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Medicare still Superior at Age 57
A majority of Americans support Medicare and want expansion of this program to provide health insurance for all
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Tax the Rich, House the Homeless
In L.A., 1 percenters currently pay less than a 1 percent city tax on the mansions they make millions selling
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SCOTUS EPA Ruling Signals Court Will Strike Down Rules Limiting Corporate Profit
This frightening decision could preempt new regulations the Biden administration’s EPA is developing to fight climate change
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The beginning of the end of regulation
The radical Supreme Court is giving the big business backers of the GOP exactly what they paid for
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Experts Are Worried About the Potential of Another Brutal COVID Winter
Let us find our way to the new year without walking on a road of bones, again
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Global food crisis: Blame capitalism, not Russia’s war in Ukraine
Small farmers are the world’s primary suppliers of food. It’s imperative we listen to them, not the big corporates
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Is Universal Basic Income Part of a Just Transition?
When you give everyone a chunk of change, does it really change their lives and their communities?
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NYC tenants disrupt board vote to increase rents, demand rent rollback
Despite the outcome of the vote, tenants remained determined to keep fighting
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Biden’s Campaign for “Digital Democracy” Is a Giveaway to Big Tech
America forces poor countries to let US-based Big Tech companies steal their data
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Inflation sparks global wave of protests for higher pay, aid
“We will see more protests, probably broader and angrier, but I do not expect destabilizing or regime-changing protests”
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Food Shortage or Economic Crisis?
Experts Say Poverty & Capitalism Are Real Drivers of Global Hunger
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Alone in a sea of marshmallows
Capitalizing on our emotional pain or discomfort, companies use this knowledge to deliver small dopamine hits directing us from distraction to distraction
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FEMA Isn’t the Only Solution to Climate Disaster
Government Must Fund Mutual Aid
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Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong
A half-century long strategy, led by corporations, Wall Street, governments, and central banks, is coming undone
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Should we be working 15-hour weeks?
The five-day workweek is an anachronistic relic of a time when conditions were far different than today
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What are the reasons and evidence inflation has become permanent and chronic—at least until recession sets in?
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Is Universal Basic Income Part of a Just Transition?
When you give everyone a chunk of change, does it really change their lives and their communities?
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US For-Profit Health System Is a Mass Killer
We could stop murdering our own population en masse by adopting a single-payer healthcare
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Corporate masters no longer give journalists the time to go out to investigate
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Our response to the cost-of-living crisis must become a significant chapter and key victory in the class struggle
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What Petro & Hernández Offer Colombia’s Urban Poor
“We are talking about the vulnerability of ecosystems and people”
Zmag
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25 Years of GMOs, and Some New Insights from Argentina
The book, Seeds of Power, offers important insights on the complex dynamics of power and compliance and how they can play out in a broad national context
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GOP Offers Preview of Brutal Climate Policies in Texas
As Americans are subject to the brutal impacts of inevitable climate change, we face a clear choice: strong government intervention to save our lives, or a “survival of the fittest” dystopia
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Your Privileges Are Not Universal
We praise the hopes and struggles of the people, whose desire to advance history will cut through your repression
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The debate over the minimum wage has been lopsided for a very long time
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The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality
Poor, dark-skinned people should not be made to die when their lives can be saved by a simple vaccine, which is available in abundance
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Rising Interest Rates Intended to Create Unemployment
Central banks are raising interest rates to create more desperation amongst workers and weaken their bargaining power
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War is “very profitable for the people who are supplying those weapons to keep it going
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Why New York’s Billionaires’ Row Is Half Empty
Manhattan’s skyscrapers aren’t really built for people anymore
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Interview on a many topics, including the development of his personal political views to the control of information and media
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Interview on the role of US labor internationally including the National Endowment For Democracy NED and the AFL-CIO "Solidariity Center"
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A look at China’s efforts since 2010 to tame its foreign ‘shadow banks’ that have been playing a central role in creating financial bubbles in its residential housing, local infrastructure, and currency markets
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Dissecting key provisions in the Republican Congress’s recently passed ‘Omnibus’ Appropriations bill
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Oil Deflation, Russia’s Recession, and Ukraine Depression
Reviewing the continuing collapse of global oil prices and its effect on the emerging recession in Russia, continuing economic stagnation in Europe, and the deepening Depression in the Ukraine economy
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The Consequences of the Global Oil Price Crash
Talk on how the net effect on the global economy will likely prove to b significantly negative overall, and that the price decline could fall as low as $40/barrel in coming months
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Understanding and Responding to the Global Economic Crisis
Understanding and Responding to The Global Economic Crisis Peter Bohmer...
