Single-Payer in California Will Save Billions

Patrick McGreevy Los Angeles Times
A legislative analysis had estimated the cost of the proposed system to be $400 billion annually, but a study released by the nurses Wednesday estimates the yearly cost would be $331 billion as of 2017. The estimate was made by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in a study partly financed by the nurses association.

Paris Is Burning

James P Hare Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Trump's waffling, then, was not between a pro-climate agenda and an anti-climate one. Rather, the indecision was on the level of strategy on how best to dismantle environmental regulations.

Whole Foods and the Failure of “Conscious Capitalism”

Nicole Aschoff The Guardian
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, the guru of “conscious capitalism,” has long argued the Whole Foods supermarket chain runs on a business model of creativity and innovation that outsmarts the competitive pressures of capitalism’s for-profit system . But, there is no “fix” to the corporate compulsion to produce more, more cheaply, for more profit. It’s written into capitalism’s DNA. And today the chain is floundering and a potential buyout is on the horizon.

Friday Nite Videos | June 2, 2017

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Anderson Cooper Reads Best 'covfefe' Tweets. Donald Trump vs Global Warming | Music Video. Macron Explains Paris Accord. Elián | Documentary. Trump Tells Earth to Go F**k Itself.

Macron Explains Paris Accord

French President Macron slams President Trump for withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord. It's not renegotiable. 

Elián | Documentary

The remarkable story about Elián González, a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida coast in 1999, and how the fight over his future sparked a flashpoint for simmering US and Cuban tensions. Review.

Trump Tells Earth to Go F**k Itself

President Trump withdraws from the Paris climate accord, making the U.S. one of three nations on earth to not participate in the deal.