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Urgent: Demanding an end to nuclear weapons

mercredi 6 août 2014 à 14:00

US citizens: support the Marshall Islands in demanding an end to nuclear weapons.

ALEC recruiting states to try to block EPA

mercredi 6 août 2014 à 14:00

ALEC is recruiting states to try to block the EPA from regulating CO2 emissions from electric plants.

ALEC is funded by fossil fuel companies and the Koch brothers, and their agenda is to make us burn as much fossil fuel as possible and run at high speed into climate disaster.

US inequality

mercredi 6 août 2014 à 14:00

New figures from the Commerce Department show that US inequality growth is even more than was believed.

For-profit home health care

mercredi 6 août 2014 à 14:00

In the US, for-profit home health care agencies working for Medicare cost more and provide worse care.

This is natural. Their profit has to come out of the patients and the public. Privatizing a public service is nearly always harmful unless it enables the public to buy directly from a competitive market.

Seed libraries

mercredi 6 août 2014 à 14:00

Libraries around the US are starting to lend traditional seeds as well as books, but Pennsylvania says it presents a danger of "terrorism".