DON NELSON: Here in California, the Democrats control all branches of government, right? So, at the national level, it’s the opposite but here in California they control all branches of government. So, they in effect own the fix. They have no excuse for not implementing real, meaningful reform in the area of healthcare and that, right now, there’s only one single-payer bill out there in California and that’s our bill SB 562. Again, Senator de León embraced it, and others have not. In particular Senator Feinstein has not embraced the concept of Medicare for All, and I think that is the issue. That’s the item that has separated the two at the convention that we just saw this last weekend.
February 2018
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The Shadow of an Israeli/U.S. Attack Grows Larger by the Day
15 minutes readED CURTIN—Israel’s mainstream newspapers, Haaretz, and the more conservative Jerusalem Post, both announce in headline news that Iran has built a new base in Syria with missiles capable of hitting Israel. One look at these newspapers with their talk of Israeli war preparations and the potential in assassinating the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah makes it very clear that an expanded Middle Eastern war is fast approaching. Russia, Syria, and Iran are being demonized as mind control propaganda spews forth. The mainstream corporate media in the United States and other countries are sure to follow.
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WILFRED BURCHETT—These unfortunates are indeed refugees from terror. But it is American terror from the countless tons of bombs dropped by B-52 bombers. Others are refugees from the sweep operations of U.S. troops, which often had no other aim than to strike terror in the population in the NLF zones and the disputed zones and to serve as an object lesson in the restive Saigon-controlled areas.
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America’s ‘Liberalism’ & Other Inhumane Styles of Governance at Home and Internationally
32 minutes readRICHARD FALK—The American scene has hardly ever been worse. A president that bluffs about engaging in nuclear war and seems never more comfortable than busy bullying yesterday’s associate or getting high on a string of belligerent tweets. And if Trump would mercifully move on, we are left with Pence, a sober evangelical who will walk the plank to enact the Republican miscreant agenda. And if Pence would also favor us with disappearance, the stage is left free for Paul Ryan to walk upon, a dour architect of a meanly reconstituted American reality along the dystopian lines of hierarchy and domination that Ayn Rand depicted in Fountainhead. There is a there there where angels fear to tread.
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JONATHAN COOK—“Widely dismissed” by … yes, that’s right, Whitaker’s friends in the corporate media! More circular logic. Independent journalists like Bartlett and Beeley are on RT because Whitaker’s chums at British propaganda outlets – like the Guardian and BBC – do not give, and have never given, them a hearing. The Guardian even denied them a right of reply after its US-based technology writer Olivia Solon (whose resume does not mention that she was ever in Syria) was awarded a prominent slot in the paper to smear them as Kremlin propagandists, without addressing their arguments or evidence.