Israel Heads to Historic 3rd Straight Election After Parliament Vote
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-11
JERUSALEM — Israel's parliament on Wednesday dissolved after failing to meet a midnight deadline for forming a new government, triggering an unprecedented third election in a 12-month period while giving scandal-plagued Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a welcome break as he fights to save his political career. | After months of political deadlock following a September election, lawmakers overwhelmingly passed the first of three votes required to dissolve the parliament and set a March 2 date for new elections. | But after a midnight deadline passed, parliament was automatically dissolved. Lawmakers were co…
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Divide and Conquer Tactics: Millions of Deaths Triggered by the British Empire
Tomasz Pierscionek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-11
Western historians who condemn the USSR for the deaths under Stalin‚Äã's dictatorship should shed a spotlight on ‚Äãthe millions who died under British rule‚Äã, including those in engineered famines across the Indian subcontinent. | The UK general election is a week | …
globalresearch.ca/deaths-caused-british-empire-should-condemned/5697439
Universal Health Coverage will 'drive progress' on 2030 Development Agenda
news.un.org | 2019-12-11
Last September world leaders at the United Nations endorsed an ambitious political declaration on universal health coverage, "reaffirming that health is a human right", Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday in his message for International Universal Health Coverage Day.
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Labour's pose as defender of the National Health Service exposed
wsws.org | 2019-12-11
Labour's claim to be the only party that will defend the NHS is the main reason many support the party. But like most of its main pledges, this too is without genuine substance.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/11/heal…
Detainee Zahran Continues Strike For 80th Day
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-12-11
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Ahmad Zahran, 42, imprisoned by Israeli under repeatedly renewed arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial, is ongoing with the hunger strike for the 80th consecutive day, despite his seriously deteriorating health condition. The PPS stated that the Israeli Prison Authority …
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30+ Groups Condemn 'Obscene' $738 Billion Pentagon Bill as Blank Check for War and 'Gift to Donald Trump'
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-12-11
"Every dollar spent by the Pentagon is a dollar not spent on education, healthcare, or climate. When critics attack social spending by asking 'how will you pay for it?' this will be our answer." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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"Shame!" Indigenous Leaders & Delegates from Global South Stage Dramatic Protest at COP25 in Madrid
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-11
Democracy Now! was broadcasting live from the United Nations climate summit in Madrid, Spain, when hundreds of climate advocates and people's movements at the U.N. climate action summit staged a protest inside the conference venue. As the demonstration unfolds, we speak with Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network; Karin Nansen, chair of Friends of the Earth International; Nigerian climate activist Nnimmo Bassey with Health of Mother Earth Foundation; and indigenous climate activist Daiara Tukano from Brazil.
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Indigenous Leaders and Delegates From the Global South Stage Walkout at COP25
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-11
Democracy Now! was broadcasting live from the United Nations climate summit in Madrid, Spain, when hundreds of climate advocates and people's movements at the U.N. climate action summit staged a protest inside the conference venue. As the demonstration unfolds, we speak with Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network; Karin Nansen, chair of Friends of the Earth International; Nigerian climate activist Nnimmo Bassey with Health of Mother Earth Foundation; and indig…
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Privatization at the NHS? American Business Interests Seek Growing Share of UK's Health System
Lee Fang | theintercept.com | 2019-12-10
The American health care industry has long had its sights on harnessing a wave of privatization and outsourcing in the U.K. system.
theintercept.com/2019/12/10/nhs-privatiz…
Delays in Forced Sterilizations Case in Peru: 20 Years Open
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-10
The case involving alleged forced sterilizations performed in Peru during the 1990-2000 term of former President Alberto Fujimori suffered on Monday a new delay in the legal proceedings that have been under way for more than 20 years without any trial opened yet. | RELATED: | Peru Opposition Leader Accused of Graft Released From Jail | The court hearing was expecting Monday prosecutors to present their accusations against Fujimori and his former health ministers for crimes against…
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Samoa measles outbreak claims 70 lives, majority are children under five
news.un.org | 2019-12-10
Seventy people have now died from Samoa's measles outbreak, UN humanitarians confirmed on Tuesday, as the organization released emergency funding to help the authorities step up efforts to eradicate the preventable disease.
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On Human Rights Day, Let's Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Martin Fleck | progressive.org | 2019-12-09
A nuclear war would create one of the worst humanitarian crises imaginable, one for which no nation would have an adequate emergency or health response.
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Inequality threatening human development, new global UN report warns
news.un.org | 2019-12-09
Despite global progress in tackling poverty, hunger and disease, a "new generation of inequalities" indicates that many societies are not working as they should, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) argues in its latest report released on Monday.
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Three Ways the "Fairness for All Act" Doesn't Protect LGBTQ People from Discrimination
Ian S. Thompson | aclu.org | 2019-12-09
On Friday, Congressman Chris Stewart (R-Utah) and | several of his Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives introduced | the so-called "Fairness for All Act." The bill is being described by its | supporters as a compromise that protects both LGBTQ people and religious | liberty. | In reality, the bill facilitates the Trump | administration's ongoing efforts to give a greenlight to those who would turn | LGBTQ people away from jobs, health care, housing, even taxpayer-funded | programs, simply because of who they are. The bill also weakens some | longstanding protections in federal and state laws…
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Sweden Provides Free Higher Education, Universal Healthcare, Free Daycare — Why Can't the U.S.?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-12-05
Medicare for All and tuition-free universities have been at the core of the 2020 Democratic presidential campaigns, creating a stark division between progressive candidates and their centrist counterparts. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have proposed to make Medicare for All and public universities cost-free by taxing massive corporations and the super wealthy, and earlier this year, Sanders introduced legislation that would cancel student loan debt. His plan would be paid for with a new tax on Wall Street, he says. It would also make public universities and community colleges free — a key pil…
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What the U.K. Election Tells Us About Universal Health Care
Sarah Jaffe | progressive.org | 2019-12-03
Across the political spectrum, the British are clear: American-style health care is a terrible idea.
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Warren's Head Tax Is Not More Popular Than A Payroll Tax
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-17
As we know by now, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare head tax proposal is a regressive mess ( I, II, III, IV). Warren's team knows this. The goal of the proposal i…
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CAP's Topher Spiro Is Trying to Deceive Journalists By Lying
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-17
It's been fun to see how the Center for American Progress (CAP) navigates this year's presidential election. For insider political reasons, they can't support Biden or Sanders. But for a long time, it was unclear who the alternative candidate they could support would be. | When Kamala Harris was rising, CAP's staff was doing overtime boosting her on Twitter and in the press, including boosting Harris's absurd health care proposal. But Harris's collapse put an end to that strategy. Recently Warren has risen as the alternative and so CAP has been working to promote her campaign, which puts CAP in the comical positi…
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