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Maya Schenwar | Why Health Care Isn't Just About Insurance

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Maya Schenwar | Why Health Care Isn't Just About Insurance

Maya Schenwar, Truthout: As Epilepsy Awareness Month winds down, let's take on the class-based obstacles to seizure management. Sleep, relaxation, nutritious food and time aren't covered by any insurance plan.

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Walmart Workers Will Make History on Friday as America Confronts Growing Inequality

Peter Dreier, Truthout: This year, the day after Thanksgiving will be remembered as the day Americans took action to demand that Walmart, the country's largest employer, pay workers livable wages and play a part in improving our economy.

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Tilting at Gas Wells: What's the Best Way to Defend Your Community From Fracking?

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New Satire Campaign Launches War Against Irrational Fear

Candice Bernd, Truthout: A new campaign inspired by Edward Snowden satirizes the "war on terror" and the surveillance state by highlighting statistics that show Americans are more likely to die from lightning strikes, dog attacks and playing football than domestic terrorism.

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Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance

Ellen Brown, Web of Debt: Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with genetically modified seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But if the Trans-Pacific Partnership passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of those corporations.

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Elena Shore, New America Media: LGBT inmates in immigration detention often are put in solitary confinement, ostensibly for their own protection from the general population of detainees. But Eddy Arias said he never felt that the other detainees posed a threat to his safety. Being in solitary, he said, just made him feel like he was going crazy.

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