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My friend Conan died at the corner of poverty and for-profit healthcare. Now is the time to support single-payer.
Californians: back Healthy California. US Citizens: back Medicare for All. UK Citizens: support the NHS. My friend Conan Soranno died on 24 August. He was 39 years old, a gifted photographer, technologist, motorcycle aficionado, and self-described ‘mad scientist’. He was brave and strong and smart. He died two days after being forced to choose between…
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What just happened? Lessons from a ‘free’ Iraq. or: Just what do you think we did, anyway?
After seven years of constipation, Sir John Chilcot finally released his report into the Iraq war1. We have officially been told what a lot of people expected all along: the Iraq war wasn’t necessary, was probably illegal, definitely poorly planned, had no post-war plan, and did not achieve the goal of a stable democratic Iraq.…