Tag Archive: Health Care

How Coronavirus Exposed the Flaws of the Childcare Economy

Released for Syndication: 10/23/2020

The pandemic has revealed the barbaric nature of an economy that has largely left the care of children to the whims of market forces. The well-being of children, women, and especially women of color is at stake.

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How Donald Trump Threatens the Retirement of Every American Worker

Released for Syndication: 10/20/2020

Tom Michels worked 31 years at LTV’s iron ore mine in northern Minnesota—and had already started making retirement plans—when the company’s bankruptcy wiped out...

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Latest Election Stunt Proves Uber and Lyft Are Their Own Worst Political Enemies

Released for Syndication: 10/15/2020

Like so much about politics today, the debate around Uber and Lyft’s Proposition 22 in California has quickly become polarized. Simplistic media narratives like...

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How Fascism Has Converged With Capitalism to Redefine Government

Released for Syndication: 10/14/2020

The looming election has brought forward intensifying debates over a capitalism in crisis, rising nationalism and state power, and the possibility of a renewed...

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Venezuela’s Ability to Fight COVID-19 Is Badly Hamstrung by the 31 Metric Tons of Gold Stolen From Its Treasury

Released for Syndication: 10/13/2020

On October 5, 2020, the England and Wales Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision from July that denied the Venezuelan government access...

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How Trump’s Politicization of the COVID-19 Pandemic Put Every American at Risk

Released for Syndication: 10/12/2020

Jackie Anklam realized that Donald Trump was failing the American people when her father died of complications of COVID-19 in a Michigan hospital that...

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Trump Is Waging War on Us—We Ignore It at Our Peril

Released for Syndication: 10/09/2020

The president has made clear that he intends to cling to power at all costs, including the U.S. Constitution and our democracy.

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The GOP Is Pursuing a Public Slaughter Strategy, Known to Some as ‘Herd Immunity’

Released for Syndication: 10/07/2020

People are acting shocked—shocked, I tell you!—that the Trump/GOP strategy on coronavirus is essentially one of promoting herd immunity with the possible downside of...

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Why America’s Economic War on China Is Failing

Released for Syndication: 10/07/2020

U.S. President Donald Trump—supported by most of the U.S. establishment—deepened the U.S. government’s assault on the Chinese economy. The “trade war” seemed to play...

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If We Don’t Act, the Entire U.S. Could Become a ‘Cancer Alley’

Released for Syndication: 10/05/2020

The area with the country’s highest concentration of chemical plants, and highest cancer and COVID-19 mortality rates, is getting worse.

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