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Health Care, Essential to Democracy
by Katie Robbins and Andy Coates Two weekends ago, after the bait and switch of a vote on single-payer for a vote on an anti-abortion ...
The Independence of the Fed at Risk: Watt versus Paul-Grayson
Representative Mel Watt (D-NC) is out to protect the independence of the Fed from the risk of an intrusive audit from the Government Accountability Office ...
Dickens Revisited, Circa 2009, Healthcare USA
Some Americans will schlep into a local theater to check out Disney’s latest 3-D version of “A Christmas Carol.” They’ll gather up the kids and ...
Hostage-Takers in the Senate
As most of us are preparing for the holidays a small clique in the Senate, with their collaborators in the Washington punditry, are planning for ...
Veterans: Lip Service, Bankers: Billions & America: Foreclosures - Here’s The Fix
One thing about doing a two hour show that heavily covers both the financial crisis and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is that you ...
I'll Bet the 10.2 Percent Can’t Keep What They’ve Got
Hey There, Congress and Mr. President. It’s your citizens. Lots of us are losing jobs and benefits. We cannot keep the benefits we’ve got when ...
After McCloud, Nestle Gets a Thumpin' in Maine
Another community says NO to Nestle! Activists in the communities which surround the Branch Brook Aquifer, located in the southern part of the state handily ...
Yes, That Was Me Visiting the White House
I guess I should come clean and admit it.I've been hangin' out with the Obamas at the White House. Late on Friday, Norm Eisen, special ...
Animal House Rules: Treasury Proposes to Use DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION
You can never compete with self-parody, and Treasury and the Fed have mastered the art. The proposed legislation to respond to systemically dangerous institutions (SDIs) ...
Nataline Keeps Bending the Arc of Healthcare Justice
"Someday, my story will be your story," Gregor Sarkisyan, father of the late Nataline Sarkisyan, 17, who died December 20, 2007, as CIGNA denied her ...
Single Payer State Option Threatened in House
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces the healthcare bill she plans to bring to the floor Thursday, will it still have the amendment that allows ...
TARP-Loving Joe Loves Bailing Out Banks but Not Providing Healthcare
Are we to believe Senator Joe Lieberman objects to a public health insurance plan because he's a raging believer in the free market or in ...
After the Showdown
Over 5,000 people greeted the American Bankers Association today outside their fancy Magnificent Mile hotel in downtown Chicago. People took to the streets to voice ...
No One Else Will Stop the Killing
In a statement today directed to the U.S. House of Representatives, President Obama and its membership, Veterans For Peace urged its chapters to demonstrate opposition ...
Why Isn't 122 Dead Americans Every Day a National Health Emergency?
Why does H1N1 call for a Presidential designation as a national emergency while the preventable deaths of 45,000 Americans every year (122 every day) is ...
The American Bankers Association's 15 Minutes of Fame in Chicago
Like termites, the American Bankers Association (ABA) does most of its damage in the dark. But, the ABA is getting a brief period in the ...
Single Payer Comes to Vote – Action Needed!
If you’re like me, you are currently hoping that Democratic leadership will take the thousand-plus page health care bills in the House and Senate, wad ...
Enough is Enough
Yesterday afternoon, more than 1,000 people from 20 states came by bus, train, and plane to the Showdown in Chicago to deliver the message “Enough ...
Weiner’s Amendment Breathes 45,000 Lives into H.R. 3200
Wow. Things are getting pretty tense out in the trenches where we’ve all seen Wall Street bailouts and bulging unemployment while Congress inches forward on ...
The $200,000 Insult: Come to Chicago
Kenneth Feinberg, President Obama's compensation czar for bailed out banks, appears to have taken some genuine steps to rein in excessive executive compensation at the ...
Greed Claims Another American Mother and Child. Had Enough?
Jenny Fritts was 24 years old. Jenny lived with her husband Sean for the past five years, and together they had a little girl named ...
Take America Back from the Banks
The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the ...
Two Things You Can Do This Month to Break Your Abusive Relationship with Capitalism
Capitalism is fundamentally undemocratic and un-American. Yep, Michael Moore said it -- out loud and in a movie!When you go see Capitalism: A Love Story ...
Capitalism: An Apathy Story
This Thursday, in a move that would make Baron von Louis Rothschild blush with shame (or burst with pride), Goldman Sachs will announce that it ...
Finance's Five Fatal Flaws
1. The financial sector harms the real economy.The financial sector, even when it is not in crisis, harms the real economy. First, it is vastly ...
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