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16,000 New York Nurses To Strike Over Pay, Staffing, And Benefits

January 9, 2026 Al Mayadeen. , , , ,
Nearly 16,000 nurses in New York City are preparing to go on strike on Monday as contract negotiations with several major hospital systems stall over pay, staffing levels, and healthcare benefits, according to the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). The planned strike is set to affect five large hospitals across the city and comes after nurses issued 10-day strike notices on January 2. NYSNA says the action is aimed at pressuring hospital management to prioritize patient care over profits, amid what it describes as growing concerns over safe staffing ratios, workplace safety, and benefit protections.

Lawyer Who Represented Julian Assange Defends President Maduro

January 7, 2026 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
Renowned criminal lawyer Barry Pollack, who defended journalist Julian Assange, has taken on the defense of Venezuela’s constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro, in New York. Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores were kidnapped and taken there following the US attack in the early hours of Jan. 3, when military forces under orders from the White House carried out bombings against Caracas and several states, killing dozens of civilians and military personnel. Amid their illegitimate detention, President Maduro and Cilia Flores were taken this Monday to the Southern District Court of New York to begin a trial for alleged links to drug trafficking.

Too Big To Heal

December 28, 2025 Helen Santoro and Joel Warner, Portside. , , ,
America’s health care spending is so out of control that the country’s economy is becoming dependent on it. According to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce, economic growth swelled in the third quarter of 2025. While that’s theoretically good news, an ever-larger share of that consumer spending is devoted to health care costs: Over the previous three months, expenditures on health care increased more than on any other goods or services. Health care spending, in fact, contributed more to the country’s gross domestic product growth than any other personal expenses.

China Changes Everything: A Book Review

December 22, 2025 Steve Lalla, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
A new book edited by Kyle Ferrana, China Changes Everything, bills itself as an anthology by “social justice activists, journalists, and commentators” and brings together chapters about the People’s Republic of China written by prominent left-wing analysts, including Arnold August, Roger Harris, Radhika Desai, Carlos Martinez, Gerald Horne, Lee Siu Hin, Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, KJ Noh, Sara Flounders, and many more. The publication covers a comprehensive range of subjects in the ongoing “China debate” and includes chapters on such hot topics as China’s relation to Palestine and China’s foreign affairs policies, its banking and healthcare system, its transportation infrastructure and the rail and air infrastructure that China has helped to build in developing nations, its achievements in green technology and poverty alleviation, China’s military expenditures and aims, its role in the “space race,” its alleged genocide of the Uyghurs, and the status of Taiwan and Tibet, among others.

Rural County Takes Notes From Iceland’s Drug Prevention Model

December 22, 2025 Anabel Peterman, Next City. , , , , ,
While serving a three-year prison sentence for meth trafficking, Matewood Gerald got the call that she’d soon be a grandmother. Gerald started abusing drugs when she was just 13, and she says everyone in her small town of Irvine, Kentucky, has seen her at her worst. But she had to become the best version of herself for her granddaughter. “​​I would lay there and think, is she gonna like me? Am I going to be perfect whenever I get out?” Gerald recalls. Less than five years later, she is a peer support specialist with Mercy Health Marcum and Wallace Hospital in rural Irvine.

Doctors In England Strike For Jobs And Pay

December 20, 2025 People's Health Dispatch. , , ,
Resident doctors – formerly known as junior doctors, a term referring to qualified physicians undergoing clinical training – in England are on strike again from December 17 to 22, after the Labour government failed to adequately address concerns over pay and job availability. “Resident doctors need jobs, and when they find those jobs, they need to be paid fairly for them,” the British Medical Association (BMA), which represents tens of thousands of physicians, said in outlining the strike demands. The dispute over resident doctors’ pay restoration has been ongoing for years.

Physicians And Chicano Community Demand ICE Out Of Hospitals

December 20, 2025 Marisol Marquez, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Los Angeles, CA – In early October, whistleblowers at White Memorial, a Boyle Heights Adventist hospital, leaked invaluable information. The whistleblowers stated that ICE agents were taking detainees from an inadequate ICE facility named “B-18” located within the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, to the Chicano neighborhood hospital. Within the confines of White Memorial, in the emergency department, agents were terrorizing detainee patients. – with permission from hospital CEOs and directors.

Kenya’s President Attempts To Close Budget Gap By Selling Health Data

December 19, 2025 Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
Nairobi — It is hardly uncommon to hear Kenyans complain that their President, William Ruto, is not a head of state so much as a comprador auctioneer of the state’s assets to foreign capitalists. But if one transaction represents Kenyans’ tipping point it is the government’s agreement to effectively sell their private medical records—including biological samples and genetic data—to the Trump administration in exchange for $1.6 billion in healthcare funding over a seven-year-period. 

Another Mass Staffing Purge At The VA

December 19, 2025 Suzanne Gordon and Russell Lemle, Substack. , , ,
In late November, a mental health leader at a major VA medical center learned about a directive issued to the 18 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) regional offices, known as VISNs (Veterans Integrated Service Networks). Department of Veterans Affairs’ leaders in Washington were imposing lower caps on employee positions nationwide. Directors of local VA medical centers and clinics had a month to decide which vacant positions to eliminate, and which job offers to rescind. None of these identified positions would be filled because they would be swept from organizational charts entirely.

Congress’s Cuts To Medicaid Could Devastate Rural Hospitals

December 15, 2025 Michael Chameides, Counter Punch. , , ,
When Dr. Ed Paul visits Nogales, Arizona, he sees well-trained, hardworking doctors and nurses. Yet as in many smaller towns and rural communities, its health care staffing, infrastructure, and funding doesn’t meet the needs of residents. People who need health care have a tough time accessing it — and the people delivering it feel overburdened. With limited providers, Dr. Paul notes, it’s hard to get an appointment, so patients either wait, travel long distances, or simply go without. As the Policy Director for the Rural Democracy Initiative, I support groups across the country who are working to ensure rural Americans have access to quality, affordable health care.

Historic 12-Day March For Mumia Ends At SCI Mahanoy

December 12, 2025 Betsey Piette, Workers' World. , , , , ,
Around 150 participants filled both sides of the entrance road to State Correctional Institution (SCI) Mahanoy for a rally on Dec. 9 – the final day of the historic March for Mumia. The march demanded “Justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal, End Medical Neglect [in Pennsylvania prisons] and End Elder Abuse.” The 12-day, 103-mile march started in Philadelphia on Nov. 28 and ended in Frackville, Pennsylvania, with over 65 people walking the last three miles. A long-time supporter of Mumia, Pam Africa, with International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, reminded people that Mumia was a journalist, a teacher, and a family man, who was railroaded and never had a fair trial. She urged people to keep on fighting for justice for Mumia.

Wave Of Tax Cuts Left States Vulnerable To SNAP And Medicaid Crisis

December 12, 2025 Eli Hager, ProPublica. , , , , ,
This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry. With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks and President Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program, a panic set in among the more than 40 million people who rely on it. Families skipped meals, and babies went unfed. Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to dumpster diving. It was just a glimpse of what’s to come. Starting next October, Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in SNAP costs from the federal government onto states.

CHOP Defends Rights Of Transgender Patients

December 11, 2025 Marie Kelly, Workers' World. , , , , ,
A federal court in Philadelphia ruled in favor of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia blocking the Trump administration’s demand for the renowned hospital’s Gender and Sexuality Development Program to turn over confidential information about clinic patients. CHOP runs one of the largest clinics in the U.S. which provides medical care and mental health support for transgender and gender-nonbinary children and teens and their families. Each year since 2014, hundreds of new families seek care through the program.

Billionaires Are Buying Your Hospitals

December 7, 2025 Ed Pomfret, Inequality.org. , , ,
South African billionaire Johann Rupert has enjoyed a sudden surge in wealth. His expanding fortune, like those of billionaires around the world, is not a sign of brilliance or achievement. It is a symptom of a system built to funnel wealth upward into the hands of the 1%. Rupert’s net worth jumps from $13.7 billion to $19.1 billion in under a year, powered by sales of high-end jewelry through Richemont, the luxury goods holding company he founded. With his exploding profits he invests in hospital networks, viewing them simply as financial assets, not the essential services the rest of us — the 99% — need and have the right to. The headlines call it “performance,” but anyone living outside the 1% knows it is extraction.

Study: Gender-Affirming Care Lowers Suicide Risk For Trans Kids

November 28, 2025 Chris Walker, Truthout. , , ,
A newly published study reveals that a certain kind of gender-affirming care for transgender kids and young adults likely lowers rates of suicidality among those populations. The study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, examined 432 patients between the ages of 12 and 20 years old who received treatment at an unnamed Midwestern academic medical center. Patients who were set to receive gender-affirming care filled out Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) surveys prior to receiving hormone therapy (HT) treatment, then repeated the questionnaire at future visits.
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