. Here ’s what’s happened over the past few weeks.As Kathy wrote on Facebook on July 25, Pippin, our 30 year old Welsh Pony passed away from cancer. His last few months included daily play with three other ponies, walks in the woods, and generous servings of grain/treats. He was the centerpiece of our horse work at the sanctuary and we miss him every day. He ’s buried on a hill covered with oaks overlooking the barnyard marked by a large flat stone.The sanctuary volunte...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - August 17, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Monuments
Public monuments matter. They make assertions about the values shared by the groups that erect and maintain them. When those entities are governments, in a purportedly democratic society, the monuments are claims about the public consensus.Monuments are also considerably more complicated than one might think without giving them much reflection. For one thing, they are time dependent. They purport to be about a person, or multiple people, or events. But that which is memorialized existed, or happened, some time before they were erected. So as statements, they refer not to the time of their subjects, but to the time of their...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 17, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Health care in American is on life support, and the future is uncharted
This article originally appeared in the Huffington Post. He can be reached at his self-titled site, Dr. Manoj Jain.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 7, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/manoj-jain" rel="tag" > Manoj Jain, MD, MPH < /a > Tags: Policy Health reform Medicare Obama Source Type: blogs
Success-Syndrome: The Ambition-Depression Connection
When she was just 13 years old, Jenn Cohen fell in love with the circus and was determined to make a career out of it, which was highly unusual at the time.She explained in an inspiring TEDx talk that she worked incredibly hard to get to a point in her career where she “arrived,” performing in Europe, garnering accolades and attention — the place where she always aspired to be.
And yet she felt empty.
“I was under the illusion that once I was able to prove myself, that those feelings of self-doubt and low self-worth would disappear,” she said.
She did feel confident for a moment … but then crashed into a...
Source: World of Psychology - August 2, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Self-Esteem Success & Achievement Ambition Bipolar disorder and acceptance Depressive Episode Mood Disorder Source Type: blogs
Fatal Fallacies in the War on Terror
As I argue in my recently publishedpolicy analysis here at Cato, the American-led war on terror has clearly failed. Unfortunately, rather than accept the obvious fact that the campaign was badly misguided and focusing homeland security efforts in more fruitful areas, the Trump administration appears ready to embrace, and perhaps even to escalate, the American commitment in the Middle East. Though President Trump himself has frequently voiced concerns about nation building in Iraq and the mission in Afghanistan, few of his senior advisers appear to share his worries. And sadly, few voices from the foreign policy establishme...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 20, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: A. Trevor Thrall Source Type: blogs
Death by Poison
Poison has been used for many purposes since humans have existed, often for assassination or assassination attempts. Some of those make the news, the most recent being the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.Authorities identified the nerve agent VX on his face, and video corroborated two women wiping a substance on his face before his collapse and death. VX is the most potent nerve agent, and was developed in the United States in the 1950s during the Cold War. It is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, and exerts its effects like organophosphate insecticides. Victims develop...
Source: The Tox Cave - May 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Heroin in Vietnam: The True Story of the Robins Study
Editor's note: The famous Robins study on heroin use among Vietnam veterans has been sooften —and so recently—misinterpreted that I felt motivated to reprint an older post on the subject.[Originally posted 7/24/10]In 1971, under the direction of Dr. Jerome Jaffe of the Special Action Office on Drug Abuse Prevention, Dr. Lee Robins of Washington University in St. Louis undertook an investigation of heroin use among young American servicemen in Vietnam. Nothing about addiction research would ever be quite the same after the Robins study. The results of the Robins investigation turned the official story of ...
Source: Addiction Inbox - March 25, 2017 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
University of Maryland Ear, Nose & Throat Team Preparing, Fundraising for Annual Volunteer Medical Mission
The University of Maryland Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) team is gearing up for their next volunteer medical mission trip – and they’re hoping you can help them help more people. The team, led by head and neck surgeons Rodney Taylor, MD and Jeffrey Wolf, MD, has begun fundraising for their March 2017 medical mission to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
The team is kicking off fundraising with a happy hour at Pen & Quill in Mount Vernon this Thursday, December 8th, from 5-8 pm. A portion of the proceeds and silent auction earnings will contribute to the team’s fundraising efforts.
Every year, the ENT team travels to differe...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - December 6, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Doctors Events Service dr jeffrey wolf dr rodney taylor ear nose throat medical missions vietnam volunteer Source Type: blogs
Obama Announces End to Arms Embargo on Vietnam
President Obama’s trip to Asia is off to a running start with the announcement that the United States will lift a decades-long American arms embargo on Vietnam. Initial commentary on the announcement has been generally positive, portraying the end of the embargo as the most recent in a string of events signaling improved relations with America’s former adversary in an increasingly dangerous region. So, what comes next in the U.S.-Vietnam defense relationship?
1. How will China react?
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs had a relatively quiet response to the announcement thus far. However, increased American military...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 24, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Eric Gomez Source Type: blogs
