TV stations follow John Oliver’s lead in the movement to forgive medical debt
How former debt collectors showed everyone how to buy up people’s medical debt at pennies on the dollar.
Katrina vanden Heuvel on NATO military spending & avoiding Cold War nuclear catastrophe with...
“I would argue that the bipartisan establishment consensus is bankrupt. … We believe you can have secure elections and avoid nuclear catastrophe.”
‘Workers deserve better:’ Bernie Sanders takes on Walmart
"The American people are sick and tired of subsidizing the greed of some of the largest and most profitable corporations in this country."
Media just can’t stop presenting horrifying stories as ‘uplifting’ perseverance porn
Because corporate media wholly accept and promote neoliberal, free-market doctrine, they are unable to see how what they see as “awesome” is actually a manifestation of late-capitalist dystopia.
Indigenous protectors are defending the Amazon and ‘paying with their lives’
Human rights groups warned in an open letter that the Amazon’s last uncontacted indigenous people face “genocide,” amid raging fires and mounting incursions into their territories.
Pandemic of hate: Anti-Asian racism during COVID-19
When Trump calls coronavirus the ‘China Virus’ he INTENTIONALLY stirs up racism against Asian Americans.
Late summer ’70
It is difficult for folks who live in a country that had never been invaded or occupied before, to suddenly rev up the passion needed for such action.
Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Police & Noam Chomsky
For years Russell Brand has been one of Britain’s most popular comedians, but in 2014, he also emerged as a leading voice of Britain’s political left. Hear his thoughts on the most current causes.
Massive, relentless attacks on the U.S. media; a precursor to a totalitarian state?
The big question then is; what kind of a president with what kind of characteristics would be needed to take this country in that dangerous direction?
What the coronavirus says about us
Trump’s message to governors on lifesaving medical equipment — “get it yourselves” — is grimly appropriate in a country without national health care.