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Bernie Is Right. We Should Immediately Expand and Improve Medicare.
Bernie Sanders is pushing to lower the eligibility age for Medicare and boost its coverage by adding dental, hearing, and vision benefits. Bernie's plan would be a huge step toward Medicare for All. ...[Read more]
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Little-known court case helps to put the pieces together in cop dragging during Capitol insurrection
According to CNN, the federal agency's investigative illustration offers a startling depiction of the Capitol riots that is completely different from the rhetoric that former President Donald Trump and his right-wing conservative followers have attempted ...[Read more]
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What Would a Deep Green New Deal Look Like?
The Green New Deal has attracted perhaps the greatest attention of any proposal for decades.  It would guarantee Medicare-for-All, Housing-for-All, student loan forgiveness and propose the largest economic growth in human history to address unemployment ...[Read more]
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New Documentary “Exterminate All the Brutes”€ Was 500 Years of Genocide in the Making
“Exterminate All the Brutes” is a sprawling disquisition — four episodes, each an hour long — into the invention and consequences of 500 years of “white” supremacy, presented via a high-gloss pastiche of old footage, newly filmed dramatization ...[Read more]
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Palestine Is No Longer the Third Rail for Democrats
Today’s cease-fire is a victory and a relief for Palestinians. But with Palestinians still under siege, the struggle against ethnic cleansing and occupation isn’t over. For Democrats, “progressive except Palestine” still won’t cut it. ...[Read more]
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Neoliberalism is coming apart and Biden has a real opportunity to transform the everyday world
Liberal economic ideas dominated the political conservation in the United States for almost half a century, starting with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide victory over President Herbert Hoover in 1932. But the New Deal era ended when Presid ...[Read more]
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‘Stop Blocking Global Covid Vaccines’: Protests Greet Merkel’s White House Visit
Ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to the U.S. later this week, public health campaigners on Tuesday floated a large banner in front of the White House calling on the European leader to "stop blocking global Covid vaccines," a reference to h ...[Read more]
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Drone Whistleblower Gets 45 Months in Prison for Revealing Ongoing US War Crimes
On July 27, a federal district court judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced former U.S. Air Force intelligence analyst Daniel Hale to 45 months in prison for revealing evidence of U.S. war crimes. In 2015, Hale, whose job involved identifying targets f ...[Read more]
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Worker shortage will lead to UK food price rises, industry warns
Wholesale firms have been trying to mitigate rising costs ‘but will not be able to continue absorbing them’ ...[Read more]
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US Breaks Summer Heat Record Set During Dust Bowl in 1936: NOAA
The United States just experienced the hottest summer ever, breaking the record set in 1936 when the Dust Bowl Era took hold amid extreme heat, drought, crop failures that upended the country. ...[Read more]
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240,000 Apartments in Berlin Are Set to Be Seized From Corporate Landlords
This stunning victory for activists in Berlin could inspire similar actions for more democratic housing globally. ...[Read more]
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