Senator Bernie Sanders, (I-Vt), - Reader Supported News
Stephan: And finally let me close the edition with this... What we could do, what we could be... if socially progressive adults who had national wellness as a first priority made policy.
Today in the United States, unemployment is too high, wages and income are too low, people are struggling to find affordable health care and the wealth and income gap is growing wider. Millions of working families are finding it hard to make ends meet and maintain a dignified standard of living.
In Denmark, social policy in areas like health care, child care, education and protecting the unemployed are part of a ‘solidarity system’ that provides strong opportunity and security for all citizens. Danes pay high taxes, but in return enjoy a quality of life that many Americans would envy.
Denmark is a small, homogenous nation of about 5.5 million people. The United States is a melting pot of more than 315 million people. No question about it, Denmark and the United States are very different countries. But are there lessons we can learn from the social model in Denmark? If you’re interested in the answer, please attend one of a series of town meetings that I am holding throughout Vermont this weekend with Danish Ambassador Peter Taksoe-Jensen. On Saturday, the ambassador will join me for town meetings at 1 p.m. at Burlington City Hall and at 7 p.m. at the Brattleboro Museum […]
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JOAN WALSH, Editor-at-Large - Salon
Stephan: This is a very acute assessment of the Washington 'Beltway' media.
The great Charles Pierce may deride it as ‘Tiger Beat on the Potomac,
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Eric W. Dolan, - The Raw Story
Stephan: It would be hard to find a more shallow and jejune assessment of the gun issue. you would think a person like this would be on medication, not in the Senate. Yet, this is what passes for conservative political statesmanship in 21st century America.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Saturday warned President Barack Obama was working on behalf of ‘anti-American globalists
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JAMES HANSON, - The Age (Australia)
Stephan: We seem unable as a society to serve the whole and not just the wealthy few.
Exploiting oil and gas trapped in tar sands and shale threatens to make climate change ‘unsolvable,
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RICHARD A. LOVETT and NATURE MAGAZINE, - Nature
Stephan: An aspect of climate change that I, for one, never considered. The Earth is a vast complex interlocking system, and when one part changes the whole system changes. Only our arrogance, greed of the few, and the stupidity of our government keeps us from seeing this.
Global warming is changing the location of Earth’s geographic poles, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters.
Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, report that increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet – and to a lesser degree, ice loss in other parts of the globe – helped to shift the North Pole several centimeters east each year since 2005.
‘There was a big change,
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