All Views Articles for 2019-10-04

Friday, October 4, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order to protect and improve Medicare at the Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center. (Photo: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Diane Archer
Watch Out, Seniors! Trump Just Launched a Stealth Attack on Medicare
Trump's new executive order does nothing to hold the Medicare Advantage plans accountable for their fraudulent overcharges or their inappropriate denials of care and coverage. Rather, it rewards them.
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Flooding in the author's neighborhood, Houston, September, 2019. Anis Shivani
Lessons from Hurricane Harvey, for a Still-Flooded Houston
As Imelda’s floodwaters drain from my hometown, I observe a discourse around Harvey’s two- year anniversary constrained by a presumed opposition between the needs of humanity and the forces of nature—as though the two were in mortal combat.
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The fact is..that almost all those nearly 10,000 persons shot by live fire by Israeli professional snipers have been unarmed civilians posing no threat to anyone. (Photo: Gaza march, Ma’an News Agency) Juan Cole
US Press Horrified By Trump’s "Shoot Migrants in the Legs" But Ignores What Israeli Snipers Do to Palestinian Protesters
The Israeli army and government are now officially worse that the worst elements of the Trump administration.
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Jodie Evans with others outside of the United Against a Nuclear Iran conference in New York City. (Photo: Codepink) Jodie Evans
Why I Confronted Trump’s Architect of U.S. Sanctions Against Iran and Called Her a 'Weapon of Mass Destruction'
Sigal Mandelker’s cruel policies cost too many lives to ignore.
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US President Donald Trump speaks after signing an executive order regarding Medicare at Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center October 3, 2019, in The Villages, Florida. (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) Bill C. Davis
A Criminal Trump, GOP Complicity, and Hitler's "Chimera of Conscience"
The forces keeping this chaotic, renegade organism in place are oblivious to the harm they are doing to themselves and indifferent to the harm being claimed by others.
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Despite long-standing reassurances by vendors and election officials that voting machines cannot be hacked because they are not connected to the internet, recent security reports reveal that many voting machines are connected to the internet and possibly have been for years. (Photo: Getty) Lulu Friesdat
Voting Machines Pose A Greater Threat to Our Elections Than Foreign Agents
Security experts are alarmed at internet connectivity in voting systems because it can allow hackers to inject malware that disrupts or changes the outcome of an election.
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"Don’t we need, as a public, to understand what the government is doing … behind closed doors?" (Photo: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
Snowden Knows Exactly Why No One Wants to Be a Whistleblower
"NSA whistleblowers who did go through this process had their lives destroyed."
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Over the course of three years, this administration has been chiseling away at our government’s advisory network. (Photo: Matthew Roth/flickr/cc) Genna Reed
Science Advice Shouldn’t Be at the Whim of a President and His Appointees
This executive order was just another example of this administration seeking to cut science and information out of the government and decisionmaking process.
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Never has the drug industry accumulated more profits and government subsidies, yet so many patients cannot begin to afford lifesaving medicines. (Photo: NoHoDamon/Flickr/cc) Ralph Nader
Shame of the Nation: The 1% Rules and the 99% Lets Them
There has never been so much but so little for the majority.
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