2021-04-14: News Headlines

Sara Roos (2021-04-14). Only way to go: Single-payer healthcare gave me back my life. peoplesworld.org I have personal experience with single-payer health care, directly contrasting treatment for the same medical diagnosis under the U.S. for-profit private insurance formula with Canada's single-payer paradigm. It happened in the late-oughts after decades of targeted barbs in the media about Canada's healthcare system. In retrospect, studies found this narrative of long "wait times," medical …

Abayomi Azikiwe (2021-04-14). Militarize the Southern Border: Joe Biden Strikes Deal with Mexico and Central American States to Curb Migration. globalresearch.ca A crisis of migration into the United States from Mexico, Guatemala …

Phyllis Bennis (2021-04-13). This isn't a Border Crisis, It's a Poverty, Violence and Climate Crisis. counterpunch.org Thousands of desperate migrants, mostly from Central America, are stuck at the U.S.-Mexico border. Most are families and unaccompanied children. Despite their legal rights to apply for asylum, U.S. officials are turning away huge numbers, claiming pandemic restrictions. But thousands of children remain, held in crowded border detention facilities while awaiting transfer to Department of

teleSUR (2021-04-13). Nicaragua to Debate Reforms to Its Electoral Law. telesurenglish.net Lawmakers of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) on Monday proposed reforms on the electoral law ahead of Nicaragua's elections on Nov. 7. | RELATED: | Some of the reforms are aimed at banning direct or indirect financing from abroad to any political party or alliance. | Besides creating a procedure for assigning ballots to new parties, the Sandinista initiative calls for gender equality as political format…

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