The violence of for-profit health care’s megastructure can only be overcome through collective resistance campaigns………… ..
… Massive Profits and CEO Pay UnitedHealth Group is a massively profitable corporation.
From 2021 to 2023 it took in nearly $1 trillion in revenue and nearly $60 billion in profits.
Last quarter it generated over $100 billion in revenue and $6 billion in profits. It ranks fourth on the Fortune 500 list of top U.S. companies…………..
…..UnitedHealth and other health insurance companies are part of a larger apparatus of corporate rule that must be combated through collective action focused on building the power needed to achieve systemic change.
To take on this megastructure, we will have to build our own counterstructures, like grassroots and labor single-payer campaigns, debtor organizations, trade unions and tenant groups, and engage in confrontational political efforts and general strike
It’s clear we are living in a period of rising anti-systemic feelings and widespread anger at corporate profiteering over every aspect of our lives, from health care to housing to work.
The time is ripe for building the collective organizations and capacities we need to challenge the structures that reward and enable corporate CEOs’ abuses.
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In the last days the fascist Turkish state is intensifiying it’s attacks on Rojava and especially on Kobanê. Erdogans goal is not just to gain territory, but to destroy our visions of socialism, women’s liberation and the unity of the people.
This is why Kobane is a strategical target for him. We must remember that Kobane is the symbol of the Women’s Revolution, and according to this we have to strengthen our struggle.
Let’s resist with the self-sacrificing and powerful spirit of Şehîd Arîn Mîrkan until victory!
In the canton of Minbic, a fragile ceasefire is in place following intense fighting between SDF & the Turkish-backed SNA. In the morning, fierce fighting broke out again around the Tischrin Dam. Turkish drones are also said to have been used in the fighting. Local sources report protests against the Turkish occupation & its militias in the city.
In recent days, there have been increasing reports of executions & looting in the regions where the SNA has taken control. Fighters have also repeatedly appeared with the flag of the so-called Islamic State.
An ambulance from the Kobanê hospital (Syrian Kurdistan) on the Sarrin-Tishreen Dam road has been shelled by the Turks, killing the driver and a passenger, and seriously injuring a nurse and another person.
At the same time, the self-administration (DAANES) strengthened its position for negotiations & a democratization of the whole of Syria. The self-administration announced that it would hoist the new flag of the Syrian Republic above all its institutions.
Meanwhile, transitional government was formed in Damascus by HTS, which is to remain in office until March.
📢 A Democratic solution for Syria – Defend the Self-Administration: Action-Day, Saturday Dec. 14
If the democratic solution is to stand a chance in this historic phase, we must defend the self-administration in Northeast Syria, the revolution in Rojava and stop Turkey and its mercenaries.
That is why we are calling for a central day of action in solidarity with the autonomous administration and the peoples of Syria next Saturday, December 14.
There are many ways to defend the revolution! Protest against the institutions of the Turkish state and their Western partners. Inform yourself and get creative, protest and take to the streets!
As the country struggles to emerge from the darkness and brutality of the Assad regime many groups are vying for position in this new reality – and it is in that space that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is trying to gather strength.
One of the most important figures in this region is General Abdi Mazloum, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
He is warning the West that ISIS is already trying to exploit the turmoil.
General Mazloum says the clashes with Turkish-backed groups are making it more difficult to concentrate on stopping ISIS from regenerating.
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“At the moment, joint operations against ISIS are halted. This is not a decision but rather a military reality, as the coalition is also preoccupied with the ongoing conflict. Therefore, I stress that if these attacks persist, joint operations will remain suspended,” he says.
He also warns that it’s possible that ISIS prisoners kept in detention camps and prisons could escape in the chaos.
Luigi Mangione accused of killing healthcare mafia boss … Alleged shooter of US healthcare CEO caught
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has warned US healthcare executives of an increased risk to their lives, after ‘wanted’ posters featuring corporate bosses appeared across the city and online, following this week’s shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
‘There is a constant stream of new reporting on novel tactics by insurance plans to deny patients coverage. They’re even using AI to do it. UnitedHealthcare has been the subject of recent ProPublica exposés for, among other examples, the company’s use of algorithms to deny claims for mental health services….’
Following the shooting outside a Hilton hotel in central Manhattan by a masked, hooded attacker, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was arrested as a suspect. He appeared in a Pennsylvania court on Tuesday and was charged with second-degree murder.
The deep roots of Americans’ hatred of their health care …Voxhttps://www.vox.com › future-perfect › united-healthca…— Today, as everyone knows, health care in the US can be prohibitively expensive even for people who have insurance. Almost four in 10 Americans …Most European countries, for example, have free or heavily subsidized healthcare and medicines financed by social security. However, despite support for Public Health systems a long campaign of US and corporate pressure is causing heavy cuts, defunding them and promoting inferior private medical careand insurance.
The NYPD bulletin obtained by ABC News highlighted viral posts featuring the names and salaries of several other health insurance CEOs.
The USA has Stupendous Wealth. Able to borrow any amount on its GLOBAL HEGEMONY SCAM. And Lavishing over $$ 1,000,000,000,000 pa. on its War Machine. Yet even here Greedy Capitalists make it Impossible to Pay the Rent
I have zero respect for wealthy people who don’t use at least a substantial portion of their wealth to help those less fortunate. Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, tops the list of such people.
Needless to say, my hackles were raised when I heard him claim that homelessness doesn’t exist, that it is a that it is a “lie” and “propaganda”.
Musk has what I call “ivory tower wealth” … he lives so high above the rest of us that he is literally blind to the way we live. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr …
I say let’s force Mr. Musk to live on the streets without access to his vast wealth for about 3 months!!![…]
Judd Legum over at Popular Information sets the record straight for Mr. Musk …
5 facts Elon Musk should learn about homelessness
By Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims
11 December 2024
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been appointed by President-elect Donald Trump as the co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Despite its name, DOGE is not a department or part of the federal government. But it appears that Trump will look to Musk and DOGE to determine what government programs are essential and what should be eliminated as unnecessary.
So it is notable that, on Tuesday, Musk posted on X that homelessness is a “lie” and a “propaganda word.” He suggested that most unhoused people are “violent drug addicts” who cannot be helped.
Turkey is taking advantage of the power vacuum in Syria to carry out the extermination of the population, Arab or Kurdish, in the north of the state. Groups funded and trained by Turkey and the Turkish army itself (the second largest in NATO) are acting with total impunity
Worse than ISIS.. but okayed by West .
US again betrays its Rojava allies. Manbij was freed from ISIS with aid from US/Coalition Air Cover – now the US stands idly by and watches similar Jihadi hatchetmen, enabled by Turkish/NATO air power, butchering prisoners and hospital patients… looting and destroying a unique multi-ethnic social experiment… Even letting their Israeli proxy bomb Qamishlo
SNA mercenaries Cheer and Execute civilians in the streets of Manbij.. videos.. 10/12/24 – Afusellaments als carrers
The images that appear seem to be just the tip of an iceberg of bloodthirsty hatred by the Turks. Here are some examples:
The self-proclaimed Syrian National Army (SNA) is a group of Turkish financed Islamist factions including the jihadists of Ahrar al-Sham. Without engaging in combat with the Assad regime, these groups have as their main, if not sole, objective the extermination of the indigenous Kurdish minority of northern Syria.
They have done so in the Afrin canton since 2018. Since November 27, they bypassed the SAA positions and headed towards the refugee camps (expelled by them from Afrin in 2018) of Shebha and Tell Rifaat and expelled some 200,000 people, mostly Kurds, killing an unknown number and trapping thousands of others who are still unaccounted for.
In the Manbij region, terrible murders are being recorded, and there are also looting, kidnappings and disappearances of people, executed in cold blood.
The main front for Erdogan’s puppets is the city of Manbij, with a majority Arab population, which is defended by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to the west of the Euphrates River.
On December 3, they launched a first attack and on December 6 at night, which has continued until now. The SDF managed to stop this second attack and there are numerous, undetermined, casualties on both sides.i
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The #Turkish occupation army committed a massacre against children and women by airstrikes by their warplanes on the city of Ain Issa in #Raqqa Governorate, northeastern #Syria, which led to the killing of 12 people, all of whom were women and children.
We must defend the self-administration in Northeast Syria, the revolution in Rojava and stop Turkey and its mercenaries.
There are many ways to defend the revolution! Protest against the institutions of the Turkish state and their Western partners. Inform yourself and get creative, protest and take to the streets!
Together we defend the Revolution of hope – together we defend Rojava! For peace and freedom in the Middle East!
Turkey is taking advantage of the power vacuum in Syria to carry out the extermination of the population, Arab or Kurdish, in the north of the state. Groups funded and trained by Turkey and the Turkish army itself (the second largest in NATO) are acting with total impunity
Worse than ISIS.. but west applauds and US looks away
The images that appear seem to be just the tip of an iceberg of bloodthirsty hatred by the Turks. Here are some examples:
The self-proclaimed Syrian National Army (SNA) is a group of Turkish financed Islamist factions including the jihadists of Ahrar al-Sham. Without engaging in combat with the Assad regime, these groups have as their main, if not sole, objective the extermination of the indigenous Kurdish minority of northern Syria.
They have done so in the Afrin canton since 2018. Since November 27, they bypassed the SAA positions and headed towards the refugee camps (expelled by them from Afrin in 2018) of Shebha and Tell Rifaat and expelled some 200,000 people, mostly Kurds, killing an unknown number and trapping thousands of others who are still unaccounted for.
In the Manbij region, terrible murders are being recorded, and there are also looting, kidnappings and disappearances of people, executed in cold blood.
The main front for Erdogan’s puppets is the city of Manbij, with a majority Arab population, which is defended by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to the west of the Euphrates River.
On December 3, they launched a first attack and on December 6 at night, which has continued until now. The SDF managed to stop this second attack and there are numerous, undetermined, casualties on both sides.
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The #Turkish occupation army committed a massacre against children and women by airstrikes by their warplanes on the city of Ain Issa in #Raqqa Governorate, northeastern #Syria, which led to the killing of 12 people, all of whom were women and children.
By Marion Rae, December 9 2024 – https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/8841115/renewable-energy-trounces-nuclear-on-generation-costs/ Power planners have found nuclear energy does not stack up for Australia even after considering new parameters, with large-scale solar and big batteries still the lowest-cost option. In an official update released on Monday, as the federal opposition prepares to release its costings, scientists warn taxpayers will need deep […]
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