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Medicare's Anniversary Reminds Us The Impossible Is Possible
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By Mark Karlin for Truth Out - Before the establishment of Medicare, many
persons more than 65 years of age who weren't wealthy dealt with a harrowing
reality. When they became seriously ill or required a costly procedure, they
possibly faced bankruptcy due to lack of health insurance or high deductibles
and co-pays. Many also confronted having to go without health care because of
costs, sometimes leading to a painful death because of the exorbitant price of
medical care without insurance. In fact, the lack of a government health
insurance program for the elderly led to seniors being among the poorest age
groups in the nation. This past Sunday, Medicare celebrated its 52nd
anniversary. National health care coverage in the United States for seniors had
been an elusive goal until the program was launched in 1965. For years, efforts
to pass Medicare were thwarted by charges that we still hear today against the
Affordable Care Act and proposals for single-payer health care. Government he
alth care insurance for the elderly was called "communist" medicine and accused
of being "un-American." Despite his ability to get Social Security enacted in
1935 and launch other government-administered New Deal programs, President
Franklin Roosevelt was not able to overcome vigorous opposition to government
health coverage for seniors... -more-
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The Fight Over Price Gouging By The Pharmaceutical Industry
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By Lydia O'neal And David Sirota for International Business Times - As the
Democratic Governors Association raised $2.28 million from drug companies and
health insurers in the first half of 2017, the group’s chairman, Connecticut
Gov. Dan Malloy, echoed a health care lobbyist’s criticism of a landmark bill
to combat drug price-gouging, according to documents obtained by International
Business Times. The documents detail how Malloy’s insurance department, led by
a former Cigna lobbyist, tried to water down the bipartisan initiative as it
moved through the state’s legislature. This spring, while Washington lawmakers
wrestled over national health care policy, Connecticut lawmakers worked to join
several other states that have passed legislation to curb an alleged drug price
fraud scheme at the heart of multiple class-action lawsuits across the country.
The suits accuse insurance firms and their pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs,
of attaching arbitrary and fraudulent premiums to consumers’ prescription drug
prices, then pocketing the cost difference — all while using “gag orders” to
keep pharmacies from informing customers about lower-priced options. -more-
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On The Beach 2017. The Beckoning Of Nuclear War.
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By Staff of John Pilger - The US submarine captain says, "We've all got to die
one day, some sooner and some later. The trouble always has been that you're
never ready, because you don't know when it's coming. Well, now we do know and
there's nothing to be done about it." He says he will be dead by September. It
will take about a week to die, though no one can be sure. Animals live the
longest. The war was over in a month. The United States, Russia and China were
the protagonists. It is not clear if it was started by accident or mistake.
There was no victor. The northern hemisphere is contaminated and lifeless now.
A curtain of radioactivity is moving south towards Australia and New Zealand,
southern Africa and South America. By September, the last cities, towns and
villages will succumb. As in the north, most buildings will remain untouched,
some illuminated by the last flickers of electric light. This is the way the
world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. These lines from T.S. E liot's poem
The Hollow Men appear at the beginning of Nevil Shute's novel On the Beach,
which left me close to tears. The endorsements on the cover said the same.
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Deep State, Riyad
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& Tel Aviv Sabotage Good Relations With Russia
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By Federico Pieraccini for Strategic Culture Foundation - After months of
debate over the bad state of relations between the United States and Russia,
the G20 offered the stage for the two leaders to meet and start discussing the
various problems facing the two countries. In the days following the summit in
Hamburg, the Kremlin and the White House revealed that Putin and Trump met
three times in bilateral talks to discuss how to improve relations between the
two nations. The ceasefire reached in southern Syria is therefore intended as
the first step in a new direction set for Washington and Moscow. As was easy to
foresee, the deep state did not like this prospect of cooperation, immediately
unleashing the mainstream media on Trump, because repeated meetings with Putin
at the G20 were apparently suggestive of some sort of collusion, as if the
leaders of two nuclear powers cannot even speak with each other. Obviously
uncomfortable with these meetings, the sabotaging of relations betwee n Russia
and the US has taken a new turn. The previous ceasefire in Syria, reached by
Kerry and Lavrov during the previous administration a year ago, was sabotaged
by the US Air Force’s bombing of Syrian troops at Deir ez-Zor, which killed and
injured more than a hundred Syrian soldiers. -more-
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The Peace Movement Is As Vital As Ever
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By Staff of Morning Star - “I WANT to find out why we’ve been there for 17
years,” US President Donald Trump reportedly raged following news of more
murder and mayhem in Afghanistan. “We aren’t winning. We are losing.” The
trigger-happy president in the White House imagines that his armies are in
difficulty because he can’t get the staff: US officials say he has pressed for
the top US commander in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, to be fired.
Nicholson is the 17th Nato commander in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion
took place in 2001, so singling him out might seem unfair. Admittedly his job
is harder than his predecessors’ because the war he’s tasked with was declared
over by Barack Obama at the end of 2014, which makes the continuing deaths of
soldiers and civilians in the central Asian country more embarrassing for
Washington. The killing of a Georgian soldier and two Afghan civilians on
Thursday, following that of two US troops on Wednesday, show the Tal iban
remains a lethal adversary. But the Islamist group — which itself grew out of
the mojahedin insurgents armed and funded by the US and its allies in their
successful bid to destroy the socialist and secular Afghanistan of the 1970s
and 1980s — is no longer the country’s last word in Wahhabi extremism, since
Islamic State (Isis), a child of the US and British invasion of Iraq, is now
also busy murdering police officers and Red Crescent workers. -more-
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A Popular Mass Movement Is Again Taking The Lead In Palestinian Resistance
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By Jesse Rosenfeld for The Intercept - IT WAS SUPPOSED to be a moment of
celebration and reflection for one of those too-rare occurrences in the Mideast
— popular protests by Palestinians had stymied the imposition of a new facet of
Israel’s 50-year-long occupation. Instead, even after Israel backed down on the
changes it had imposed at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, the situation in
Jerusalem continued to spiral into familiar scenes of security forces chasing
scrambling demonstrators. Throngs of Palestinian worshippers flooded through
the gates to Al Aqsa Mosque in Occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City last
Thursday. They reveled in victory after almost two weeks of boycotting Islam’s
third holiest site to oppose new Israeli security measures on the compound.
After a brazen assault on July 14, using weapons smuggled into the holy site by
three Palestinian citizens of Israel and leaving two Israeli border police
dead, Israel had installed CCTV cameras, turnstiles, and metal detect ors. The
mosque compound is under Jordanian control and administered by the Jerusalem
Islamic Waqf, a Jordanian-Palestinian Islamic trust. The Waqf had called for
the boycott and protests sprang up opposing Israel’s changes to the delicate —
and perpetually tense — status quo. -more-
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‘Disappointed’ AIPAC Targets Gillibrand For Removing Her Name From Boycott Bill
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By Robert Herbst for Mondoweiss - At two town halls late last month, New York
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand promised to reconsider her co-sponsorship of Senate
Bill 720, the Anti-Israel Boycott Act, after a number of her constituents
raised free speech concerns, to rousing applause, seemingly without dissent. At
the time, Gillibrand was one of 45 co-sponsors in the Senate and 234 in the
House. Since the bill was sponsored by the Israel lobby group AIPAC, it was not
surprising that, despite its attack on First Amendment rights, it would receive
huge support before it was widely publicized, based solely on its AIPAC
pedigree. Gillibrand herself agreed with my characterization that AIPAC was a
lobby with a “stranglehold” on Congress (when I approached her after a town
hall). So despite her explicit commitment to take another look at the bill, and
her expressed concerns about the government of Israel and its Prime Minister’s
failure to have a vision for peace, it was reasonable to que stion whether the
junior senator from New York would ultimately find the wherewithal to resist
that stranglehold. Well, lo and behold, this past Monday, Gillibrand withdrew
her co-sponsorship of the bill. -more-
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BDS Movement Turns 12, Marks Anniversary With List Of 12 Wins In 2017
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By Staff of Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee -
July 9, 2017 marks 12 years since the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
movement was born. It’s been 12 years since an impressively large and diverse
coalition across Palestinian civil society surmounted incredible odds to unify
around three basic Palestinian rights and a nonviolent, inclusive, anti-racist
path of struggle to achieve them. Despite the fragmentation, military
occupation, segregation and dispossession, we came together to assert our
people’s right to freedom, justice, equality and dignity. The 2005 BDS Call
embodies overwhelming Palestinian support for demanding an end to Israel’s
military occupation and the dismantling of its illegal wall, an end to its
institutionalized and legalized system of racial discrimination which meets the
UN definition of apartheid, and the right of refugees to return to their
homeland as stipulated in international law. Inspired by the South African a
nti-apartheid movement and the American Civil Rights Movement, entities
representing Palestinians everywhere called on people of conscience worldwide
to adopt pressure tactics in support of our struggle for rights. BDS calls for
boycott and divestment initiatives in the academic, cultural, economic and
sports fields and for pressuring states to implement meaningful sanctions
against Israel until it fully complies with its obligations under international
law. -more-
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Clinton Lost Because PA, WI, And MI Have High Casualty Rates And Saw Her As
Pro-War
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By Philip Weiss for Mondoweiss - Last fall I winced whenever Hillary Clinton
or her surrogates promised regime change in Syria. Don’t these people get it?
Americans don’t want to be waging more wars in the Middle East. Now an
important new study has come out showing that Clinton paid for this arrogance:
professors argue that Clinton lost the battleground states of Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania, and Michigan in last year’s presidential election because they
had some of the highest casualty rates during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and
voters there saw Clinton as the pro-war candidate. By contrast, her pro-war
positions did not hurt her in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and
California, the study says; because those states were relatively unscathed by
the Middle East wars. The study is titled “Battlefield Casualties and Ballot
Box Defeat: Did the Bush-Obama Wars Cost Clinton the White House?” Authors
Francis Shen, associate professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, a
nd Dougas Kriner, a political science professor at Boston University, strike a
populist note: With so much post-election analysis, it is surprising that no
one has pointed to the possibility that inequalities in wartime sacrifice might
have tipped the election. -more-
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The Senate FERCed Us
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By Karen Feridun for The Huffington Post - Robert Powelson, the
newly-confirmed member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, wasn’t
clear who he was referring to when he said that citizens who fight pipeline
projects are engaged in a “jihad” at an industry conference in March. He may
have been referring to the Standing Rock Sioux and all the other water
protectors who withstood attack dogs, water cannons in sub-freezing
temperatures, and countless other assaults in North Dakota last year. Perhaps
he was referring to the Sisters of Loretto who successfully fought off the
Bluegrass pipeline in Kentucky. He might have meant the residents of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey who have flooded the FERC docket for the proposed
PennEast pipeline with detailed comments, many from experts who have weighed in
on everything from vulnerable species to sinkholes. He could have been thinking
of any of them and so many others. More likely, he was thinking of all of them.
No matter. What Mr. P owelson calls a “jihad”, a term he uses as a pejorative
which is concerning and revealing in its own right, is otherwise known as civic
participation. That one of our two new FERC commissioners has so much disdain
for it is disheartening. -more-
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Reviving The Strike
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By Jane McAlevey for The Bullet - Barb Tiller is a mother of four boys, a
wife, and a highly skilled operating-room nurse who has been working at Tufts
Medical Center in Boston for 27 years. On July 12, for the first time in her
life, she walked off the job along with 1,200 other nurses – almost all women –
in the largest nurses’ strike in Massachusetts’s history, and the first in
Boston for 31 years. “Nurses don’t stand up for ourselves,” says Tiller. “We
stand up for our patients; we stand up for our families when we go home. We
stand up for everyone else. But we can’t work under these conditions anymore –
like being locked in the operating room with no water, no bathroom break, no
meal break, for 12 hours at a time.” Alyssa Gold, a cardiology nurse whose 16
months at Tufts mirrors the duration of the contract negotiations between the
nurses and hospital management, says, “I was excited to start working at Tufts
because the best learning for nurses happens i n Boston hospitals.” Five years
into nursing, which she refers to as her calling, Gold agrees with Tiller about
the dire need for change. In the days leading up to the strike, Gold faced some
of the fears and self-doubt that hospital managers count on. -more-
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