Trump’s Attack on the American Health System

More than 185 lawsuits have been filed against the Trump oligarchy for their blatantly illegal actions to remake the U.S. into a fascist nation.  You can find them all in the Litigation Tracker. Some law firms have caved and kissed the ring, but 504 signed an amicus brief in the Perkins Coie case, 300 professors signed … Read more

Walmart – Taking Food From the Mouths of Babies

Walmart knows no bottom. I have railed about Walmart for a long time and have refused to ever shop there. Their latest outrage is screwing their “last mile” drivers, called the Spark Driver program, out of their pay. Wage theft is a major problem in the United States, costing American workers at least $50 billion per year. … Read more

The Failure of the American Insurance System

Everyone has an insurance story. They were refused coverage or denied care, or someone they know was, they got a surprise bill in the thousands, and they had to fight through reams of paperwork and repeated submissions of the same thing to different places. During my partner’s illness, I was astounded at the constant barrage … Read more

The Second Coming – and I don’t mean Jesus.

I have been saying for a while now that we are in a second civil war. I’m no longer alone.  Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales of Democracy Now interviewed professors Carol Anderson and Michele Goodwin to discuss Harris’s historic campaign. “The Confederacy won,” says Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University. “It … Read more

Violence Against Women:  The old is not new.

The annual 16 Days of Activism against Violence Against Women is 25 Nov. to 10 December.  https://www.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/16-days-of-activism 25 Nov is the international day for the elimination of violence against women established 25 years ago in memory of the Mirabal sisters, who were brutally assassinated on that day in 1960. They established the 14 June Revolutionary Movement in … Read more