Public Health is the most recent site of structural violence and control. What can we do? We have a responsibility as intellectuals to speak truth and expose lies in media, government, elite institutions, and in our own communities. Noam Chomsky warned us in the 60s of the need to hold systems of power to account and avoid the tendency to align our professional priorities with state power. The political economy of misinformation and managed chaos in the Trump Administration is the new frontier; and we must learn to navigate this terrain if we are to outlast the fusillades of fascist ideology that is upon us. Public Health is the best example for how state power and private interests work together to systematically deconstruct the very principles underlying the structures of care on which our public health and human services delivery system is built. Root and stem, they move with precision to exploit vulnerabilities, create controversies, and disrupt the financial and regulatory systems...
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