Fifteen Ways the Democrats Can Lose the November Elections
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2018-08-31
1. Focus on Donald Trump's personal scandals, the Russian interference, and Trump's outrageous and hugely distracting daily tweets. 2. Overlook what Trump's henchmen are specifically doing to cause more deaths, injuries, and disease. Ignore this administration's efforts to scuttle health and safety standards; stop law enforcement against corporate outlaws who pollute the environment, marketplace, and workplace; take…
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VA Attracts Private Firms Pushing Dubious PTSD Treatments
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-08-30
As the Department of Veterans Affairs attempts to address a mental health care crisis, top officials warn of medical claims "made falsely, with ill intent." | The post VA Attracts Private Firms Pushing Dubious PTSD Treatments appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
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Venezuela Denounces Regional Anti-Migrant 'Xenophobia' as Brazil Militarises Border
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-08-30
The Maduro administration contrasted the recent attacks against Venezuelan migrants to its own open door policy which has seen foreigners benefit from free health, housing, education, and food programs.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14023
US teens swap books for social media, reading drops from 60 to 16 percent in half a century – study
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-30
Researchers are sounding the alarm over US teenagers' mental health and abilities, as a new study finds they've almost completely dropped books for social media. In the 1970s, 60 percent read books and in 2016 – just 16 percent.
rt.com/usa/437235-teenagers-books-social…
Progressive Andrew Gillum the victor in Florida Dem gov primary
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2018-08-29
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.–Tallahassee, Fla., Mayor Andrew Gillum, who touted his working-class roots and his progressive stands — such as Medicare For All and the Fight for $15 and a union — on the campaign trail, upset establishment favorite Gwen Graham to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in Florida's August 28 primary. | Gillum thus becomes the third African-American — along with Maryland's Ben Jealous and Georgia's Stacey Abrams — the Democrats will field for governorships this fall. All are progressives, backed by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., National Nurses United or all of the above. And Abrams picked up the endorsement, last year, of the Georgia AFL-CIO. | To put their nominations in perspective, only two African-Americans — Virginia's Doug Wilder and Massachusetts's Deval Patrick, both Democrats — have ever held governors' chairs anywhere…
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DeVos scheme to divert education dollars to guns under fire
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2018-08-29
neatoday.org | "Arming teachers and school staff is not the answer. According to an NEA survey, seven in 10 educators said arming school personnel would be ineffective at preventing gun violence in schools and two-thirds said they would feel less safe if school personnel were armed." | NEA quoted Norwich, Conn., elementary school teacher Corinne McComb: "We don't want to be armed. We want better services for our students: More psychologists and counselors who can be present for the students more than one day a week or month. We need services for families. We have the money, we can do this." | Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was one of the 14 students — and three AFT-member teachers — massacred at Douglas High, angrily tweeted: "DeVos, after my daughter was murdered, you yelled 'Don't talk about guns, talk about mental health.' Your brain-dead…
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'Skyrocketing' US STDs: Cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea & syphilis reach record levels
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-29
Health officials have issued stark warnings as data reveals that sexually transmitted infections are soaring in the US. A report has found that cases of syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea have spiked for the fourth year in a row.
rt.com/usa/437133-us-sex-disease-rise/
Smoking hot: E-cig explodes in man's pants (VIDEO)
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-29
The health risks of vaping are up for debate but at least one California e-cigarette owner might think twice about puffing on one in the future after his device suddenly exploded inside his pocket.
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At least Trump is not a 'zombie' telling 'beautiful lies' — Tech investor Peter Thiel
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-27
US President Donald Trump may be a "rude, mean person" but he is a "very healthy corrective" to a culture of political correctness and ideological platitudes, former Silicon Valley magnate Peter Thiel has said.
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Beware the Race Reductionist
Briahna Gray | theintercept.com | 2018-08-26
A hostage situation has emerged on the left. And progressive policies like "Medicare for All," a $15 minimum wage, free public education, a "Green New Deal," and even net neutrality, are the captives. | The captors? Bad-faith claims of bigotry. | According to an increasingly popular narrative among the center-left, a dispiriting plurality of progressives are "class reductionists" — people who believe that economic equality is a cure-all for societal ills, and who, as a result, would neglect policy prescriptions which seek to remedy identity-based disparities. | Of course, race and class are so interwoven that any political project that aims to resolve one while ignoring the other does a disservice to both. As Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., presumptive leader of the progressive movement, put it this spring when I asked him about the never-ending race versus class debates: "It's not…
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Medics warn of dangerous 'kissing bug' disease as 300,000 Americans already infected
RT | rt.com | 2018-08-25
Health experts are warning that the potentially lethal parasitic disease spread by 'kissing bugs' has taken hold in the US, with more than 300,000 Americans contracting it.
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Venezuela to Invest €293m to Modernise Public Health System as National Nurses' Strike Continues
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-07-23
Maduro has called for a "revolution within the revolution" in the health sector.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/13961