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The worsening conflict between Iran and Israel dominated the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Canada....
Posted: Tue, Jun 17, 2025 3:01pm PDT
The welfare state is the first thing to be cut when growth stagnates. The state must do both: invest and consume – which also means
financing pensions, healthcare, etc. Social spending is often
dismissed as an unnecessary luxury. But what happens if you let
pensioners starve or abandon the elderly? You risk poverty and social upheaval – and that has political consequences....
Posted: Sun, Jun 15, 2025 6:44am PDT
What legal actions can be taken in federal courts if the Republicans actually shock the nation by reducing Medicaid benefits and putting the welfare of the people at a terrible risk of all kinds of health care crisis, and a spread of disease due to untreated patients?...
Posted: Wed, Jun 4, 2025 7:10pm PDT
I asked chatGPT how to petition the Republicans to convince them to stop their cruel plan to reduce Mediciad benefits, and this is the reponse I got from chatGPT!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 4, 2025 9:11am PDT
As part of a national day of action for single payer, a rally was held at the Harry Bridges plaza followed by a march to Blackrock hedge fund which owns 8% of United Healthcare...
Posted: Sat, May 31, 2025 9:10pm PDT
CRD covers the fight for national healthcare and national organizing for May Day...
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2025 6:21pm PDT
A new web page allows Californians to report problems they encounter with the Social Security Department resulting from DOGE cuts backed by Trump & Musk....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2025 12:49pm PDT
The State of Vermont is one of the coldest places to live and snows 5 months a year, sometimes more. Republican Governor Phil Scott has kicked pregnant women out of the homeless shelter motel program if they are less than 6 months pregnant. They have no where to go....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2025 8:47pm PDT
Aristotle had already cricized it in his Nicomachean Ethics as Pleonexia, the constant urge to get more, with powerful words throughout history. Aristotle's cricism of greed, pleonexia, the desire to have more than you ever need, is based on an understanding of the polical which our society no longer shares......
Posted: Sun, Mar 16, 2025 4:28pm PDT
A growing anger and class hatred of Musk, Tesla and Trump and people are rallying throughout the country at Tesla dealerships including in San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 6:49pm PDT
There is no evidence in humans that superficial wounds heal better or fatster when kept moist and covered...
Posted: Tue, Feb 25, 2025 3:10pm PST
The California Apartment Association and local MAGA activists are demanding that city council dismantle Concord's tenant protections, starting with rental homes and townhouses....
Posted: Sun, Feb 2, 2025 2:29pm PST
Cancer epidemic in men and the destruction of public health in the US...
Posted: Mon, Jan 27, 2025 6:42pm PST
Citizens are entitled to participation in society. And entitlements cost the oligarchs money. So the concept of citizenry must be reduced if not eliminated. It was Reagan who launched America towards de-socializing the New Deal contract. That he never fully succeeded is testament both to its enduring popularity and to the repeated failure of the oligarchy to seize enough power to pull it off....
Posted: Thu, Jan 16, 2025 1:46am PST
(WASHINGTON, D.C – January 15th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. However, rising rents and government inaction keep pushing more people into homelessness. Nearly half of renters pay more than they can afford in rent, and one in four worries about imminently becoming homeless. Amid a worsening housing crisis, we need real leadership to ensure that HUD fulfills its mandate to help people afford housing. As we enter an administration that openly talks about rounding up homeless people and ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2025 10:11am PST
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) staff working at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, warn that Israel’s restrictions on fuel entry are threatening the lives of critically ill children, infants and other patients....
Posted: Sat, Jan 11, 2025 8:20pm PST
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command condemns the Nazi Zionist terrorist army’s storming of Kamal Adwan Hospital and burning it after imposing a siege on it with fire, systematically targeting it and the medical staff, torturing patients and accompanying staff and forcing them to leave it, not to mention the deaths of more than 50 martyrs, some of whom were burned to death as a result of the fire spreading throughout the hospital, in a complete war crime that is...
Posted: Mon, Dec 30, 2024 4:32am PST
By pushing for the retraction of the FEWS NET report, USAID was acting on its vested interest in denying that Israel is starving Palestinians....
Posted: Sun, Dec 29, 2024 2:57am PST
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on U.S. and international medical groups to condemn Israel’s burning of Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the last hospitals in northern Gaza, and the murder of five members of its medical staff....
Posted: Sat, Dec 28, 2024 6:04am PST
The head of Gaza's health ministry said he has lost contact with Kamal Adwan, one of several northern Gaza hospitals that Israeli forces have encircled and attacked in recent weeks. "𝙄'𝙢 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙨," 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙎𝙮𝙚𝙙. "𝘾𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙠 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙡𝙮. 𝙒𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙪𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙣𝙚𝙡 𝙞𝙣𝙟𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨, 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙨𝙠𝙪𝙡𝙡 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙪𝙩."
"𝙒𝙚'𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙠𝙞𝙙𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙡𝙚...
Posted: Fri, Dec 27, 2024 6:48am PST