Commentary: With President Biden s proposed programs on Infrastructure and Families, Republicans are calling them socialism ideas that will move us toward communist countries like Cuba or Venezuela. That is not true. Capitalism does a good job of providing goods and services like automobiles, groceries, electronics, banking, repairs, haircuts, and clothing. But there are certain collective needs that the private sector has little incentive to provide such as public education, roads and bridges, broadband access in rural areas, mass transportation, childcare, police, retraining programs, and basic research. To have a successful society, we need both.
We have a mixed capitalism /socialism economy. However, during the last 40 years we have reduced funding for collective needs creating greater inequality. Most other developed countries like Western Europe, Canada and Australia have done a much better job in quality education of everyone, access to affordable health care and providing re
The time for TRIPS Waiver is now. The Left group in the European Parliament has been asking the European Commission to support the waiver of Covid-19 patents for months. Now that the Biden administration has declared its support, Von der Leyen cannot hold back.
“President Biden’s decision to support the TRIPS waiver at the WTO is a game-changer. The European Union is now the last place in the world to protect big pharmas’ profits over public health. Von der Leyen had to concede this morning she was ‘ready to discuss’ but this is not enough. Too much time has already been lost: we want immediate action!” Left Co-President
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With President Biden marking the 100 day milestone of his administration with an ambitious plan for the United States, the Republican opposition, with Donald Trump still its leader, is fixated on a cockamamie scheme to overturn the previous election. Rachel Maddow reports that after days of a bumbling pro-Trump ballot examination in Arizona, actual elections experts are being sent to supervise. April 30, 2021
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Maddow Blog | Actual elections experts head to Arizona as Trump, GOP fixates on clumsy audit stunt MSNBC 4/30/2021
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With President Biden marking the 100 day milestone of his administration with an ambitious plan for the United States, the Republican opposition, with Donald Trump still its leader, is fixated on a cockamamie scheme to overturn the previous election. Rachel Maddow reports that after days of a bumbling pro-Trump ballot examination in Arizona, actual elections experts are being sent to supervise.
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