Michelle Keller is a retiree of District Council 37 and President of the New York City Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women AFLCIO. She joins us from New York City to discuss the outcome of a labor agreement which attempts to force New York City retirees to accept a privatized Medicare advantage program to access free care. Should this plan go forward, they would have to pay nearly $200 a month in order to secure traditional Medicare. The matter is now before the City Council which will vote on a proposal to change the City’s administrative code and allow this plan to go forward.
Readers challenged Glen Ford and Ann Garrison on the "white supremacist electoral bloc" in the US and genocide in Rwanda, respectively.
There is no doubt who won the midterm elections: the War Party, which for generations has been virtually unopposed in the US.
Julian Assange, a hero in the struggle against imperial wars and the lies that states tell to justify them, is in mortal danger.
Donald Trump is a racist boor, but the European leaders he snubbed are unreconstructed imperialists whose nations have enslaved and slaughtered tens of millions.
On any given day, 80,000 US prisoners are subjected to punishment that inflicts permanent damage to the brain.
