Category: Fund the People, Not the Pentagon - Page 4

From Benign Neglect to Active Assault

March 3, 2025 Sandy Eaton

by Sandy Eaton Over many years we’ve witnessed our state government’s benign neglect of the health needs of our diverse working-class communities. The demise of Steward Health Care last year laid bare the unwillingness of the Healey-Driscoll-Walsh Administration to address the devastating effects of such […]

Millionaires, Medicaid, and the Military – The Key Fight!

February 12, 2025 Hoffmann the Organizer

by Hoffmann the Organizer I’ve been doing a chalk-talk/PPT on “The Three M’s – Everything You Need to Know About the Federal Budget” for many years. Facing the new Trump/Broligarchs Regime, it’s no longer what we need to know, it’s where we need to fight […]

The Deadliest Enemy may be on its Way

February 12, 2025 Jeanne Trubek

by Jeanne Trubek War kills people. We all know that. But most people don’t know that wars kill people in more ways than they have ever imagined, killing people who are far from the armed conflict. We know wars can and have killed millions, but […]

The New Geopolitics and The Normalization of Endless War

October 2, 2024 Tom Valovic

By Tom Valovic In John LeCarre’s novel, A Delicate Truth, we see the protagonist, an English civil servant, volunteering to take on an assignment for British intelligence. During his briefing, an intelligence officer makes the statement that “War has gone corporate”. Even as a novelist, […]

Steward Health: The Market Has Spoken

September 10, 2024 Sandy Eaton

By Sandy Eaton “The market has spoken”. This could be an appropriate epitaph for Steward Health Care’s fourteen years of lies, corruption and greed. It could also be the motto of the Healey-Driscoll-Walsh Administration, as well as of House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President […]

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Brockton Tackles Opioid Crisis through Mobile Unit

July 24, 2024 Silas Rutherford

by Silas Rutherford BIPOC medical and social workers are leading a project to expand accessible healthcare in Brockton, MA through a mobile clinic that serves historically marginalized groups disproportionately affected by the opioid crisis. This project, Community Care in Reach, was created to develop the […]

Tax Day: The America I wish my Taxes paid for

April 17, 2024 Patricia Hynes

by H. Patricia Hynes This article was originally published in Informed Comment. Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – In June 2023 Amanda Jones, an African American who had recently given birth to her second daughter Miranda, died from pregnancy-related causes. Her state, Georgia, ranks among […]