All Views Articles for 2019-02-08

Friday, February 8, 2019
At least one in ten adults delay or forgo needed care entirely due to cost, a number that jumps to one in five for adults in worse health, and nearly one in three for people who have no insurance. (Photo: Michael Fleshman/flickr/cc) Chuck Idelson
We All Have "Skin in the Game." That's Why We Need Medicare for All.
On the ongoing push to skin patients needing care
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Perhaps the strike is not really extinct. (Photo: Screenshot) John Buell
Labor Strikes, Once Blunted by GOP and Corporations, are Back and Shaping Public Policy
Even within the private sector there are stirrings we have not heard in many years
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Ocasio-Cortez and Markey Announce the Green New Deal. (Photo: Bill Clark/AP) Heather Smith
The Green New Deal Is Out. Now What?
Ocasio-Cortez and Markey are here to make America dream big again
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Denver Classroom Teachers Association teachers and supporters rally at the Colorado State Capitol demanding better wages and urging the state not to get involved in a possible strike on January 30, 2019. ( Photo: Andy Cross/Denver Post via Getty Images) Sarah Jones
Red for Ed Continues: Where Teachers’ Strikes Are Set to Spread Next
A collective anger was un-bottled last year, so it’s not surprising that teachers are continuing to take collective action
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Us Military Base in Oahu, Hawaii ( Photo: MilitaryBases.com) Ann Wright
North Korean Missiles are Not the Threat to Hawaii—It’s Our Own U.S. Military’s Leaking Jet Fuel Storage Tanks
it’s time to retire the leaking Red Hill Storage tanks—and protect our precious water supply
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Christian Christensen
The Right-Wing Press and Violence Against Women: Terrible When Abroad, Ignored When at Home
To these outlets, progressive politics on gender equality is not evidence of a more enlightened view of society, but of a capitulation to the tyranny of egalitarianism
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks during a news conference in front of the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 7 in Washington. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Eugene Robinson
A ‘Green New Deal’ Sounds Like Pie in the Sky. But We Need It.
Climate change is the most important story of our time
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In short, there is every reason to believe that Pecker is entangled with the Saudi royal court of King Salman, perhaps, as Bezos alleges, in search of investment opportunities. (Photo: Getty Images) Juan Cole
Did the National Enquirer Blackmail Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to Protect the Saudi Crown Prince?
Is Pecker secretly one of the more powerful men in the world, holding files on politicians and celebrities and coercing them behind the scenes?
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Although Venezuela is not technically at war, it is suffering from foreign currency strains triggered by aggressive attacks by a foreign power. U.S. economic sanctions have been going on for years, causing the country at least $20 billion in losses. (Photo: Alex Lanz / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Ellen Brown
The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy
"Capitalism is quite simply incapable of regulating itself, and that is precisely where progressive governments and progressive government legislation needs to step in."
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A volunteer hands out a poster as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was set to address a “Medicare for All” rally in downtown Columbia, S.C., in October 2018. (Photo: Meg Kinnard / AP) Sonali Kolhatkar
Everybody Wants ‘Medicare for All’—Except Our Leaders
The enemies are manifold: Republicans seeking to end all government assistance, private insurance companies seeking to preserve the status quo, and Democrats backing those companies
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Gorbachev and Reagan sign the INF Treaty in 1987. (Photo: Wikipedia) Lawrence Wittner
Don’t Expect Rulers of Nuclear-Armed Nations to Accept Nuclear Disarmament―Unless They’re Pushed to Do So
Characteristically, all the nuclear powers have rejected the 2017 UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons
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Ricardo Hausmann is both an economic and academic hitman, one who is willing to sell off his own birth country. (Photo: Youtube Screenshot) Tanya Rawal-Jindia
Ricardo Hausmann Is Taking Milton Friedman’s Lessons to Venezuela
Will the legacy of putting neoliberal academic theories over the people win again?
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