Social Security
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Medicare-for-All Is a Beginning, Not the End Point
As a coup de grâce to the Bernie Sanders campaign Joe Biden declared that he would veto Medicare-for-All. This could drive a dedicated health care advocate to relentlessly pursue Med-4-All asa final goal. However, it is not the final goal. It should be the first step in a complete transformation of medicine which includes combining community medicine with natural medicine… Continue reading
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Devastating cuts to Britain’s social security breach int’l human rights law
In accordance with international human rights law, countries must take concrete steps to the maximum of their available resources to fulfil economic and social rights progressively. This includes the right to social security and the right to an adequate standard of living. Continue reading
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Revised UK welfare sanctions mean more punishment for the poor By Emily Wilson
From October 2012, new revised sanctions were introduced affecting Job Seekers Allowance with fixed period sanctions. These are broken down into three sections; higher level sanctions, intermediate level and lower level. Higher level affects those that leave a job voluntarily. This would mean that a claimant would lose their JSA completely for 13 weeks for… Continue reading
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The ‘Bedroom Tax’: A Two-Pronged Attack By Insa Koch
The ‘bedroom tax’, which was implemented on the 1 April 2013, has been widely criticised as a fundamental attack on the welfare state in Britain. It exposes many people to the risk of losing their houses, threatening to break up family homes and communities. But there is also another problem with the ‘bedroom tax’ which… Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Boston Bombing, Defining Terrorism, Social Security 'Bravery' By Peter Hart
This week on FAIR TV we look at the media’s rush to misjudgment on the Boston Marathon attack. And we ask some questions about which acts of terrorism are called “terrorism”–and which have been largely forgotten. Plus PBS gives us both sides on the debate over Social Security: The right thinks Barack Obama is brave… Continue reading
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FAIR TV: Misremembering Thatcher, Cutting Social Security, Hillary Clinton's Hair
This week on FAIR TV: Media remember Margaret Thatcher for turning around Britain’s economy. But do the numbers tell a different story? Also: Barack Obama’s plan to cut Social Security and Medicare is inexplicably deemed a move to the “center,” and pundits are monitoring the 2016 election by paying close attention to… Hillary Clinton’s haircut? Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 11 April 2013: Obama's 2nd Term? Or Reagan's 9th? Fear of a Ded Planet
11 April 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Is This Barack Obama’s 2nd Term? Is it Bill Clinton’s 3rd? Or Is It Ronald Reagan’s 9th? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon They say that elections do matter, and that there are real differences between Republican and Democratic presidents. But Continue reading
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Austerity Can’t Solve Crises of Capitalism By Gene Clancy
Millions of workers across the United States received a rude and unpleasant jolt this January when they discovered that their take-home pay had just shrunk by 2 percent. The Social Security payroll tax cut of 2009 was restored, costing workers an average amount of $850 a year, a significant wage decrease for workers on the… Continue reading
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FAIR Media Alert: CEO Evening News?
The CBS Evening News has decided the best way to inform viewers about the impending “fiscal cliff” is to let corporate CEOs affiliated with the Fix the Debt campaign recommend cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Continue reading
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Video: Fiscal Cliff An Artificial Crisis
Michael Hudson: Fiscal cliff was manufactured to shift more of the burden of the crisis onto ordinary people (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Brazil Takes the Lead in Trying to Stop Another Senseless War by MARK WEISBROT
Brazil’s foreign minister, Antonio Patriota, made a courageous and very important statement last week about the rising threat of a military attack on Iran. He asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to weigh in on the legality of a threatened military strike against Iran. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 14 September 2011: Obama Subverts Social Security / Black Marriages / Fauntroy's Libya Tale
14 September 2011 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left We’re Back…… We have experienced some technical difficulties. We are rebuilding our article content for the last five months, so these will gradually become available over the next few weeks, but unfortunately without their attached comments. Some of the Continue reading
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Video: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (PROJECT 12, 8/12)
22 August 2011 — YouTube LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (Project 12, 8/12) Directed and Edited by Diran Lyons: http://lyonspotter.blogspot.com LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (Project 12, 8/12) features a series of crafted statements that originated as part of detailed political commentaries written by members at democraticunderground.com during the months of July and August 2011. Continue reading
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Global Research: The Debt Ceiling Crisis in America Selected Articles
The devil is always in the details. And Wall Street lobbyists always have such details tucked away in their briefcases to put in the hands of their favored congressmen and dedicated senators. And in this case they have the President, who has taken their advice as to whom to appoint as his cabinet to act… Continue reading
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Robert Samuelson: We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is Old
When your column is headlined ‘It’s the Elderly, Stupid,’ I guess readers should know what to expect. Robert Samuelson delivers in today’s Washington Post (a column that will appear elsewhere around the country, unfortunately), in a nasty diatribe about the kind of debt debate he thinks the country should be having–one that blames older people Continue reading
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The Debt Ceiling Set For Progressive Repealing By Prof. Michael Hudson
You know that the debt kerfuffle is as melodramatically staged as a World Wrestling Federation exhibition when Mr. Obama makes the blatantly empty threat that if Congress does not “tackle the tough challenges of entitlement and tax reform,” there won’t be money to pay Social Security checks next month. In his debt speech last night… Continue reading
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Michael Hudson: Greece a Dress Rehearsal for United States
Michael Hudson: Cuts to Social Security and Medicare and privatization at the state level mirror strategy imposed on Greece Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Obama’s Fight for Reform
Almost a year after the Great Giddy Swarming of the Obamians last November, some of the revelers are waking up with one booger of a hangover. And they are asking themselves, ‘What were we thinking when we had that tenth drink of Democratic Party Kool-Aid?’ It was a clear cut case of seduction and date… Continue reading
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