With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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It is for the Nicaraguan people to determine their future
With Nicaragua coming under increasing pressure from Washington, TONY BURKE explains why defending the country’s right to self-determination is of paramount importance
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
SUCCESSIVE US administrations have over the years done everything they can to crush Nicaragua.
Over 40 years ago, during the Thatcher-Reagan cold war era, the US launched an undeclared mercenary war that cost some 30,000 lives and devastated the Nicaraguan economy.
An intense media campaign, which bears striking similarities to what is happening today, depicted Nicaragua as a communist totalitarian dungeon with troops poised to storm the Texan border.
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