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Featured Editorials

Two Outstanding Essays On "Flyover Country"

Submitted by bobswern on Tue, 11/15/2016 - 7:21am

Raul Ilargi Meijer (a/k/a Ilargi) and Marshall Auerback have published two, truly outstanding essays over at The Automatic Earth and Counterpunch/Naked Capitalism, respectively, over the past 48 hours. They're both exceptionally noteworthy--and they both focus upon "flyover country"--so I'm going to provide a few excerpts and strongly encourage all reading this to DEFINITELY click upon the links and savor both of these salient posts in their entirety.

Protesters Arrested Asking Chuck Schumer to Step Asside

Submitted by MsGrin on Tue, 11/15/2016 - 12:10am

We're re-claiming the party!

From The Hill:

Protesters block Schumer’s office, call for new leadership

Seventeen demonstrators were arrested on Monday while staging a sit-in against Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) at the incoming Senate minority leader’s office in Washington, D.C., according to a new report.

Are we going to change our habits to save the planet?

Submitted by don mikulecky on Mon, 11/14/2016 - 9:55pm

The election distraction lingers on. Meanwhile everyone is gearing up to spend like crazy for the "holidays". The only real way to try to stop the onslaught we are making on the climate is to change our habits in a big way. What better way to start than by not spending except for what we really need to live?

Bernie's delegates were spied on by Clinton

Submitted by quince on Mon, 11/14/2016 - 3:32pm

In a May email released by DC Leaks, Marlon Marshall, the director of states and political engagement for the Hillary Clinton campaign, forwarded two documents to several top Clinton staffers. One of these was a spreadsheet of detailed information about several Bernie Sanders supporters and Sanders delegates. This was described as part of a “Unity Check” for the Democratic Party.

Healthcare Action Daily: Ryan Repubadems to let 20,000 die

Submitted by divineorder on Mon, 11/14/2016 - 9:58am

After reading BigAl's healthcare related essay yesterday did a little digging as this is a big issue for me. We have had to pay out around $15,000-20,000 out of savings in the last 5 years as opposed to over $120,000 had we had no coverage. Jakkalbessie and I both had big hospital events and extended treatment since we retired 12 years ago, and would have been bankrupt by now without our shitty teacher retirement healthcare that now has it's funding in question at the state level.

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