Wednesday, March 10, 2010
There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from [...]
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
In the same sentence, [...]
Kavita Ramdas and Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls discuss the militarization of society and how it hurts everyone, but especially women. - GRITtv with Laura Flanders
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Health Care in America: Barack Obama Pwns -(X)- March 08, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Anthony Weiner [D-NY] sounds off about the Republicans’ lack of bipartisanship on health care reform.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Last week, CNN released a poll showing that 86 percent of Americans believe the U.S. government is “broken.” I admit my first reaction was to wonder subversively, “How would they know?” A contemporaneous Pew survey of the public’s “political news IQ” showed that on one of the most heavily reported issues of 2009-10, only 32 [...]
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
So what’s happening here? How come Republicans who can’t imagine spending money on health care reform are more than willing to spend it on job creation?
The answer is that, for all GOP talk about how Washington has to stop spending, for all the talk about how there is no money to do anything, for all [...]
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Women Have A Right to Body Sovereignty
Women, half of all adult patients, are not a special interest group. Abortion is a medical procedure, just as a vasectomy, a mastectomy, etc. are. It is the woman’s life and choice, and it is a decision between her and her doctor. That is an individual freedom defined and [...]
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
FDR said it and it holds 66 years later: There are benefits and opportunities every American should expect to enjoy.
Let’s contrast ideal versions of the two approaches. In the ideal America of economic citizenship, there would be a single, universal, integrated, lifelong system of economic security including single-payer healthcare, Social Security, unemployment payments and family leave paid [...]
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As health care reform nears the finish line, there is much wailing and rending of garments among conservatives. And I’m not just talking about the tea partiers. Even calmer conservatives have been issuing dire warnings that Obamacare will turn America into a European-style social democracy. And everyone knows that Europe has lost all its economic [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Every American should be asking the same questions: Why are we paying these people?
I have a confession to make. I have been suffering from painful flashbacks lately. Memories of the 1970s force themselves, unbidden, into my mind. Memories of the high school assembly where we students were handed WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons.
Grownups who were [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
Speculation about Lieberman’s motives has focused on his connections to the insurance industry in Connecticut, home to 72 insurance companies with more than 65,000 employees, the highest concentration of insurance industry jobs in the U.S., and an annual payroll of more than $6 billion in 2007, according to report by Janet Kaminski, an attorney with [...]
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Here is a graphic representation of the choice lawmakers face:
via Wonk Room » Reasons Not To Kill The Senate Bill.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Bashir Ahmedzai was a surgeon from Kabul who landed a job working as an interpreter at a U.S. military hospital in 2004. After his foot was injured in a vehicle explosion in 2007, he fled to the U.S., where he eventually found work as ”housekeeper” at a military hospital in Texas.
“I speak six languages and [...]
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Under orders from the White House, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid deleted the public plan and Medicare buy-in from the healthcare bill. This move has angered liberals, who rightfully point out that Obama is betraying promises from his own very recent presidential campaign. Howard Dean, a medical doctor and former head of the Democratic National [...]
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