David Swanson points out in this short video that the public option is essential to an Obama Health Care Reform bill.
Obama's undeniable and very public reversal on the public insurance option in the health care debate has caused celebration among Republicans... and among those who supported him... wonderment.
Cheney's strategy to avoid prosecution for war crimes is to link activities for torture policies to George W. Bush. The author makes a good case for thinking that Cheney was more upset with Bush failing to pardon him than with his failure to pardon Libby.
Defenders of Britain's system point out that the UK spends less per head on healthcare but has a higher life expectancy than the US. The World Health Organisation ranks Britain's healthcare as 18th in the world, while the US is in 37th place.
"Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East" and "the Biblical prophecies are about to be fulfilled" President Bush told the French President Jacques Chirac to explain why he was invading Iraq and wanted France to join a coalition of the willing.
Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson concocted a neat little slight-of-hand to give 12.9 Billion of our tax dollars to Goldman Sachs... and we citizen taxpayers got nothing in return.
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This article documents how drug company's demand for profits kills people and encourages research into drugs that make money not drugs that would save the most lives, The drug company's also spend more money on advertizing than on what little they put into research--and much of …
Why would Obama fail on so many campaign promises? He's not a president of peace--we have more troops in Afghanistan and they are not soon going to leave Iraq. His administration is not firm on stopping Israel from attacking Iran.
The Federal Reserve has lent out about $2 trillion since September, dwarfing he Treasury's $700 billion bailout plan--and won't say to whom. Few know about this, but Congressman Alan Grayson wants some transparency. Will he be able to shed a light on the Fed's secret spending?
This article and its graphics explain the global financial pyramid scheme, why there is no plausible financial bailout solution, and that we are in a financial crisis to the tune of $290 trillion.
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