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- "Move Your Money", Take the pledge to move your money. (Arianna Huffington and Rob Johnson, Huffington Post, 12/29/09)
- Wall St. Sends Cash to GOP, The industry's campaign to thwart Obama's proposals for tighter financial regulations. (New York Times, 02/08/10)
- "Just Gimme Some Truth", The layers of the American political pathology are so deep. (David Michael Green, Common Dreams, 02/07/10)
- Violence Against Women is a Global Struggle, The International Violence Against Women Act was introduced this week. (Boston Globe, 02/06/10)
- "The Lynch Mob Mentality", The authoritarian mentality is stronger than ever now. (Glenn Greenwald, Salon, 02/05/10)
- US Banks, Lobbyists Abetting Corrupt Regimes, US banks, lawyers, real estate and escrow agents hide the origins of funds belonging to foreign government officials. (Inter Press Service, 02/04/10)
- Breaking Up Banks is Crucial Element, Consumer groups urge Congress to break up the biggest banks. (Raw Story, 02/03/10)
- "Single Payer Solution for Obama", A better approach to health care reform. (MN Senator John Marty, Common Dreams, 02/02/10)
- CIA Operatives Moonlight in Corporate World, Financial firms and hedge funds have access to the nation's top-level intelligence talent. (Politico, 02/01/10)
- Leaks Imperil Nuclear Industry, Vermont Yankee among troubled. (Boston Globe, 01/31/10)
- US Suspends Haitian Airlift in Cost Dispute, The United States suspends its medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian earthquake victims until a dispute over who will pay for their care is settled. (New York Times, 01/30/10)
- "This Corruption in Washington is Smothering America's Future", How do you regulate banks effectively, if the Senate is owned by Wall Street? (Johann Hari, Independent, 01/29/10)
- California Senate Passes Medicare for All Legislation, New energy for healthcare reform after national bills stall. (Common Dreams, 01/28/10)
- North America's Long Winter of Discontent, Larceny and greed have brought a jobs crisis. (Inter Press Service, 01/27/10)
- US Households Struggle to Afford Food, Nearly one in five US households ran out of money to buy enough food at least once during 2009. (Reuters, 01/26/10)
- "Haiti is Bleeding ...", So too is Afghanistan, Iraq and the Arizona desert. (Roberto Rodriguez, Common Dreams, 01/25/10)
- "Occupation in Humanitarian Clothing", Our government only knows how to occupy when it comes to international affairs. (Jesse Hagopian, Common Dreams, 01/24/10)
- "They Still Don't Get It", The nation is suffering through the worst economy since the Depression. (Bob Herbert, New York Times, 01/23/10)
- "Revisiting The Shock Doctrine", Revisiting The Shock Doctrine in the wake of the Haiti disaster. (Naomi Klein, Common Dreams, 01/22/10)
- "Whose Rights? Challenging Corporate Power", A new Supreme Court decision promotes corporate rights at the expense of the rights of citizens. (Thomas Linzey and Mari Margil, Yes! Magazine, 01/21/10)
- "Whistleblower Reveals How Health Insurers Can Game New Insurance Bill", Senate bill still allows insurance companies to create 'pre-existing' categories to raise rates. (Brad Jacobson, Raw Story, 01/20/10)
- "Profiting from Haiti's Crisis", Disaster capitalism in Washington's backyard. (Benjamin Dangl, Toward Freedom, 01/19/10)
- "Fear as a Money Machine", A country programmatically gripped by fear. (Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch, 01/18/10)
- "Why the US Owes Haiti Billions", The briefest history. (Bill Quigley, Common Dreams, 01/17/10)
- "The Financial Black Box", What's still hidden in AIG's files? (Ben Protess, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, 01/16/10)
- Arctic Permafrost Leaking Methane, Arctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels. (Guardian, 01/15/10)
- "The United States, Israel and the Retreat of Freedom", The world is suffering from a 'freedom recession'. (Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 01/14/10)
- Seeking a Cultural Revolution, From consumerism to sustainability. (Inter Press Service, 01/13/10)
- "Administration Bank Tax Plan", An empty populist gesture by design? (Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism, 01/12/10)
- "Wall Street Will Be Back For More", Nothing has changed. (Chris Hedges, TruthDig, 01/11/10)
- "The Other Plot to Wreck America", The 'financial weapons of mass destruction' that wrecked our economy. (Frank Rich, New York Times, 01/10/10)
- "Common Sense on Prison, Education Funds", US fritters away global advantages with gulag politics. (Derrick Z. Jackson, Boston Globe, 01/09/10)
- "Hope Has Left the Building", The disaster that is the Obama administration. (Arun Gupta, The Indypendent, 01/08/10)
- "Make Us All Citizens of the World", We must regard every human being on the planet as a member of the human race and a citizen of the world. (Paul deLespinasse, Gazette Times, 01/07/10)
- "Blowback Effect: The World in 2020", A natural blowback effect that will become increasingly visible in the coming decade. (Michael T. Klare, TomDispatch, 01/06/10)
- "It's Our Lives, It's Our Money", Do health reform in the sunshine. (Donna Smith, Common Dreams, 01/05/10)
- "Federal Enforcement to be Used Against You", Federal enforcement to be used against you, but not to protect you from the insurance companies. (Jon Walker, FireDogLake, 01/04/10)
- World's Climate Refugees Unable to Return Home, Environmental refugees have lost everything. (New York Times, 01/03/10)
- US Loan Effort is Seen as Adding to Housing Woes, The Obama administration's program to protect homeowners has done more harm than good. (New York Times, 01/02/10)
- Chertoff Pushes Body Scanners, Ex-Homeland Security Chief Head abuses public trust by touting body scanners. (Washington Post, 01/01/10)
- "Since 9/11, We've Embraced Our Inner Coward", Now it's all fear. (Ted Rall, Common Dreams, 12/31/09)
- "How to Solve the Climate Problem", What we need to do to solve the climate problem. (James Hansen, The Nation, 12/30/09)
- End Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Solar could generate 15% of power by 2020, if US ends fossil fuel subsidies. (SolveClimate, 12/29/09)
- "Christmas Presents for Bankers", The financial sector saps every last cent from the productive economy. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 12/28/09)
- "The Chance to Face Climate Change With Honesty", Copenhagen has given us the chance to face climate change with honesty. (James Hansen, Observer, 12/27/09)
- Africa: Drying, Drying, Disappearing ..., Lake Chad could disappear within 20 years. (Inter Press Service, 12/26/09)
- "Can We Rescue the Republic Before the Dark Politics Take Over?", We have nearly lost our sense of self-government. (Kirk Nielsen and Miller-McCune, AlterNet, 12/25/09)
- Lee, Woolsey Push for Public Option, Liberal Democrats in the House launch a defense of the public option. (Politico, 12/24/09)
- "Obama Double-Crossed Progressives on Health Care", Obama played us all for fools. (Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, 12/23/09)
- Physicians Call for Defeat of Senate Health Bill, Pro-single-payer physicians call for defeat of Senate health bill. (Common Dreams, 12/22/09)
- "10 Reasons to Kill the Senate Bill", What's going to happen to people if the Senate bill passes. (Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake, 12/21/09)
- "They're All Against Jobs", The reason for those opposing jobs is money. (Sen. Fritz Hollings, Huffington Post, 12/20/09)
- "Foreclose on the Banks", How to give America its best Christmas ever. (Ted Rall, 12/19/09)
- Voters Reject Health Care Mandate Without Public Option, Medicare Buy-In, Voters are not pleased by the idea of health insurance mandates without a public option or a Medicare expansion. (Huffington Post, 12/18/09)
- "Copenhagen Negotiators Bicker and Filibuster While the Biosphere Burns", The chaotic, disastrous denouement of a chaotic and disastrous climate summit. (George Monbiot, Guardian, 12/18/09)
- Leaked UN Report Shows Cuts Offered Would Lead to 3C Rise, A UN analysis reveals that the emissions cuts offered so far at the Copenhagen climate change summit will lead to global temperatures rising by an average of 3C. (Guardian, 12/17/09)
- Our Climate, Not Your Business!, Civil society declares: Our climate, not your business! (Inter Press Service/Terra Viva, 12/16/09)
- "It is a Battle to Redefine Humanity", Survival depends on accepting we live within limits. (George Monbiot, Guardian, 12/15/09)
- Copenhagen Chaos, Developing countries insist Kyoto stays. (Inter Press Service, 12/14/09)
- "Obama's Big Sellout", Obama packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway. (Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 12/13/09)
- "America's Race to the Bottom", The greedy will always use their power to acquire wealth. (David Michael Green, Common Dreams, 12/12/09)
- Leaders of the Rich World are Enacting a Giant Fraud, Only a corrupt shuffling of words designed to allow countries to wriggle out of the bare minimum necessary to prevent the unraveling of the biosphere. (Independent, 12/11/09)
- "Former Bailout Czar Signs on With Firm that Helped Run Bailout", The revolving door between government and the financial sector. (Zachary Roth, TPM, 12/10/09)
- Some Wall Street Firms Are Too Big – to Punish, In the eyes of federal regulators, many Wall Street firms are too big to punish. (McClatchy Newspapers, 12/09/09)
- "Blame Bernanke", Bernanke could have acted to burst America's housing bubble, but he did nothing. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 12/08/09)
- Copenhagen Climate Conference Opens to Dire Warnings, Grim warnings of the apocalyptic dangers for mankind if world leaders fail to agree on a way to stave off global warming. (Agence France Presse, 12/07/09)
- "US Land Mine Policy is Shameful", Obama follows Bush's footsteps and will not sign the International Mine Ban Treaty. (Jody Williams, Capital Times, 12/06/09)
- Climate Change Protesters Take to London Streets, People calling for a deal on climate change march through central London. (Associated Press, 12/05/09)
- Large-Scale Farms Killing Land as Well as Towns, A passive populace obsessed with easy answers has led to an economy that is destroying America's land. (Daily Progress, 12/04/09)
- DeFazio Calls for Tax on Wall Street Speculators, DeFazio proposes a tax on the financial transactions of high volume speculators. (The Oregonian, 12/03/09)
- "Time to Audit the Fed", Two key lawmakers push to authorize a full, comprehensive audit of the Federal Reserve. (Zach Carter, Media Consortium, 12/02/09)
- Major Cities at Risk from Rising Sea Level Threat, Sea levels will rise by twice as much as previously predicted. (The Times, 12/01/09)
- Senate Bill Contains a Gift for Big Banks, The provision would allow big banks to open new branches in states regardless of local laws. (Huffington Post, 11/30/09)
- "Social Status Has Measurable Effect on Health", Poor people have shorter and sicker lives. (Rick Wilson, Gazette-Mail, 11/29/09)
- "Bargains Galore!", But who pays the price? (Bama Athreya and David Batstone, Common Dreams, 11/28/09)
- "We're Being Driven Off a Cliff", In Afghanistan and at home, we are being driven off a cliff. (Ron Smith, Baltimore Sun, 11/27/09)
- "Constant Information – and Nothing Remembered", Willful amnesia and a society that doesn't learn from its past. (Neal Gabler, Boston Globe, 11/26/09)
- Lead, Chemicals Found in Toys Despite Stricter Law, Tests discover some products contain banned chemicals and illegal amounts of lead. (Washington Post, 11/25/09)
- "The Budget Deficit Crisis", The blame is bipartisan. (Dean Baker, Huffington Post, 11/24/09)
- Antarctic Ice Loss Vaster, Faster Than Thought, The East Antarctic icesheet has lost billions of tons of ice since 2006. (Independent, 11/23/09)
- Fed Under Fire as Public Anger Mounts, There's a lot of populist anger out there. (Associated Press, 11/22/09)
- "A Show About Nothing", The placeholder presidency of Barack Obama. (David Michael Green, Common Dreams, 11/21/09)
- UN Urges Global Action on Children, One billion children around the world are still deprived of food, shelter, clean water, and healthcare. (Al Jazeera English, 11/20/09)
- US Residents Fight for the Right to Hang Laundry, People across America fight for the right to dry their laundry outside. (Reuters, 11/19/09)
- "Hungering for a True Thanksgiving", 10 children die of hunger every minute. (Amy Goodman, TruthDig, 11/18/09)
- GM Seeds Encourage Pesticides Use, A new report reveals that GM seeds encourage pesticides use and contribute to growth of superweeds. (Civil Eats, 11/17/09)
- "Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having", Do we want to create a society that depends on shots for immunity? (Bill Maher, Huffington Post, 11/16/09)
- "How I Stopped Hating Thanksgiving and Learned to be Afraid", Thanksgiving should teach us all to be afraid. (Robert Jensen, Common Dreams, 11/15/09)
- US, Somalia Still Opt Out of Children's Treaty, The failure of the US to ratify the world's most universally embraced human rights treaty. (Inter Press Service, 11/14/09)
- UN Investigator Accuses US of Shameful Neglect of Homeless, Wealthy US ignores deepening homeless crisis while pumping billions into bank rescues. (Guardian, 11/13/09)
- "No Armistice in War on Poor", The war is far from over and the spoils are just beginning to mount. (Laura Flanders, The Nation, 11/12/09)
- "Still Waiting for Health Care", The bill is just an expansion of government health insurance designed to increase corporate profits. (Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, 11/11/09)
- "Making Wall Street Pay", Wall Street's bankers should pay to clean up their mess. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 11/10/09)
- "Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill", The bill will make a bad situation worse. (John Nichols, The Nation, 11/09/09)
- "Why I Voted NO", This health care bill continues the redistribution of wealth to Wall Street. (Dennis Kucinich, Common Dreams, 11/08/09)
- Broader Measure of US Unemployment Stands at 17.5%, More than one out of every six workers was unemployed or underemployed in October. (New York Times, 11/07/09)
- US Jobless Rate Surpasses 10%, US jobless rate surpasses 10% to hit 26-year high. (Times Online, 11/06/09)
- Spokane Considers Community Bill of Rights, People vote to protect nine basic rights. (Yes! Magazine, 11/05/09)
- African Nations Make a Stand at UN Climate Talks, African countries say they are prepared to provoke a major UN crisis. (Guardian, 11/04/09)
- "The Medicare-for-All Moment", The only solution to the problems of the uninsured and rising health care costs is a single payer system. (Robert Weissman, Common Dreams, 11/03/09)
- "Breaking Up the Banks is Hard to Do", If Congress gets its way, US banks will be bigger and less accountable than ever. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 11/02/09)
- What Lies Beneath the Rainforest, Ecuador says pay us not to pump the oil. (Independent, 11/01/09)
- "Why is the USDA Continuing Loans for New Factory Farms?", Make known your support for America's family farms. (Lenny Russo, Star Tribune, 10/31/09)
- Secret Bailouts for Giant Failing Banks of the Future?, A bill proposes that big banks will not be forced to downsize and the public will be the last to know when they fail. (Inter Press Service, 10/30/09)
- Sanders to Push for Single-Payer Vote in Senate, Sen. Sanders will bring a bill creating a national single-payer health care system to the floor of the Senate for a vote. (Rutland Herald, 10/29/09)
- European Governments to Break Up Big Banks, Big banks will be broken up and parts sold off to create new banks. (Independent, 10/28/09)
- "Rhetoric and Reality", People are losing hope for any change. (Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, 10/27/09)
- From the Big Showdown in Chicago, Three days of bank protests. (PR Watch, 10/26/09)
- Leaderless, Senate pushes for public option without Obama's support. (Huffington Post, 10/25/09)
- International Day of Demonstrations on Climate Change, People around the world stage a day of demonstrations to call for urgent action on climate change. (Common Dreams, 10/24/09)
- Groups Use 350's Big Day to Fight Cap-and-Trade, International day of climate action opposes market-based approaches to capping global warming emissions. (Guardian, 10/23/09)
- "Michael Moore's Action Plan", 15 things every American can do right now. (Michael Moore, Common Dreams, 10/22/09)
- DNA Profiling, You may be next. (Mission Local, 10/22/09)
- Progressive House Dems Want Medicare for (E)veryone, Medicare Part E would be Medicare for Everyone. (The Hill, 10/21/09)
- Chronic Illnesses More Often Undiscovered, Undertreated in Uninsured, Uninsured people are more likely to have undiagnosed and undertreated medical conditions. (Boston Globe, 10/20/09)
- "Embrace the Dollar's Downfall", The US economy would be much better off if China stopped buying US debt. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 10/19/09)
- "Small Group Now Leads Closed Negotiations", Small group now leads closed negotiations on health care bill. (Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post, 10/18/09)
- "Another Goldman Executive Named to Key Government Post", Another Goldman executive named to key government post as its profits skyrocket. (Glenn Greenwald, Salon, 10/17/09)
- "How Dems Set Stage for Corporate-Backed Health Care Campaign", A multimillion-dollar advertising campaign. (Ben Smith and Kenneth P. Vogel, Politico, 10/16/09)
- As Foreclosures Hit All-Time High, Wall Street to hand out record in employee bonuses. (Democracy Now!, 10/15/09)
- Drugmakers, Doctors Rake in Billions Battling H1N1 Flu, Taxpayers are footing the $1.5 billion check for the vaccines that the government has ordered so far. (ABC News, 10/14/09)
- "Take America Back From the Banks", We must rein in the financial industry's power and greed. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 10/13/09)
- "Of Health Care, War, Costs and Consequences", The ways Americans analyze these two policy issues are incongruous. (David Morris, Star Tribune, 10/12/09)
- Millions Will Starve, Millions will starve as rich nations cut food aid funding. (Guardian, 10/11/09)
- "The Revolving Door is Hazardous to Your Health", A takeover of government. (Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Common Dreams, 10/10/09)
- Four Degrees of Devastation, This is the biggest challenge in our history. (Inter Press Service, 10/09/09)
- "Letter to Obama From the Mad as Hell Doctors", The truths about our health care system. (Paul Hochfeld, Common Dreams, 10/08/09)
- "Goofing Up Health Care Reform", Consumers need the honest competition that the public insurance option could provide. (Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate, 10/07/09)
- Island Nations Frustrated at Climate Talks, The Alliance of Small Island States calls for a significant reduction in global emissions. (IRIN, 10/06/09)
- "Banks 1, America 0", Be prepared to endure many more years of high unemployment, under-employment, and declining wages. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 10/05/09)
- Firms are Getting Billions, but Homeowners Still in Trouble, The federal government gives billions in tax dollars to the companies that engage in abusive mortgage practices. (McClatchy Newspapers, 10/04/09)
- "Do They Take Us for Schmucks?", The CFPA's sole mission should be to look out for consumer interests. (Greg Kaufmann, The Nation, 10/03/09)
- Food Supply Hangs in the Balance, Millions of people are on the brink of starvation. (Inter Press Service, 10/02/09)
- "If the Russians Did This to Us, We'd Kill 'Em", The United States has ceased in any meaningful way to be owned by citizens. (David Michael Green, Common Dreams, 10/02/09)
- "Casino Capitalism as Usual", Economic reforms must create living wage jobs and slash inequality. (Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus, 10/01/09)
- Gore Vidal: We'll Have a Dictatorship Soon in the US, Gore Vidal claims America is 'rotting away'. (Times Online, 09/30/09)
- "Why the Current Bills Don't Solve Our Health Care Crisis", 13 problems with the current health care bills. (Rose Ann DeMoro and Michael Moore, Huffington Post, 09/29/09)
- "The Public Option is Nothing to Fear", Honest conservatives would have no objection to giving the public a choice. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 09/28/09)
- Bailed-out Banks Lobby Hard to Stave Off Limits, Bank lobbyists retain an enormous amount of influence. (Boston Globe, 09/27/09)
- "Medicare for All: Yes We Can", America is the only country that rations the right to health care to those 65 and older. (Holly Sklar, Common Dreams, 09/26/09)
- Banks Fight to Kill Proposed Consumer Protection Agency, One of the financial sector's top priorities is killing a proposed new agency that would be dedicated to protecting consumers' financial interests. (McClatchy Newspapers, 09/25/09)
- "Why the Public Option is Doomed to Fail", And what can be done about it. (Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report, 09/24/09)
- "Collapse or Survive", The stark choice facing our species. (Johann Hari, Independent, 09/23/09)
- Protect Insurance Companies PSA, A satiric video tries to 'protect' insurance company profits from the evils of health care reform. (Huffington Post, 09/22/09)
- "Break Up America's Banks", We need a banking system accountable to the public. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 09/21/09)
- Grizzly Bear Decline Alarms Conservationists in Canada, The grizzly bear is the latest species to face impending disaster. (Guardian, 09/20/09)
- Ralph Nader Turns to Fiction, Plutocrats who conspire to set off a progressive revolution. (San Francisco Chronicle, 09/19/09)
- "Can America Be Salvaged?", The total absence of political figures willing to protect their country. (David Michael Green, Common Dreams, 09/18/09)
- "Once Again the Animals Were Conscious of a Vague Uneasiness", Democrats are not much better for us than the Republicans. (Christopher Cooper, Common Dreams, 09/17/09)
- "Who Really Crashed the Economy?", And why do we keep blaming the wrong people? (David Korten, Yes! Magazine, 09/17/09)
- "How Corporate PR Works to Kill Healthcare Reform", Health insurers have become expert at using PR to get what they want. (Wendell Potter, Salon, 09/16/09)
- "Clean Energy Centers Growing Worldwide", But not in US. (Yael Borofsky, Breakthrough Institute, 09/15/09)
- "Why Capitalism Fails", The meltdown will happen again. (Stephen Mihm, Boston Globe, 09/14/09)
- Our Heat is Turning the Arctic into an Alien Landscape, The symptoms of our planetary fever are becoming more obvious with each passing year. (Independent, 09/13/09)
- "Rolling the Dice Again", The Wall Street gang is at it again. (Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, 09/12/09)
- "How 9/11 Should Be Remembered", The extraordinary achievements of ordinary people. (Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch, 09/11/09)
- US Poverty Rate Hits 11-Year High, The US poverty rate hits its highest level in 11 years in 2008. (Reuters, 09/10/09)
- "Medicare Part E: Everybody", Medicare for anybody who wants it. (Thom Hartmann, Common Dreams, 09/09/09)
- "What Exactly Did the Fed Do With $2 Trillion?", Congress should not let the Fed send trillions out the door without a verifiable paper trail. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 09/08/09)
- "Food is Power and the Powerful are Poisoning Us", Our most potent political weapon is food. (Chris Hedges, TruthDig, 09/07/09)
- Capitalism is Evil, The conclusion Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie. (Reuters, 09/06/09)
- "Words Matter", What happens when words fall into the hands of corporate and government propagandists. (Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, 09/05/09)
- "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours", The conversion of democracy to a performance with the public as spectators will have dire consequences. (Noam Chomsky, Boston Review, 09/04/09)
- "Big Bucks for Bailout Barons", The historic inequality in pay is still prevalent. (Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation, 09/03/09)
- "Bush's Third Term? You're Living It", A portrait of Obama's first term to date. (David Swanson, TomDispatch, 09/02/09)
- "The Drive for Single Payer", Everybody in, nobody out. (Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, 09/01/09)
- "Reverse Bank Robbery", No wonder America's banks are making profits again – the US government is bribing them to borrow its own money. (Dean Baker, Guardian, 08/31/09)
- "CIA Fails Mission to Detect Danger", Presidents come and go – and the CIA remains. (Pierre Tristam, News-Journal, 08/30/09)
- "A Modest Proposal, from a Concerned Citizen", A Populist movement unmatched in American history will be required. (Norman Ferris, Common Dreams, 08/29/09)
- Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger, The biggest of the banks are even bigger. (Washington Post, 08/28/09)
- "Liar, Liar ... Well, Healthcare Pants on Fire", It's not just the right-wing selling myths. (Donna Smith, Common Dreams, 08/27/09)
- "A Bailout for the US Healthcare Industry", It looks like another massive corporate bailout. (Rose Ann DeMoro, Ottawa Citizen, 08/26/09)
- "It's Time for a Better Poverty Measure", The federal poverty measure which shapes our understanding of poverty is deeply flawed. (Mark H. Greenberg, Center for American Progress, 08/25/09)
- "This Isn't Reform, It's Robbery", Capitalists should never be allowed near a health care system. (Chris Hedges, TruthDig, 08/24/09)
- "Socialized Medicine? Not Quite", 5 myths about health care around the world. (T. R. Reid, Washington Post, 08/23/09)
- "Why the Gang of Six is Deciding Health Care for Three Hundred Million of Us", Why does the fate of health care rest in Grassley's hands? (Robert Reich, Huffington Post, 08/22/09)
- Ridge Felt a Push to Politicize Alert Levels, Ridge says he was pressured by Bush's Cabinet to raise the nation's terror alert level before the 2004 presidential election. (Boston Globe, 08/21/09)
- In Hot Water, World sets ocean temperature record. (Associated Press, 08/20/09)
- Methane Seeps From Arctic Sea-Bed, The powerful greenhouse gas methane is escaping from the Arctic sea-bed. (BBC News, 08/19/09)
- Labor Warns Dems, We'll sit out election if you oppose public plan. (Huffington Post, 08/18/09)
- "Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal", Let American citizens buy into the program. (Thom Hartmann, Common Dreams, 08/17/09)
- June's Record Ocean Warmth Worries Fishermen, Environmentalists, Ocean surface temperatures around the world were the warmest on record for the month of June. (McClatchy Newspapers, 08/16/09)
- The Brutal Truth About America's Healthcare, A report from Guy Adams in Los Angeles at the music arena that has been turned into a makeshift medical center. (Independent, 08/15/09)
- Should Water be Legislated as a Human Right?, The growing commercialization of water triggers a rising demand for the legal classification of one of the basic necessities of life as a human right. (Inter Press Service, 08/14/09)
- Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways in White House Deal With Big Pharma, A memo confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of deal that both parties have been denying. (Huffington Post, 08/13/09)
- Urban Farms Take Root, Small-scale farms and garden plots are coming to life in unlikely places. (Inter Press Service, 08/12/09)
- "Can We Stop Banksters From Killing Financial Reform?", Why Wall Street is pleased by the focus on debating healthcare. (Danny Schechter, Common Dreams, 08/11/09)
- "Where Did That Bank Bailout Go?", Watchdogs aren't sure. (Chris Adams, McClatchy Newspapers, 08/10/09)
- "Fascist America: Are We There Yet?", If you know what you're looking for – it's everywhere. (Sara Robinson, OurFuture, 08/09/09)
- "Faulty Forecasting", Win or lose – they get their fees. (Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, 08/08/09)
- "Will Obama Crack Down on Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water?", Rocket fuel pollution in water and soil is a bigger problem than you might think. (Elaine Shannon, Huffington Post, 08/07/09)
- "Corporate Greed vs. People's Health in America", The increasing evidence of the role played by corporations and politicians to hinder provision of adequate health care to the majority of Americans. (Cesar Chelala, Common Dreams, 08/06/09)
- "The Incredible Shrinking Healthcare Reform", Healthcare reform is wasting away. (Norman Solomon, Common Dreams, 08/05/09)
- "Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever", Groups backing single-payer gear up for August activism. (John Nichols, The Nation, 08/04/09)
- "Purloining the People's Property", The giveaways at bargain-basement prices of what Americans own eclipses imagination. (Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, 08/03/09)
- "On Conspiracy Theories", Where does the concept of dismissing inquiry into momentous events as 'conspiracy theory' come from? (Ernest A. Canning, BradBlog, 08/02/09)
- Prolonged Aid to Unemployed is Running Out, Unemployment insurance is now a lifeline for nine million Americans. (New York Times, 08/02/09)
- Big Money Fuels Health Care Battle, The world's largest privately owned firm has been increasing its lobbying efforts recently. (Toronto Star, 08/01/09)
- Bailed-Out US Banks Gave Employees Billions in Bonuses in 2008, Banks pay out big bonuses while accepting US taxpayer money. (Associated Press, 07/31/09)
- "Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire", Ten steps to liquidate the empire. (Chalmers Johnson, TomDispatch, 07/30/09)
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