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Medicare for None?
Posted on Author admin
(Note: Martha Koester contributed much of the content of this posting.) Lots of progressives want single-payer healthcare: Medicare for All. But if the Democrats don’t shape up and if Republicans get their way, we may soon have Medicare for None. March 2011: House Republicans vote to replace Medicare with coupons that give you a discount on […]
Short Term Profits or Long Term Survival?
Posted on Author Brian Gunn
The science is in. Climate change is happening, and it is caused by human activity. Yet the oil and gas industries continue to use their immense cash reserves to fund the campaigns of politicians who are climate change deniers. There is a perfectly understandable reason for them doing so: it is profitable. Bought-and-paid-for politicians granted […]
Thousands rally in Olympia
Posted on Author Brian Gunn
In solidarity with Wisconsin citizens protesting the hostile takeover of public sector jobs and unregulated privatization of public works contracts proposed by WI Gov. Scott Walker, thousands of people here in Washington rallied at the state capitol in Olympia yesterday. Amid chants of “What’s disgusting…union busting” and “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Scott Walker’s got to […]