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By Suneal Kolluri, University of California, Riverside / The Conversation On February 1, 2023– the first day of Black History Month – the College Board released the framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has criticized the pilot version of the African American studies course as lacking educational […]

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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

The post ‘We’re Still Gonna Say No’: Inside UnitedHealthcare’s Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient appeared first on scheerpost.com.

The Justice Department is calling graffiti on anti-abortion centers a threat to “reproductive health services facilities.”

The post Reproductive Rights Activists Charged Under Law Intended to Protect Abortion Clinics appeared first on The Intercept.

- by Jolyon Baraka Thomas

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While 2023 is bringing a lot of bad news for a lot of people around the world, it’s possible to imagine some potential upsides. We should, for example, begin to see house prices plateau as interest rates rise and bank lending contracts. In fact, most observers agree that house prices are going to fall throughout […]

Campanha nas redes sociais contra vacinas genéricas de covid-19 foi só uma parte do ataque das farmacêuticas para segurar as patentes – e atingir recorde de lucros.

The post Farmacêuticas pressionaram Twitter a censurar defensores das vacinas genéricas contra covid appeared first on The Intercept.

Retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William J. Astore who served in the nuclear missile command fears the end of human life through nuclear war is more likely than in the Cold War era.

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The U.S. empire has been surrounding China with military bases and war machinery for many years, in ways Washington would never tolerate China doing in the nations and waters surrounding the United States.

The post Caitlin Johnstone: US Surrounds China With War Machinery While Freaking Out About Balloons appeared first on scheerpost.com.

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Nice troll of the dumb ZH monetarists… 

Revolver people:

It is the empirical fact of apparently lucrative borrowing in one’s own currency over the last thirty years that underlies the Biden administration’s confident experiments in fiscal irresponsibility. If you talk to intelligent economists who endorse “Modern Monetary Theory,” you often find that it boils down to the above fact and does not contribute a single new insight that would justify the Biden administration’s recent fiscal choices. Nonetheless, unemployment is falling, real wages are only falling slowly, and the U.S. appears in no risk of a depreciation-driven debt crisis).

Sorry Zero Hedge, For Better or Worse the US Dollar Will Remain the King of Currencieshttps://t.co/zTB9HgqKPa