Health Care

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Bernie Sanders trounced Fox News on its own turf when he demonstrated that the town hall audience assembled for him by the pro-plutocrat White Nationalist channel was enthusiastic about medicare for all. The Young Turks: “Bernie Schools Fox News on Medicare For All” This outcome should not have surprised anyone, […]

Health Care

The Measure of our Happiness: Our Miserable Plutocracy

H. Patricia Hynes

For the past seven years ago, the United Nations has issued a report titled the World Happiness Report. While this report may sound somewhat lightweight, it actually ranks countries by serious measures including income, freedom, trust in government, social support, life expectancy and how happy citizens perceive themselves to be. The highest-ranking countries are those, […]

Health Care

Trump is Coming for your Health Care, Will Re-institute Exclusion for Pre-Existing Conditions

AFP

By Sebastian Smith Washington, DC (AFP) – US President Donald Trump’s administration vowed Tuesday to see Obamacare — a massive, but controversial reform intended to bring health care to more Americans — struck down. Top Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway said the policy, which became law after a fierce legislative battle under then president Barack Obama, […]

Donald Trump

Top 4 things more disgraceful than Michelle Wolf’s Jokes or leak of Mueller Questions

Juan Cole

This week, the Right wing outrage machine, in part orchestrated by Trump, has been groaning about comedian Michelle Wolf’s roast at the White House Correspondents’ dinner and now Trump is calling the leak of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s questions for him “disgraceful” (typos suggest Trump may have leaked them himself. Here are some things that […]

Addiction

Marijuana’s Key Ingredient Not Dangerous or Addictive: WHO

contributors

TeleSur | – – The committee is expected to make detailed recommendations based on an in-depth review in May 2018. The main ingredient, Cannabidiol, CBD found in Marijuana is neither harmful nor addictive, a new World Health Organization, WHO report has confirmed. CBD is a naturally occurring, non-psychoactive ingredient found in cannabis plants that has […]

African-Americans

African-American areas have “Worst Poverty” in Industrialized World: UN Official

contributors

TeleSur | – – Environmental racism, extreme poverty, and disease thrive on a breathtaking scale in U.S. Black communities in the South, shocking a UN investigator. Extreme poverty, environmental degradation and toxic hazards in poor communities in the United States are facing increased international scrutiny following an inspection of rural Alabama communities by a United […]

Democratic Party

Leading Democrats Are Way Behind the Public on Health Care

contributors

By Jim Hightower | (Otherwords.org) | – – 60 percent of Americans support single payer health care. So why is the party leadership dragging its feet? Good news, people — at last, congressional Democrats have gotten a clue, grown some spine, and are beginning to act like… well, like progressives. In particular, a majority of […]

Corruption

Top Six Trump Admin. Crimes that ought to bring Indictments

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – 1. Jeff Sessions lied under oath, saying he never met with any Russian official during the Trump presidential campaign. He met the Russian ambassador twice. The GOP impeached Bill Clinton for perjury in what was a minor personal matter, but stand by Sessions despite his perjury […]

Christians

Corporations Shouldn’t Get to Have ‘Religious’ Objections to Your Health Care

Juan Cole

By Martha Burk | (Otherwords.org) | – – Expanding “corporate citizen” rights into health care could ultimately affect everybody, not just women. When Obamacare — aka, the Affordable Care Act — became law in 2010, it mandated coverage of birth control without co-payments. Some employers didn’t like the rule, and Hobby Lobby hated it so […]