Medicare for All advocate Wendell Potter said itβs βboth inspiring and frustratingβ to see other nations advance their public healthcare systems while the US dismantles its own.
βOur tax dollars are doing more to bomb children in Iran and other countries than to feed and educate children here.β
βEverything about this has been done in a very lawless, secretive wayβ Sonia Kumar of ACLU Maryland tells us.
This war is widening the deep systemic problems that were already present before February 28, says scholar Adam Hanieh.
βA warehouse is meant to be an economic hubβ¦ Turning it into a jail and housing humans inside is ... well, it's gross. It's wrong.β
Drugs. They have been the boogeyman across Latin America for decades. An excuse that has led to so much violence. And Trump is turning up the temperature. This is episode 10 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.
βI'm just trying to get healthcare," says Laura Dixon, a veteran security officer and Abacus Corporation employee. "I haven't had healthcare in years."
Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a two-week ceasefire agreement, Israel launched a massive bombing campaign across Lebanon, killing hundreds of people and threatening to derail the U.S.-Iranian ceasefire before it even begins.
β[Iranians] don't want this war. They hate war. They desperately want peace, but they are not going to capitulate. They've made a collective decision that they will die if necessary to defend their country.β
Disabled, ill, and aging Americans are facing a broken system thatβs now harder to navigate than ever.
βThe prison facility itself is maximum security, but society is just an extension; it's a minimum-security prison. And that [radical insight] is at the core of Black anarchism.β
Watch as the routine defense of territory is turned into something sinister and aggressive.
βThe Israelis attacked Iranβ¦ This whole series of events wouldn't have taken place if the Israelis would not have attacked. There was no imminent threat.β
βTo pay for his endless wars, he wants the biggest increase to military spending in 70 years,β said Rep. Greg Casar. βHell no.β
The passing of the recent Israeli death penalty law aimed at Palestinians formalizes what Israel and colonial powers have always done: creating new laws to legalize colonial violence.
In Iran and Lebanon, the US and Israeli militaries are bombing dense residential blocks, destroying civilian infrastructure, slaughtering children, and assassinating health workers. If it sounds familiar, itβs because this is the Gaza playbook.
Administrators at St. Johnβs University abruptly canceled labor negotiations, pushing faculty to scale up organizing.
βTrump is right. A pointless war or universal daycare,β said one Democratic politician. βHeβs right: Thatβs the choice.β
