Oklahoma’s Revolution Didn’t End with Teacher Strikes—It’s Going Much Further
Oklahomans are sick and tired of politics as usual—the good ’ol boy system, they say, must end.
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The True, Accurate, and Only Answer to “How *Exactly* Will We Pay for Medicare for All?”
Taking on the biggest, bogus excuse for not adopting Medicare for All.
Read more...The American Healthcare System Shows Why We Can’t Trust Free Market Spin Doctors
More and more pundits are willing to acknowledge the failure of the US healthcare system and recommend single payer as a solution.
Read more...How the US Military Is Failing
A critical, but maybe not critical enough, look at the relationship of the US military to its society and ostensible goals.
Read more...The Corporate Plan to Groom U.S. Kids for Servitude by Wiping Out Public Schools
Schools are becoming a two-tier affair, with those for the non-affluent preparing them for “a life that is more circumscribed, less vibrant, and, quite literally, shorter, than what past generations have known.”
Read more...Conclusive Evidence of the Russian State’s Guilt in the Skripal Case Is Lacking — and That’s Important
A big crack opens up in the official story about the Skripal poisoning.
Read more...Leaky Fed: New Study Uses Taxi Ride Data to Show Increase in Visits When Blackout Lifted and Around FOMC Meetings
Taxi ride data suggests that the Fed is throwing some juicy informational bones to big banks, whether by accident or design.
Read more...The US Arms Machine: Why Wars R Us
Putting some facts and figures of the scale of the US arms merchant business.
Read more...Current Kentucky Retirement Systems Trustees Considering Throwing Predecessors Under the Bus to Get Blackstone and KKR
Is a pension fund management revolution brewing in what would seem to be the most unlikely place, that hotbed of corruption, the Kentucky Retirement Systems?
Read more...Who Will Stop the US-Russia Arms Race?
Real News Network interview with Professor Stephen F. Cohen on the insane arms race between the United States and Russia, which leaders from both parties are doing their utmost to stoke.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Despite Officially Hating Trump, Democrats Like a Lot of What He Does
Yet another example of the Democrats’ hypocrisy.
Read more...Noam Chomsky on the Populist Groundswell, U.S. Elections, the Future of Humanity, and More
Chomsky discusses a wide range of hot topics.
Read more...Was Carillion’s Collapse the Beginning of the End for the UK’s Outsourcers?
Two large British outsourcers are also on the verge of collapse, and the vultures are circling.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich Shellacks the New York Times’ Usefully Idiotic Coverage of America’s Never-Ending Wars
A well-argued dressing down of the New York Times for its less than illuminating reporting on America’s military adventurism.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Then Why Is Anyone STILL on Facebook?
If you’ve created an account, you can never escape Facebook. But you can at least stop making things worse for yourself.
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