BARBARA G. ELLIS—Sanders’ speeches almost always emphasize single-payer’s—high quality, low cost. That “constant” indicates it is perhaps the issue is worth every drop of energy he has. Indeed, he may be at the crossroads of his life in deciding whether to battle the DNC again on another presidential run or to spend his remaining years ensuring single-payer coverage—Medicare-for-All—is available to every American from the first breath to the last.
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Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
By now, I’m pretty sure that our more fortunate have little or no grasp of this country’s poverty crisis. Since the Clinton administration, US media virtually disappeared the issue, or redefined “the poor” as no one worse off than minimum wage workers. This shows a puzzling (and false) faith in the “success” of our deregulated capitalism. I’ve often seen signs reading, “Health care is a human right.” This is correct. It is also irrelevant in the US. Human rights were codified in the UN’s UDHR. This international human rights agreement lists the most fundamental human rights as food, shelter, and… Read more »
To the author- Donna Brazille..a black..A black what? A black Female? A black Democrat? Were you intentionally being racist? Or maybe you were just being a white.