A video lecture by Roger D. Seheult, MD – Pulmonology Doctor in Banning, CA. This video illustrates how viruses can cause pneumonia or widespread lung inflammation resulting in ARDS. Includes evidenced-based ARDS treatment breakthrough strategies: Low tidal volume ventilation, paralysis, and prone positioning. Also a snapshot of Korea’s effective approach to Covid-19 containment.
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DANNY HAIPHONG—The declining conditions of workers and poor people in the U.S. and the West indicate that more “authoritarianism” is needed, not less. Authoritarianism is a racist dog whistle for socialism. Socialism, rather than Bernie Sanders’ New Deal social democracy, requires public ownership of the means of production and the control of the state by the oppressed. Only when masses of people have the power to plan and direct economic activity can their interests and needs be placed in command of society.
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Freedom Rider: Corona Virus and the Failed American State
14 minutes readMARGARET KIMBERLEY—We are constantly told that socialism doesn’t work. But it is socialist China, where the virus began, that has made the most headway in slowing its spread. Conversely, the United States has none of the systems or infrastructure that would allow it to accomplish the same thing. It is capitalism that doesn’t work well when human needs must be met. There is a constant demand to designate the United States as the best country in the world with the best health care system. In fact health care delivery here is nowhere near being best.
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The Corporations and Their Media Strangled Bernie, and Older Black Voters Tied the Knot
15 minutes readGLEN FORD—Black voters’ failure to support the candidate they most agree with in the Democratic primaries, is nothing new, of course. Half the Black electorate, and the vast majority of Black officeholders, resisted the urge to support Barack Obama as the 2008 primaries approached – until the white Democrats of Iowa gave the Black candidate their OK, after which Black voters deserted Hillary Clinton en masse.
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We replay this TRNN documentary on the Koch Brothers and their war on climate science, on the occasion of David Koch’s death on August 23rd, 2019. Narrated by Danny Glover, this documentary special reveals how climate change science has been under systematic attack.
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In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See’: The Bernie 2020 Campaign Represents a Fight That Must Continue
14 minutes readNORMAN SOLOMON—Candidates who rushed to endorse Biden after his big victory in South Carolina — Michael Bloomberg, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O’Rourke, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker — each personify, in their own way, what’s so corrosive about standard-issue Democratic Party leaders. Their backgrounds and personalities vary widely, but they share a political space of opportunism and ultra-coziness with corporate power.