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Joe Scarborough sees the light on single-payer
Joe Scarborough Is Shocked (Yet Awed) by Sheer Force of Single-Payer Logic By Leslie Savan, TheNation.com Posted on August 20, 2009, Printed on August 22, 2009 Something rather remarkable happened on Tuesday’s Morning Joe. Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York pointed out that the health insurance industry has no clothes, and Joe Scarborough, after
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Lt. Calley apologizes for My Lai
William Calley apologizes for My Lai massacre By Dick McMichael – Special to the Ledger-Enquirer William Calley, the former Army lieutenant convicted on 22 counts of murder in the infamous My Lai Massacre in Vietnam, publicly apologized for the first time this week while speaking in Columbus. “There
Flu research website launched
Flu research website launched San Francisco -The Public Library of Science (PLoS), a US non-profit, launched a website on Thursday designed for health researchers to quickly share discoveries or ideas about battling influenza. A test version of PLoS Currents: Influenza website went live with help from
The Christianist takeover of the DoJ
The takeover described below is but one aspect of the Bush Republicans’ subversion of American democracy–that is to say, US elections, which, since 2000, have been largely rigged by Christianist outfits and/or activists like Premier/Diebold and ES&S; Mike Connell’s GovTech Solutions
Obama’s double standard
This is actually the double standard not just of our president, but of the Democratic Party, which has for quite some time put down its own left wing while sucking up to the Republicans. MCM The Obama Double Standard David Sirota Huffington Post 8/22/09 As the White House continues to move toward dropping
Petition to Whole Foods CEO John Mackey
Dear friends and colleagues, In light of Whole Food’s Market CEO John Mackey’s latest attack on health care reform, we are circulating an open letter to Whole Food’s Board of Directors, urging to promote
Take the profit motive out of news
This great piece by my colleague, Victor Pickard, came out while I was on vacation, so I didn’t have a chance to send it on. The time has come for sweeping media reform–a sine qua non (along with election reform and campaign finance reform) for the salvation of American democracy. As Victor
NO “underlying medical condition” in 40% of swine flu hospitalizations
“….46 per cent of those hospitalized so far with human swine flu had no underlying medical condition” WHO issues caution over monitoring swine-flu cases BY SHARON KIRKEY, CANWEST NEWS SERVICEAUGUST 21, 2009 2:02 PM The World Health Organization is warning that underlying health problems
The far-right players behind those “town hall protests”
Town Hall Protests: Astroturf 2.0? A Who’s Who of the corporate-organized fight against healthcare reform. Healthcare Astroturf 2009 By Ben Buchwalter and Nikki Gloudeman This summer, town hall meetings to discuss health care reform have turned into battlegrounds — with fist fights, belligerent
“What the Agency was doing with Blackwater scares the hell out of me”
Former CIA Agent: “What the Agency Was Doing With Blackwater Scares the Hell Out of Me” By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation Posted on August 20, 2009, Printed on August 21, 2009 In April 2002, the CIA paid Blackwater more than $5 million to deploy a small team of men inside Afghanistan during