(2019-08-05). Want to Tackle Unemployment? Reduce Military Spending. thenation.com Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson, Ben Freeman Want to Tackle Unemployment? Reduce Military Spending.
(2019-08-05). Rethinking Medicare for All — slightly. nationofchange.org After listening to the second set of Democratic debates, I realized that there exists a substantial divide among the presidential candidates on the question of whether private healthcare plans should be abolished once Medicare for All is provided by the government. I think that the question can be answered by looking at the way the education system is run in Finland. | "If you require all Americans to be insured through the same system, then the wealthy Americans are in the same boat with everyone else. Instead of wasting energy trying to cut services from the government health system (and trying to save money…
(2019-08-05). Can inequality be hardwired into our DNA? nationofchange.org Remember the college admissions scandal? Earlier this year we learned that awesomely affluent parents have been spending small fortunes on scams to get their undeserving teenage offspring into America's most elite colleges and universities. | This admissions scandal crept back into the news cycle earlier this week when Vanity Fair reported that the wealthy parents of one California teen had plo…
(2019-08-05). If Inequality Continues to Grow at Current Rate, Richest Americans Will Own 100% of US Wealth in 33 Years: Analysis. commondreams.org "However you slice it, the rich have been getting richer. Lots richer." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/jeff_bezos_inequality.jpg …
(2019-08-02). Ex-Health Insurance Exec: Industry Is Using Decades-Old Scare Tactics to Fight Medicare for All. democracynow.org 
The Democratic presidential candidates remain deeply divided on how to expand healthcare to the tens of millions of Americans who are uninsured or underinsured. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have both pushed for abolishing private health insurance and establishing a Medicare for All system. Their rivals have pushed a number of different, more incremental approaches. During the first night of the latest debates, Sanders pointed out that the country has taken sweeping action before to expand health coverage to millions of Americans, referring to the 50th anniversary of the creation of Medicare and Me…
(2019-08-02). Trump's New Tariffs on China Help Pay for his Corporate Tax Cut. therealnews.com 
Trump's claim that China is paying for the tariffs is completely false and basically serves to redirect income from his poor supporters to his wealthy supporters. Not only that, the policy will have the consequence of further isolating the United States, says Michael Hudson…
(2019-08-02). Fund Newstart not US wars. greenleft.org.au 
More than 700,000 Australians are struggling to survive on $40 dollars a day while $200 billion is being set aside over the next 10 years for Australia's military, largely to support US wars, according to the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN). | IPAN spokesperson Shirley Winton said: "In the past five years, government spending on social and community services has been severely cut back while the Australian governments' military spending on supporting US offensive wars and the military-industrial complex has increased exponentially. | "Over 700,000 Australians depend on Newstart unemployment benef…
(2019-07-31). 48 hours of overpolicing in NYC. liberationnews.org 
Recording the police or offering Metrocards will not end the criminalization of poverty, it will not end police terror.
(2019-07-30). Greece: Suicide or Murder? dissidentvoice.org Pundits from the left, from the right and from the center cannot stop reporting about Greece's misery. And rightly so because the vast majority of her people live in deep economic hardship. No hope. Unemployment is officially at 18%, with the real figure closer to 25% or 30%; pensions have been reduced about ten times …