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Happy Birthday Medicare!

Mark Dudzic Labor Campaign for Single Payer
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On July 30, Medicare turns 53. For over half a century, it has provided healthcare as a right to all Americans over 65 and many disabled Americans. It has saved countless lives and kept millions out of poverty.

20,000 Leagues Under the Seas

Barbara Vitello / Jonathan Abarbanel Daily Herald and Windy City Times
A new adaptation of "20,000 Leagues" features a Nemo who is far more conflicted, outraged and complex than in other portrayals. Ideas of justice, responsibility and morality are raised frequently, along with social roles one may be required to play.

Despite Progress, HIV Racial Divide Persists

Mackenzie Rigg & Jake Kara // CTMIRROR.org WNPR
The CDC projects that the risk for black men who have sex with men could grow to a staggering 50 percent, if trends continue. That compares with a risk of 1 in 11 for white gay and bisexual men, 1 in 20 for black men and 1 in 48 for black women.

Household Debt: How the Bottom Half Bolsters the Booming U.S. Economy

Jonathan Spicer Reuters
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The U.S. economy is booming. But the dramatic increase in jobs isn’t increasing wages and the growth in consumer spending has primarily been fueled by the bottom 60 percent of earners, who are exhausting their savings and piling up serious debt.

Global Left Saturday - July 28, 2018

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Pakistan's Marxist MP, SE Asians vs. RCEP, Polish Amazon Workers, Open Letter from Mideast Women, So Africa Workers Summit, Post-Election Turkey