Ocasio-Cortez Explains "Fundamentally Broken" US Democracy | News & Views

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[] [To Galvanize Local Organizing for Medicare for All, Nurses Union to Kick Off Nationwide 'Barnstorms' This Weekend](1f9d0/ct4_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) 1f9d0/ct5_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH by Jessica Corbett, staff writer Building on rising public support for scrapping the nation's for-profit healthcare system and replacing it with Medicare for All, the nation's largest nurses union—along with progressive allies—on Saturday will kick off a week of barnstorms in cities and communities across the United States. --------------------------------------------------------------- ['Exactly What I Was Worried About': Warren Warns New Big Bank Merger Will Increase Risk of Another Crash](1f9d0/ct6_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) 1f9d0/ct7_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH by Jake Johnson, staff writer "We can't let banks become too big to fail again: American families will suffer." --------------------------------------------------------------- ["Inspired and Inspiring": 10-Year-Old Boy Scout Wins Praise After Taking a Knee During Pledge of Allegiance](1f9d0/ct8_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) 1f9d0/ct9_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH by Julia Conley, staff writer A 10-year-old Boy Scout won the praise of a local mayor as well as online observers Friday when the story of his decision to peacefully protest during the Pledge of Allegiance went viral. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Venezuelan Officials Say They Intercepted Arms and Ammo Delivered by US-Based Plane](1f9d0/ct10_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) 1f9d0/ct11_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH by Jake Johnson, staff writer The country's vice minister of citizen security said weapons shipment was "financed by the fascist extreme right and the government of the United States." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Warnings of Trumpism 'Forever' as Senate GOP Rams Through 44 Lifetime Judges in One Day](1f9d0/ct12_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) [McConnell, Trump](1f9d0/ct13_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) by Jessica Corbett, staff writer With the nation's eyes largely elsewhere in a sea of distraction on Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee quietly advanced 44 of President Donald Trump's federal judicial nominees in what civil rights defenders denounced as a "monster markup" that threatens to leave the president's dangerous ideological footprint on the nation's courts for generations to come. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ocasio-Cortez Not Fazed by Can 'Democratic Socialism' and 'Capitalism' Coexist Question](1f9d0/ct14_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) 1f9d0/ct15_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH by Jon Queally, staff writer Fresh off an introduction of a historic resolution on the Green New Deal, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Thursday evening did not have a problem grappling with the question over whether the ideologies of democratic socialism and capitalism can coexist, saying she's not one who thinks in simplistic terms about the nature of the economy but believes the most important thing is the power and voice that workers enjoy within businesses and beyond. --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [] [More News](1f9d0/ct16_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) [] [] Views... [] [Everybody Wants ‘Medicare for All’—Except Our Leaders](1f9d0/ct17_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) [A volunteer hands out a poster as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was set to address a “Medicare for All” rally in downtown Columbia, S.C., in October 2018. (Photo: Meg Kinnard / AP)](1f9d0/ct18_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) by Sonali Kolhatkar The enemies are manifold: Republicans seeking to end all government assistance, private insurance companies seeking to preserve the status quo, and Democrats backing those companies --------------------------------------------------------------- [We All Have "Skin in the Game." That's Why We Need Medicare for All.](1f9d0/ct19_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) [At least one in ten adults delay or forgo needed care entirely due to cost, a number that jumps to one in five for adults in worse health, and nearly one in three for people who have no insurance. (Photo: Michael Fleshman/flickr/cc)](1f9d0/ct20_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) by Chuck Idelson On the ongoing push to skin patients needing care --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ricardo Hausmann Is Taking Milton Friedman’s Lessons to Venezuela](1f9d0/ct21_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) [Ricardo Hausmann is both an economic and academic hitman, one who is willing to sell off his own birth country. (Photo: Youtube Screenshot) ](1f9d0/ct22_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) by Tanya Rawal-Jindia Will the legacy of putting neoliberal academic theories over the people win again? --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Venezuela Myth Keeping Us From Transforming Our Economy](1f9d0/ct23_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) [Although Venezuela is not technically at war, it is suffering from foreign currency strains triggered by aggressive attacks by a foreign power. U.S. economic sanctions have been going on for years, causing the country at least $20 billion in losses. (Photo: Alex Lanz / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) ](1f9d0/ct24_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) by Ellen Brown "Capitalism is quite simply incapable of regulating itself, and that is precisely where progressive governments and progressive government legislation needs to step in." --------------------------------------------------------------- [Labor Strikes, Once Blunted by GOP and Corporations, are Back and Shaping Public Policy](1f9d0/ct25_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) [Perhaps the strike is not really extinct. (Photo: Screenshot) ](1f9d0/ct26_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) by John Buell Even within the private sector there are stirrings we have not heard in many years --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Right-Wing Press and Violence Against Women: Terrible When Abroad, Ignored When at Home](1f9d0/ct27_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) 1f9d0/ct28_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH by Christian Christensen To these outlets, progressive politics on gender equality is not evidence of a more enlightened view of society, but of a capitulation to the tyranny of egalitarianism --------------------------------------------------------------- [] [More Views](1f9d0/ct29_0/1?sid=TV2%3Aqq4cyjTyH) [] [] Newswire... 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