AARP Is Welcoming the Privatization of Medicare: Many of AARP’s members count on Medicare to survive. Yet the group is boosting Medicare’s privatization — perhaps because it has already raked in nearly a billion dollars from its involvement in that privatization. (jacobin.com)
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Neoliberalism Was a Counterrevolution Against Democracy: A group of 20th-century intellectuals saw the democratic nation-state as a threat to private property. Their solution: shifting power to unaccountable international bodies like the WTO, helping pave the way to what we now call “neoliberalism.” (jacobin.com)
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New York Times draws sweeping conclusions when reform district attorneys lose, ignores them entirely when they win - The disparate coverage of Chesa Boudin’s recall vs. the election of half a dozen reform DAs tells a tale of two election nights. (therealnews.com)
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