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There are counties in the U.S. where you’re beating the odds if you make it past 70, writes Richard Eskow. The country should stop tinkering around. It needs Medicare for All. By Richard Eskow Common Dreams From The Economist, Sept. 28: "Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect."

It’s not just a man who is imprisoned for the crime of good journalism, but also the idea that anyone should be permitted to expose the criminality of the world’s most powerful and tyrannical people, writes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.au Listen to Tim Foley readin

The wave of global popular protests that erupted in 2010 and lasted a decade were extinguished, meaning new tactics and strategies are required, as Vincent Bevins explains in his book If We Burn. By Chris Hedges Original to ScheerPost There was a decade of popular uprisings from 2010 unti

Four events have shattered NATO's drive for enlargement eastward. Now, decisions by the U.S. and Russia will matter enormously for the entire world's peace, security and wellbeing. By Jeffrey D. Sachs Common Dreams We are entering the end stage of the 30-year U.S. neoconservative debacle

The foreign policy of the Slovak Social Democracy Party, which won in last week's parliamentary elections, represents a 180-degree turn from the position of the current government, Joyce Chediac reports. By Joyce Chediac Peoples Dispatch The E.U. and NATO consensus on arming Ukraine and san

The quest for decisive U.S. military superiority over Beijing and the ability to win a war against a nuclear-armed power should be considered a fool’s errand, writes William D. Hartung. But it isn’t. By William D. Hartung TomDispatch.com On Aug. 28, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H

Francis Fukuyama's triumphalist post-Cold War vision of liberal democracy — published in 1989 — had a major blindspot. It omitted history. By Scott Ritter Special to Consortium News “What we are witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or a passing of a particular period of postwar

Within the current spiral of crises, Vijay Prashad focuses on the deepening problems of gender inequality in a system that refuses to build social wealth. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Dilemmas of humanity abound. There is little need to look at statistic

Over 2,500 migrants died or went missing trying to cross the sea to reach Europe so far this year, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reports, noting a striking increase from last year. By Peoples Dispatch Over 2,500 people died or went missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean

That weapons systems are being tested on human bodies to the immense benefit of war profiteers over a completely avoidable and provoked war is nightmarishly depraved.  By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com.au Listen to Tim Foley reading this article. A heartbreaking graphic is going ar