WEEK IN REVIEW: What Far Left? Asks AOC

 

The Week in Review

'Staggering': Watchdog Finds Medicare Advantage Plans Deny Necessary Care "These plans are designed to maximize profits for corporations, NOT to provide high-quality healthcare," said Social Security Works. Read more → 'A Real Threat to Democracy': Musk Buys Twitter for $44 Billion "This isn't just some corporate takeover," said one critic. "This is about a set of very specific moves that our oligarchs have been taking that have gradually concentrated economic, political, and discursive power in fewer and fewer hands." Read more → 'Just Cancel It': 85% of Young US Voters Want Action on Student Debt A plurality of Americans under age 30 surveyed by Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics support canceling all outstanding student loan debt. Read more → Steven Donziger Walks Free After 993 Days of 'Completely Unjust' Detention "He should have never been detained for even one day," said an Amnesty International official, "as it has been clear the whole process against him has been in retaliation for his human rights work that exposed corporate wrongdoings." Read more → What Far-Left? Asks AOC. 'We Can't Even Get Our Party to Import Cheaper Prescription Drugs from Canada' The New York Democrat ridiculed a meme shared on Twitter by Elon Musk, the platform's new owner and the world's richest person. Read more →

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Opinion

Manchin Bill Is Bad for Jobs and the Climate Senator Manchin has already sabotaged his own party’s Build Back Better plan to address the climate crisis. Now he wants to delay and divert action on climate by building his own nuclear empire. by Linda Pentz Gunter Read more → Jared Kushner Sold Out to Saudis for $2 Billion and Nobody Seems to Care Have we all been witnessing a young con-man walk away with billions after selling out Yemen, Khashoggi, and the U.S.? With virtually no questions from Congress or the mainstream media? by Thom Hartmann Read more → US Secretary of Defense Admits the Real Strategic Goal in Ukraine: Quagmire for Russia The strategic goal of "weakening Russia" is playing with fire—even nuclear fire—and to allow the war to go on indefinitely, or to escalate, at the expense of the Ukrainian people is cruel, dangerous, and unacceptable. by John Burroughs Read more → The Time Has Come for Progressives to Rescue and Renew American Democracy Why now is the exact right time to advance and fight for a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights. by Alan Minsky, Harvey J. Kaye Read more →

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