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Cancer Amongst Us and The Rise of All the Children of Light
Paperback
Health GeneralComparative ReligionGeneral Political Science
Publisher: Self
Published: Sep 27 2025
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This Is Your Life Story
More than 30 million Americans cannot afford health insurance, and over 100 million insured individuals struggle with copays and out-of-pocket expenses - even as four major insurance companies generate nearly $1.2 trillion in revenue and hold a significant share of the national debt.
Those who become seriously ill, especially cancer patients, are often overtreated and overcharged. Looking at just six widely used drugs, Americans pay more than $80 billion above fair pricing each year, while major pharmaceutical companies collectively take in over $600 billion annually.
For decades, the United States has been drawn into costly, unwinnable wars that expand the nation's weapons arsenal rather than its security. These conflicts have added more than $13 trillion to the national debt in just a few decades.
Meanwhile, books, films, and news media often present selective or distorted histories that justify ongoing conflict, rising debt, and ever-expanding military spending. Cultural narratives are reshaped in ways that erode shared values and obscure accountability.
Across these sectors - insurance, pharmaceuticals, weapons manufacturing, and media - financial power is concentrated in institutions that shape policy to protect their own interests. Elected officials too often serve these institutions rather than the people who put them in office.
The cost is borne by ordinary Americans: by families struggling with medical bills, by children who will inherit staggering debt, and by vulnerable children around the world whose lives are touched by conflict.
This book tells the story of three girls - one Jewish, one Christian, and one Muslim Palestinian - from a small town west of Jerusalem. Their lives reflect a long history of coexistence among Jews, Christians, and Muslims across the Middle East, Andalusia, and North Africa. They embody the shared moral teachings found in the Qur'an, the Bible, and the Torah.
The narrative then explores how modern political identities, migrations, and historical interpretations have shaped the region's conflicts. It examines how economic interests - including those tied to natural resources and global markets - influence political narratives, historical claims, and public understanding.
Drawing on the work of historians, archaeologists, and scholars, the book highlights how competing interpretations of history have fueled suffering for hundreds of thousands of children and families.
It also outlines how Americans have been affected by trillions of dollars in national debt accumulated over decades of foreign entanglements and domestic health-care monopolies. It shows how profits from overpriced treatments and consolidated insurance markets flow into financial institutions that shape U.S. policy abroad. Through concentrated influence over media, defense contracting, and political fundraising, these institutions have contributed to a shift from a once-prosperous nation to one burdened by rising debt, growing poverty, and inadequate care for its own children.
Through All the Children of Light, the book calls for deep reform in America's political, financial, social, and medical systems - and for the protection of children everywhere.
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