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Private equity and our healthcare. The meeting of doctors started with a prayer and ended with them being fired.
In a few months I will turn 76. Healthcare, health insurance, Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, privatization and healthcare access all consume…
22 hrs ago
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Fred Klonsky
"Six presumed dead.'' The men on the Key Bridge.
Woody Guthrie’s words keep coming back to me this morning. But we died in your hills, we died in your valleys. We died in your orchards, we died on your…
Mar 27
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Fred Klonsky
The United Nations ceasefire resolution.
On Monday the United Nations security council passed a ceasefire resolution. It was the third one that passed the security council. The previous two…
Mar 26
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Fred Klonsky
Tuesday's Illinois primary showed no enthusiasm for Biden. Or Trump.
They’re still counting the mail-in votes from Tuesday’s Illinois primary. It does not appear that the final count will change the fundamental fact that…
Mar 24
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Fred Klonsky
The pro-Israel lobby AIPAC spent big in the Illinois primary and got some wins.
The pro-Israel American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC) spent a big chunk of change in the Illinois primary last week and won a couple of…
Mar 23
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Fred Klonsky
The U.S. ceasefire resolution in the U.N. that didn't call for a ceasefire.
Between the actions of primary voters writing in the word Gaza or voting uncommitted and the street protests of tens of thousands demanding a ceasefire…
Mar 23
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Fred Klonsky
The Illinois primary Biden protest vote.
The "Uncommitted" movement rolls into the Land of Lincoln.
Mar 21
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Fred Klonsky
Illinois primary. Voters were not interested.
Lowest turnout in 80 years.
Mar 20
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Fred Klonsky
The anti-Semite-in-chief.
Disloyalty to Israel does not make anyone a self-hating Jew.
Mar 19
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Fred Klonsky
Our "welcoming city" bungles its migrant and measles crises.
As a Chicagoan it was a day I will always be proud of: January 28, 2017. Trump had just issued his Muslim travel ban. Thousands of us, hearing it on the…
Mar 18
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Fred Klonsky
The Democratic convention is coming to Chicago and Palestine looms large.
Will the convention be an echo of 1968 when a police riot had the whole world watching?
Mar 14
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Fred Klonsky
Mayor Johnson: Stop the evictions of migrant families.
Chicago’s status as a sanctuary city goes back to the administration of our greatest mayor, Harold Washington. Every administration that followed Harold…
Mar 13
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Fred Klonsky
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