Archive for July 2025

We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?

The targeting of welfare is no surprise. Recipients of welfare are often castigated as ‘work-shy,’ and ‘scroungers.’ Yet the welfare state’s existence is rarely challenged. Undoubtedly it has been essential for working people, protecting them from the excesses of the free market. But, critically, it has always been valuable for capitalism. Amidst a growing working-class presence, the implementation of state reforms at the turn of the twentieth century was an acknowledgement of the need to cushion the effects of exploitation, or risk rebellion.

Today many of those who as girls who were subjected to the Danish coil campaign in Greenland are dead. In many cases they died of natural causes but in others their deaths resulted from infections of the uterus, which they had to struggle with all their lives. These happened because IUDs were inserted at an unsuitable age, often remaining inside the uterus for years without medical supervision

Activists see the crackdown on alleged obscenity as part of a wider push to suppress LGBTQ expression — an effort that has expanded under President Xi Jinping. China classified homosexuality as a crime until 1997 and a mental illness until 2001. Same-sex marriage is not legal and discrimination remains widespread.

Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri (above) is scheduled to lead a town hall session with stakeholders to provide insights and obtain feedback on the soon-to-be-tabled Social Work Profession Bill. Despite social work and social workers playing a pivotal role in nation-building for over seven decades in Malaysia, the profession and the services they provide are neither regulated nor legally recognised as a profession.

“Yes, video is a tool to show violence,” Gregory said. “But more importantly, it’s a tool to show patterns.” Patterns are what expose systemic, institutionalized corruption and abuse. Patterns allow us to connect an individual’s behavior to the corporate, government, and social structures that have allowed that behavior. Patterns shift the conversation away from the bad apples and instead bring the entire diseased orchard into question.