Private insurers that offer a “Medicare Advantage” plan have milked Medicare’s public coffers fraudulently for billions of dollars. Medicare is among the most popular and essential social programs in the United States, providing healthcare coverage to most working...
Last week, a Russian court rejected U.S. basketball superstar Brittney Griner’s appeal of her nine-year prison sentence for the so-called crime of possessing two vape cartridges of marijuana in her luggage. At her trial, Griner admitted to having the canisters — a...
According to a new Greenpeace USA report, most plastic cannot even be recycled. Out of the 51 million tons of plastic waste produced by the U.S. in 2021, only about 2.4 million tons were actually recycled. And what happened to the rest? Sent to China, the dump, or,...
This is a translation of an article that appeared in Prensa Obrera on October 30, 2022, the website of the Trotskyist Party, Partido Obrero of Argentina, (Workers’ Party). The final data (99.99% of the polling stations counted) show that Lula da Silva won the election...
At AC Transit in the San Francisco Bay area, workers contribute to a workplace newsletter. Here are some of their recent writings written after a bus driver was assaulted on the job. On Deaf Ears By now, all of us have probably seen the video of the...
