To Win ‘Medicare for All,’ First Reclaim Medicare From Profiteers
Building on the promise of Medicare means taking on the private-sector enriching, skimpy “Medicare Advantage” program
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Michael Hudson Speaks to Luca Placidi About Global South Debt Peonage and the Inevitability of Multipolarity
Yves here. We are introducing most of you to Luca Placidi, founder of an Italian YouTube channel called “Tracce di Classe”. Placidi who started his blog and website in late 2023, “after the war in Ukraine and the one in Gaza made the mainstream media narrative impossible to be listened to.” He discussed politics and […]
Read more...More Poverty for the Poor
The position of both poor nations and the poorest income groups globally has been deteriorating.
Read more...US Voters Want Change, Biden’s Exit Hasn’t Fixed That
Communities ravaged by neoliberal capitalism want real change. Candidates like Biden make Trump look more able to deliver it.
Read more...A California Medical Group Treats Only Homeless Patients — And Makes Money Doing It
An initiative in the Southwestern US demonstrates that health care for the homeless can be financially viable.
Read more...How Big Pharma Preys on Poor Countries – and Patients Pay the Price
New investigation reveals unequal access to life-saving meds across Europe thanks to Big Pharma system that favors the rich
Read more...Wealthy Enclaves Belatedly Rebelling Against Supersized Houses
Many of the wealthy have taken to recoiling against hypertrophied houses, although they don’t ‘splain why very well.
Read more...IT Staffing Agency Smoothstack Traps Tech Workers in “Modern Day Indentured Servitude”, Federal Suit Alleges
Smoothstack, with some Fortune 500 clients, demanded its employees stay at the company for about two years or face fines up to $30,000.
Read more...Targeting Corporate Landlords, Biden to Unveil National Rent Control Plan
Rent has become unaffordable in many US cities. But Biden makes a gesture about it only when his campaign is floundering.
Read more...A New Era of Endless Labor Shortages? A Critical Analysis of McKinsey’s New Report
A McKinsey report focusing on an extremely high job vacancy ratio in recent years cherry-picks data about the state of the U.S. labor market.
Read more...Biden Twists in the Wind as Big Donors Close Wallets, Party Criticism Persists Despite Clampdown, and Pelosi Questions His Decision to Continue
Despite reports of ruthless Biden efforts at containment, calls for him to withdraw from the 2024 race grow.
Read more...“Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs. Don’t Be Fooled.”
More discussion of tariffs as the US is using to whack Chinese imports, above all EVs.
Read more...Orbán Shuttle Diplomacy Highlights EU Representation Problem but Not in the Way the Pro-war Crowd Claims
EU diplomats deride Orban for conducting diplomacy, but polls show that Europeans are increasingly in favor of a negotiated end to the war.
Read more...Why the US Doesn’t Have National Health Insurance: The Political Role of the AMA
Documenting the role of the AMA in blocking public health care in the US.
Read more...The Biden Donor Convention
Big donors and Biden are duking it out as to whether he goes or stays. How much does it matter that voters are visibly disenfranchised?
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