The COVID pandemic provides all the proof America needs that healthcare does not belong under the control of for-profit corporations. COVID exposed why our system is ultimately fatal to many x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. We are in a global pandemic. We have various vaccines on the...
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Trump just hasn’t arrived at getting folks to the boxcars yet. He's attacking things on the basis of race while claiming something, something white male grievance. x In 1932 I had many friends who didn’t care for the Nazis, but had been disappointed in the Social Democratic Party for so...
Ed Eichhorn has another option for Medicare for All. He really does want to give everyone affordable healthcare. But because as he states he is a capitalist, he sees all solutions weighted towards the options that said economic system affords his thinking process. Please watch/listen to the entire interview. Ed Eichhorn...
Our immoral profit-driven healthcare system killed Shalynne, the daughter of Amy Vilela. She tells the story that brought her to Medicare for All and her activism. I interviewed Amy at a Bernie Sanders headquarters in Las Vegas Nevada just before the state caucus. Amy Vilela said that after her daughter's death she...
We are currently in a period where the masters of our economy are using a different kind of chain to get their will. The chains are virtual, an antiseptic form of slavery. Antiseptic form of slavery x x YouTube Video While discussing Oxfam's new report and other economic and electoral politics issues,...
We know from the National Climate Assessment that climate disruptions to agriculture over the past 40 years has increased and, will only worsen as the climate crisis continues to unfold. Drought and flooding will increase, and heatwaves will come earlier, be more frequent and, last longer threatening the lives of...
Have you been to a hospital complex lately? In Houston, they are constantly building them or upgrading them. They are beautiful. But the health care they provide sucks your wealth and our tax dollars. It is an evil enterprise. I owned a software development company. I have always carried my own...
Economist Professor Richard Wolff gave a compelling reason for moving to the next economic system. His rhetorical question ‘Are we going to let a declining system take us down with it?’ is prescient. Economist Richard Wolff asked the right question Professor Economist Richard Wolff & Jacobin’s Bhaskar Sunkara faced off...
As pictured above, a significant portion of the U.S. health insurance market has chosen to write a joint letter to Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, explaining that the current Republican health insurance proposal is “unworkable in any form.” The joint letter could not be any more stark and explicit. As noted in...