Death and healthcare

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• It’s just a matter of where you locate the decay—in the killing, or in the response to it, or in what led us here. The only way to end up in a situation where a C.E.O. of a health-insurance company is reflexively viewed as a dictatorial purveyor of suffering is through a history of socially sanctioned death. The New Yorker
  
  
• During negotiations it’s always, “We’ve got to be competitive with the labor market over there.” But we think Mexico needs to be competitive with the U.S. by bringing workers there up to $35 an hour.  Labor Notes
  
  
• In this interview, conducted amidst a rapidly changing situation in Syria, Tempest asks Swiss Syrian socialist Joseph Daher about the process that led to the fall of Assad’s rule, the prospects for progressive forces, and the challenges they face in fighting for a truly liberated country that serves the interests of all its peoples and popular classes. The Tempest