What Medicare for All Would Have Meant a Decade Ago
Jarod Facundo | commondreams.org | 2019-08-06
Imagine if, from birth, a new generation could experience guaranteed care, with quality not determined by wealth or income, but instead delivered as the human right it should be. (Photo: Sen. Bernie Sanders/Twitter) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/medicare_for_all_0.png …
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No Billionaires for Bernie: Alone Among Democratic Frontrunners, Sanders Gets No Cash From Wealthiest Americans
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-06
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Charter School Apologia
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-05
The frenzied promotion of illusions about charter schools by the rich reflects their growing fear of losing the power to impose their narrow interests on the public. Mounting internal and external criticism of privately-operated nonprofit and for-profit charter schools rightly has charter school advocates and their wealthy supporters anxious. In this fractured context, it is …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/charter-school-apologia/

Want to Tackle Unemployment? Reduce Military Spending
Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson, Ben Freeman | thenation.com | 2019-08-05
Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson, Ben Freeman Want to Tackle Unemployment? Reduce Military Spending.
thenation.com/article/defense-industry-spending-bad-job-creator/

Trump's New Tariffs on China Help Pay for his Corporate Tax Cut
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-02
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…
therealnews.com/stories/trumps-new-tariffs-on-china-help-pay-for-his-corporate-tax-cut

Ex-Health Insurance Exec: Industry Is Using Decades-Old Scare Tactics to Fight Medicare for All
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-02
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…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/2/u_s_healthcare_medicare_medicaid_history

Fund Newstart not US wars
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-02
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…
greenleft.org.au/content/fund-newstart-not-us-wars

48 hours of overpolicing in NYC
Karla Reyes | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-31
Recording the police or offering Metrocards will not end the criminalization of poverty, it will not end police terror.
liberationnews.org/48-hours-of-overpolicing-in-nyc/