By Sam Gleaden, mental health worker The ‘low serotonin’ hypothesis has been the backbone of the psychiatric approach to depression for the past 40 years.
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Davos 23: going pear-shaped
By Michael Roberts This week, the jamboree of the rich global elite of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has started again after the COVID interregnum.
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Polycrisis and depression in the 21st century
By Michael Roberts ‘Polycrisis’ is the buzz word among leftists right now. The word expresses the coming together and interlocking of various crises: economic (inflation
By John Pickard In part 1, we looked at how carbohydrates in general are more refined and available in greater abundance than they were in
By John Pickard For many people who are not of a religious persuasion, including yours truly, Christmas is still a time for eating good food
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Planning and the climate
By Michael Roberts The only way humanity has a chance of avoiding a climate disaster will be through a global plan based on common ownership
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COP15: the two horsemen of the apocalypse
By Michael Roberts COP15 started this week in Montreal, Canada. This is the UN’s biodiversity summit. In effect, it is an international meeting to discuss
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Twitter welcomes back thousands of Nazis
By John Pickard While the UK government is putting through parliament a rather tame bill to oblige social media companies to protect children who go
By Michael Roberts Kohei Saito is an associate professor at Tokyo University and an erudite Marxist scholar. Not a candidate for a best-seller in the
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Another cop out?
By Michael Roberts COP 27 started over the weekend. COP stands for the conference of the parties under the UNFCCC. Under the 1992 UN framework
