Framing Climate Change as a “National Security Priority” Isn’t A Clever Maneuver To Get People To Care By Adam H. Johnson, Medium. November 25, 2020 Framing Climate Change as a “National Security Priority” Isn’t A Clever Maneuver To Get People To Care2020-11-252020-11-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/kerry-1-e1606322761412.jpg200px200px It’s a Centrist Co-option Strategy to Bloat the Budgets of ICE and the Pentagon. Read the fine print before rushing to deem climate change […]
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As Racism Plagues Health Care, Unions Offer A Treatment By Alex J. Rouhandeh, The American Prospect. November 23, 2020 As Racism Plagues Health Care, Unions Offer A Treatment2020-11-232020-11-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/unions.jpg200px200px Above photo: Members of SEIU 1199 New England marched last summer to demand new laws to protect long-term caregivers and consumers, July 23, 2020, in Hartford, Connecticut. Jessica Hill/AP. Health care workers of color are twice as likely […]
On Contact: Covid-19 And America’s Health Care Crisis November 22, 2020 On Contact: Covid-19 And America’s Health Care Crisis2020-11-222020-11-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/mflowers.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Dr. Margaret Flowers about the Covid-19 pandemic and the catastrophic response to the public health crisis under America’s for-profit healthcare system. Without national coordination, or universal and free national health care, Americans are faced with uneven or absent care due to hospital closures, […]
Beyond COVID-19: The Power Struggle Over Alternatives For Health Care Reform By John Geyman, Counterpunch. November 20, 2020 Beyond COVID-19: The Power Struggle Over Alternatives For Health Care Reform2020-11-202020-11-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/cp-e1605884502823.jpg200px200px Above photo: Anthony Quintano. Today we face the COVID-19 pandemic, with its resultant economic downturn and systemic racism—the triple crises that have exposed the serious problems of U. S. health care. It is now obvious to most […]
Health Care For Millions On The Line By Hajira Hasghar, Liberation News. November 14, 2020 Health Care For Millions On The Line2020-11-142020-11-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/healthcare-e1605367274411.jpg200px200px Above photo: People show support for the Affordable Care Act in a demonstration outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington Nov. 10. CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn. Ultra-right Supreme Court hears challenge to ACA. Oral arguments began in the case California v. Texas this week, just days after […]
See if you can look like this for a selfie. Bet you can’t, not if you are mostly mammal. First of all, we haven’t addressed the real elephant in the room…was the whole thing a hoax? As no medical proof of Trump’s illness has been offered, as with other presidents, we may well be dealing with pure fakery, especially since he is touting an experimental cure […]
There’s plenty of reasons to worry in Wisconsin these days. While the crucial swing state maintains its standing as a national hotspot for the coronavirus and spiking cases and hospitalizations have alarmed health experts and local officials, Republicans there are continuing to attack Democratic Gov. Tony Evers over the emergency authority he’s relying on to try and combat the virus. “I don’t care if (the governor’s) […]
“Republicans have been trying to drive a stake into the heart of Obamacare pretty much since it was passed — both through legislation and litigation,” New York Times reporter Sarah Kliff says. Source link
A growing number of economists and analysts – and even the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs – have speculated this year that the U.S. dollar might be on the cusp of losing its status as the dominant reserve currency for central banks around the world. That possibility has helped to support this year’s 50% increase in prices for bitcoin, seen by many cryptocurrency investors as a […]
COVID-19 Cases Among Health Care Workers Under-Reported By Kristian Hernandez, Fort Worth Star Telegram. October 1, 2020 COVID-19 Cases Among Health Care Workers Under-Reported2020-10-012020-10-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/0407-testing02.jpg200px200px Above photo: A nurse administers a COVID-19 test at a drive-through testing site in Burleson in April. A new study found that health care workers have almost twice as many cases than reported by the CDC. Amanda McCoy/Star Telegram. Fiana Tulip spent the last […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/1a/1080576658_0:280:2677:1785_1200x675_80_0_0_5d21d9a0311d7f1ab612c6eab21cab38.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009261080576688-massachusetts-charges-care-facility-managers-with-criminal-neglect-over-76-covid-19-deaths/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A grand jury in the US state of Massachusetts has indicted for criminal neglect two managers of a veterans care facility whose actions contributed to the death of at least 76 residents during the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak, State Attorney General Maura Healey said in a statement. The prosecution is focused on a 27 March decision […]
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The massive leak of suspicious activity reports shows how banks let the government know about likely money laundering, then go right on providing services. The FinCEN Files are a leaked cache of suspicious activity reports filed by banks with the U.S .Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. The more than 2,000 files, representing $2 trillion in transactions, were leaked to BuzzFeed News more than a year ago. BuzzFeed, […]
Niticia Mpanga, a registered respiratory therapist, checks on an ICU patient at Oakbend Medical Center in Richmond, Texas. The mortality rates from COVID-19 in ICUs have been decreasing worldwide, doctors say, at least partly because of recent advances in treatment. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images Niticia Mpanga, a registered respiratory therapist, checks on an ICU patient at […]
News Media Who Ignore The Assange Trial Are Admitting They Don’t Care About Journalism September 18, 2020 News Media Who Ignore The Assange Trial Are Admitting They Don’t Care About Journalism2020-09-182020-09-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/medium-5.jpg200px200px Above photo: Garry Knight. The Sydney Morning Herald just published an article titled “Julian Assange interrupts extradition hearing again” about the WikiLeaks founder’s correct interjection that he never put anyone’s lives in danger with the publication of the […]
The Senior Editor Syrian’s are starving, their wheat crop this year was burned by US Army Rangers on illegal orders. Their drinking water supplies were cut off by Turkey and, in Damascus, over and over, Israeli missile attacks on the local water purification and pumping system, deemed a military target by Israel. The real damage is done by the Caesar Act, which keeps Syria from buying […]
When 28-year-old Katie Kinsey moved from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles in early March she didn’t expect the pandemic would affect her directly, at least not right away. But that’s exactly what happened. She was still settling in, and didn’t yet have a primary care doctor when she got sick with symptoms of what she feared was COVID-19. “I had a sore throat and a debilitating […]
Legal Care For All By Kieran Szuchewycz and Katharina Maier, Canadian Dimension. September 17, 2020 Legal Care For All2020-09-172020-09-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/scales_of_justice-e1600352553116.jpg200px200px Above photo: Looking up at a closeup of the statue of Blind Justice on the front of the Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia. Tim Evanson/Flickr. Why Canada needs a system of universal legal representation. For most Canadians, a legal crisis will often have devastating financial consequences. We understand […]
Write postcards on a weekly basis. Go for scenic drives. Schedule virtual TV time. Use family history as a topic for virtual lessons. (Image credit: Malaka Gharib/ NPR) Source link
Republican and Democrat politicians have both embraced legislation to immunize themselves and their deep-pocketed corporate donors from legal liability for ill-thought-out pandemic policies blamed for the deaths of thousands. Republicans in the Senate have all but plagiarized a controversial provision from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo that will offer legal immunity to corporations that ran the care homes in which hundreds of thousands of elderly Americans […]
Three experts share advice on how to help the older people in our lives — parents, grandparents, neighbors, relatives, friends — feel comfortable and safe in the pandemic. (Image credit: Malaka Gharib/ NPR) Source link
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There has been fierce debate across the UK as to whether the government should delay the reopening of educational institutions due to the fear that they may act as incubators for a possible second nation-wide outbreak of COVID-19. Britain’s leading higher education union has reportedly warned that university campuses may become the “care homes of the second wave of COVID-19.” In an interview with Sky News, […]
US President Donald Trump has hinted that he could invoke a law allowing federal troops to be deployed against local authorities’ wishes after Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler demanded he “stays away” from the violence-plagued city. “If the incompetent Mayor of Portland, Ted Wheeler, doesn’t get control of his city and stop the Anarchists, Agitators, Rioters and Looters, causing great danger to innocent people, we will go […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008291080310241-trump-vows-to-go-in-and-take-care-of-portland-if-mayor-wheeler-doesnt-get-control-of-city/ Earlier, US President Donald Trump questioned “Are you listening Portland?”, when touting that the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, saw no violence after the National Guard troops were deployed there amid a series of violent protests sparked after the shooting of a black man Jacob Blake by the police officers. As Portland has been seeing continued unrest, President Donald Trump […]
At 9:30 p.m., as hundreds of protesters marched down Kenosha’s streets to protest a police shooting that left 29-year-old Jacob Blake paralyzed, National Association of Police Organizations President Michael McHale took to the stage at the Republican convention to chide Democrats for disrespecting America’s police officers. “Chaos results when elected officials in cities like Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York make the conscious and very public […]
Care Facilities Have Become Death Traps Due to COVID-19 COVID-19 turned their Miami Springs nursing home into a death trap. The virus killed 52. https://t.co/xbZgubNhS5 — Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics (@bermaninstitute) August 25, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: The people who are in nursing and care homes have been hit the hardest by coronavirus. Some care facilities have lost a large percentage of their residents […]
A fresh study by the Queen’s Nursing Institute, one of the oldest British social care charities, has cited a number of insiders sharing the nitty-gritty details of the nation’s battle with the coronavirus, as well as updated figures on the heavy toll it has had on the NHS. UK nursing homes were “constantly pressed” to accept corona-infected and untested residents after they were discharged from packed […]
UK care home staff was “under constant pressure” from the NHS to take in coronavirus-positive and untested patients, while nurses were instructed not to resuscitate them, a new study has revealed. In a study whose key findings were first published by the Independent, the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) surveyed nurses and managers working in 163 care homes across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The staff at […]
Dr. Dinora Chinchilla is finally taking a month off after working seven consecutive months. Courtesy of Nicole Cataldi hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Nicole Cataldi Dr. Dinora Chinchilla is finally taking a month off after working seven consecutive months. Courtesy of Nicole Cataldi After five months working shifts at an emergency department in Oakland, Douglas Frey says he’s mentally and physically spent. Most days the […]
A late July daycare drop off in Queens, N.Y., during the community’s “phase 4 reopening” of businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Lindsey Nicholson/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Lindsey Nicholson/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A late July daycare drop off in Queens, N.Y., during the community’s “phase 4 reopening” of businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Lindsey Nicholson/Education Images/Universal Images […]
Alexey Navalny, a long-time protest leader, has fallen ill while flying from Siberia to Moscow. He is said to be unconscious in intensive care, where he was admitted after the plane made an emergency landing. Navalny was on his way from the Siberian city of Tomsk back to Moscow when he suddenly felt unwell mid-flight, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote in a series of tweets on […]
By Rachana Pradhan and Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News As the coronavirus crisis deepened in April, Georgia officials circulated documents showing that to get through the next month, the state would need millions more masks, gowns and other supplies than it had on hand. The projections, obtained by KHN and other organizations in response to public records requests, provide one of the clearest pictures of the […]
U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block Stops Administration From Enforcing Regulation Monday’s preliminary injunction from U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn bars the administration from enforcing the regulation until the case can be heard in court and decided. https://t.co/sAWU7jLBM5 — WTVG 13abc (@13abc) August 18, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: Trumps administration’s regulation that would roll back health care protections for transgender people has been […]
During COVID-19, The Risk To Health Care Workers Has Never Been Greater By Sam Pizzigati, Inequality. August 17, 2020 During COVID-19, The Risk To Health Care Workers Has Never Been Greater2020-08-172020-08-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/covid-patient-in-brooklyn-ny-from-reuters-e1597685886412.jpg200px200px How’s pandemic life been going for you? If you work in America’s health care industry, that depends. That totally depends. If you happen to provide health care services to actual Covid-19 patients — as a nurse […]
The Pandemic Revealed That Child Care Is Vital Work By Andrea Ringer, LAWCHA.org. August 15, 2020 The Pandemic Revealed That Child Care Is Vital Work2020-08-152020-08-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/img_0830-e1597507009536.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Revolutionary Mothering panel hosted by MARCH, Memphis TN, 2018. A Conversation with Memphis Advocates for Radical Childcare (M.A.R.CH.) co-founder Phuong Nguyen. The COVID-19 pandemic has created several shifts across the labor landscape while exposing how piecemeal family care policies have […]
Back in May we reported that New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, MD and Executive Deputy Commissioner Sally Dreslin’s actions led to thousands of deaths in New York state. Yaacov Apelbaum at the Illustrated Primer shared that these New York politicians are accountable for thousands of nursing home deaths because of their insane directives related to the China coronavirus. Apelbaum first pointed out the […]
Nobody Accurately Tracks Health Care Workers Lost To COVID-19 By Nina Martin, ProPublica. August 3, 2020 Nobody Accurately Tracks Health Care Workers Lost To COVID-192020-08-032020-08-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/tracking-health-care-workers-by-yann-kebbi-special-to-propublica-e1596474763862.jpg200px200px Above phto: Tracking health care workers by Yann Kebbi, special to ProPublica. Anesthesiologist Claire Rezba started tracking lost health workers almost instinctively. Researchers and industry professionals say the lack of good official data on these deaths is “scandalous” and is putting lives in danger. […]
SDI Productions/Getty Images SDI Productions/Getty Images Kirk Gallegos is a single father of four. He works construction in Barstow, Calif. Prudence Carter is a single mother of one. She’s the dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Both of them share the same problem with tens of millions of other parents around the country: Their public schools aren’t operating full […]
US Democratic Party Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was blasted on Twitter for proposing that police officers be swapped with mental health staff at schools. Many argued online that the idea would make the schools even less safe. Omar tweeted that “over-policing doesn’t make them safer – it criminalizes Black and brown students.” Along with fellow Representative Ayanna Pressley, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Murphy, she proposed a […]
The mainstream media doesn’t care about the truth – they only care about promoting liberal lies and lunacy in order to place and keep liberals in power. The Trump-Russia collusion scandal is just another excellent example of this. The MSM clearly doesn’t care about the truth. The major media outlets are constantly pushing lies and liberal gaarbage to further the power of those opposed to America […]
Trump Administration Announces New Resources to Protect Nursing Home Residents Against COVID-19 CMS.gov Press Release As part of the unprecedented efforts taken by the Trump Administration, President Trump today announced several new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initiatives designed to protect nursing home residents from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). “From the moment the threat of this virus materialized, the Trump Administration has placed a […]
…from the Senior Editor OK, yesterday I took Trump’s ‘mental competency’ test. What it doesn’t do is test for intelligence, perception or sanity. It tested short term memory, rudimentary at best, and looked for early onset dementia. Do you want me to recite the dialog from ‘Groundhog Day’ or maybe 100 other films? Video two will test Trump’s memory, he doesn’t have one. Do watch the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/15/1079947772_0:0:2969:1670_1200x675_80_0_0_12fd3345194c571a017d55be72d06563.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007211079947755-biden-unveils-775-billion-plan-to-fund-universal-child-care-in-home-elder-care/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Presumed US Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a $775 billion 10-year economic plan that will tighten America’s tax laws and make rich property developers pay for child care and elder care. “Growth in our economy slowed. This is both a moral and economic imperative for the nation”, Biden told a […]
With cases on the rise, people want to know: How do I look after a family member who’s been diagnosed and is at home? And how do I show support for a friend with the virus? (Image credit: Malaka Gharib/ NPR) Source link
Days after the $15-million-a-year star was criticized for playfully taking a nap in the stands while his side played, Gareth Bale cut an isolated figure in Real Madrid’s celebrations as they secured their 34th Liga title. Bale celebrated his 31st birthday as an unused substitute during Real Madrid’s 2-1 win at home to Villarreal that secured the trophy with a match of the season to spare, […]
Robert Speker wanted to keep spirits up while visitors and outside entertainment were banned due to COVID-19. His ingenious idea: cast the residents as rock stars. (Image credit: Screengrab by NPR/Robert Speker on Twitter) Source link
This week, the Supreme Court upheld Trump’s exceptions to the Affordable Care Act, which will allow universities and employers to deny insurers free birth control due to moral objections. The outcry from women’s rights advocates was swift. Many insisted that contraception is an imperative part of health care for women. On Twitter, former California congresswoman Katie Hill was quick to note that birth control does more […]
A salon owner in Minneapolis has been left with “nothing” after her business was “burned to the ground” in riots after the killing of George Floyd, and she says the city has done nothing to help with her predicament. “It hurts to know that I have no business. I have nothing,” Fiona Westbrooks told Fox and Friends on Thursday. “I don’t even have a styling chair […]
Today’s Revolution Includes Kale, Medical Care And Help With Rent By Rinku Sen, ZocaloPublicSquare.org. July 8, 2020 Today’s Revolution Includes Kale, Medical Care And Help With Rent2020-07-082020-07-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/mutual-aid-societiesl-e1594229471358.jpg200px200px Above photo: Laura Porras, right, prepares bags of fresh vegetables as Justin Ruiz, 17, left, and Porras’ niece Ana Karen Porras, 14, help in the vestibule at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107979/28/1079792877_0:0:3000:1688_1200x675_80_0_0_5d3f3942b13c195db3b6945a699edfd3.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/asia/202007041079792915-fourteen-reportedly-dead-at-japanese-care-home-amid-widespread-flooding-landslides/ TOKYO (Sputnik) – Rescuers have found 14 people without vital signs at a care home in the Japanese settlement of Kuma, in Kumamoto prefecture, after heavy rains led to severe flooding and landslides, the Kyodo News agency reports on Saturday. The individuals were found in states of cardiac and pulmonary arrest, the broadcaster stated, adding that doctors must first […]
Meet the grim reaper of Texas. Not that state Attorney General Ken Paxton outwardly resembles the hooded, scythe-wielding spectre from the time of the Black Death. But 14th century Europe had no figure quite like this Lone Star politician from the present pandemic. Here is a guy who is actively opposing measures to keep a deadly contagion from spreading even as he leads an effort that […]
A Better Health Care System? By Sarah Jaffe, The Progressive. June 25, 2020 A Better Health Care System?2020-06-252020-06-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/veterans-administration-protest-in-atlanta-georgia-from-the-progressive-e1593106570684.jpg200px200px Above photo: Veterans Administration protest in Atlanta, Georgia from The Progressive. Despite glitches during the pandemic, the VA provides a model for the nation. The last Sheila Elliott heard, the health care workers at the Hampton VA Medical Center in Hampton, Virginia, were getting a batch of personal protective […]
To help with social distancing, children at Valley of the Sun YMCA sites in Arizona were taught to make “airplane arms” when standing in line. Courtesy of Valley of the Sun YMCA hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Valley of the Sun YMCA To help with social distancing, children at Valley of the Sun YMCA sites in Arizona were taught to make “airplane arms” when standing […]
Mike Padgham, chair of the Independent Care Homes Group (ICG), explains why many care and nursing homes in England and Wales were already on shaky ground, financially speaking, even before the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Padgham runs four separate care homes as well as provides voluntary support and representation to other providers via the ICG. Sputnik: You have been warning of care and nursing homes […]
About 1,000 Health Care Workers Petitioned Arizona Governor to Make Face Masks Mandatory in Public Places David Schulzinger started this petition to Martha McSally and 2 others Petition Title: Make masks mandatory in Public Places throughout Arizona Governor Ducey, I find it unacceptable that your answer is that business must continue and that we need to learn to live alongside Covid. I find it unacceptable that you are not mandating masks. […]
“So they’re going to get away with it?” my wife asked me recently with a mix of anger and resignation in her voice. “Whatever happened to that story? It just disappeared.” “They” are the U.S. border patrol agents, guards and supervisors who manage–or who have managed in recent years–those notorious U.S. government-funded detention facilities that house migrant and refugee children. They take custody of these children, […]
A release of body camera footage by the Oklahoma City Police Department (OKCPD) has reignited calls for reform and justice, as officers depicted in the video recording are overheard denying a dying man’s request for his medicine and countering his plea of not being able to breathe. The previously withheld raw footage of the OKCPD shows cops responding to a call of a man brandishing a […]
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s largest donor is involved in the elderly care business. Not only did he help the donor make millions on COVID-19 but he also provided them immunity from legal ramifications as well. We previously reported on New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo, Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, MD and Executive Deputy Commissioner Sally Dreslin for having coronavirus blood on their hands. Their actions led […]
Dirck Halstead/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Every June—Pride Month—I powerfully remember being at the bedside of my dying partner, Eddie, where I made a promise. It was the early 1990s, when HIV/AIDS was killing gay men and people of color in New York. We were all scared, and the person I feared for the most was Eddie. I loved him dearly, a jazz musician who […]
They Black Lives Matter criminals are back out in force today across the country.In Philly this afternoon the Black Lives Matter activists are looting the local Target store like they’re Sunday shopping. Advertisement – story continues below In the video you can see Black Lives Matter criminals leaving Target with shopping carts full of merchandise.And they aren’t running to their cars. They’re taking their time knowing […]
Health Care Workers Call On Labor Movement To Take Action May 30, 2020 Health Care Workers Call On Labor Movement To Take Action2020-05-302020-05-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ed-dsc00563-1000×600-e1590849228563.jpg200px200px A group of socialist health care workers put forward a statement in solidarity with actions against police and racist violence, demanding justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, and Sean Reed, and call on unions and healthcare organizations to take […]
Cryptocurrency traders don’t seem to care that Goldman Sachs is such a bitcoin hater. At least, that’s the signal markets are sending. Bitcoin prices have surged since the Wall Street heavyweight’s money-management division declared in a presentation this week that the cryptocurrency is “not a suitable investment for our clients,” merely a beneficiary of a “mania” worse than the infamous run on Dutch tulips in the 1600s. You’re […]
Health Care Crisis: Future Is Up To Us By Rita Valenti, Popular Resistance. May 29, 2020 Health Care Crisis: Future Is Up To Us2020-05-292020-05-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/ga1.jpg200px200px Above photo: Mary Spoto, general manager of Madison Chop House Grille, prepares the restaurant to shift from takeout-only to dine-in service. Information that influenced Gov. Brian Kemp’s decision to reopen the state may have distorted perceptions of progress against the coronavirus. John Bazemore/ AP. A […]
Justice Buress, 4, hides under a table while demonstrating a drill at Little Explorers Learning Center in St. Louis. Tess Trice, head of the day care program, carries out monthly drills to train the children to get on the floor when they hear gunfire. Carolina Hidalgo/St. Louis Public Radio hide caption toggle caption Carolina Hidalgo/St. Louis Public Radio Justice Buress, 4, hides under a table while […]
Public health officials worry that the mostly low-income and immigrant populations served by community health centers aren’t getting proper health care and testing. Maskot/Getty Images/Maskot hide caption toggle caption Maskot/Getty Images/Maskot Public health officials worry that the mostly low-income and immigrant populations served by community health centers aren’t getting proper health care and testing. Maskot/Getty Images/Maskot Community health centers had been at the front lines of […]
Downing Street and the Labour Party have become embroiled in a spat over official UK government guidance issued in February over the risk Covid-19 poses to care homes, with each side accusing the other of misleading the public. During PMQs in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Labour leader Keir Starmer quoted from the Public Health England (PHE) document – which remained in force until March […]
UK 14:45 GMT 13.05.2020Get short URL Care homes in the United Kingdom have been disproportionately impacted by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic seeing elderly and sick residents die in large numbers as the country jumps to the highest Covid-19 death toll in Europe. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer called on Boris Johnson to “correct the record” after the Prime Minister claimed that the government did […]
Bill Maher ripped the mask shielding the hypocrisy of the Democrat Party right off on Friday when he asserted that members of the party should assert that they don’t care if Joe Biden is a sexual predator. During an episode of his show on Friday night, Maher said that Democrats should respond to the allegations by asserting “don’t know, never will, don’t care.” Biden is credibly […]
By Rachana Pradhan and Fred Schulte | Kaiser Health News The Trump administration has sent hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic-related bailouts to health care providers with checkered histories, including a Florida-based cancer center that agreed to pay a $100 million criminal penalty as part of a federal antitrust investigation. At least half of the top 10 recipients, part of a group that received $20 […]
Defying public-health guidelines and putting senators at risk to elevate a favorite judge to the second highest court in the land, Mitch McConnell behaves like a man who knows his time is running out. He’s already filled some 200 federal judgeships with young, Federalist Society approved conservatives poised to overturn the Affordable Care Act. With the election looking iffy for the president, McConnell has dropped all […]