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Category Archives: Commentary
Baucus Healthcare Plan: Arrest Doctors, Nurses
Baucus Healthcare Plan: Arrest Doctors, Nurses posted by JOHN NICHOLS on 05/13/2009 @ 3:12pm EmailPrintShare Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, the insurance industry-friendly Democrat who is managing show hearings on healthcare reform, has come up with a novel way … Continue reading
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The Most Honest Article about Afghanistan You Will Ever Read
Newsletter AlterNet Headlines Pipeline-Istan: Everything You Need to Know About Oil, Gas, Russia, China, Iran, Afghanistan and Obama By Pepe Escobar, Tomdispatch.com. Posted May 13, 2009. Nothing of significance takes place in Eurasia without an energy angle. As Barack Obama … Continue reading
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No Justice for Libby Montana. Call Attorney General Steve Bullock
No Justice for Libby By ANDREA PEACOCK A collective stunned silence hit the state of Montana last Friday at lunch, as news filtered out from federal district Judge Donald Molloy’s Missoula courtroom that W.R. Grace and three of its former … Continue reading
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What is Populism?
Memo to Media: Populism Is a Rebellion Against Corporate Power — It’s Not Just Stupid, Raw Anger By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted May 8, 2009. Our fight against money elites has more than 100 years of history. When I … Continue reading
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The fate of our grizzly bears, bt Doug Peacock
It’s Time to Put the Great Bear Back on the Endangered Species List The Fate of the Yellowstone Grizzly The Yellowstone grizzly bear population is again in serious trouble. During 2008, the bears suffered a double disaster: grizzlies died in … Continue reading
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Banks Own Congress? Well Let’s Take It Back!
Lawrence LessigCo-founder of Change Congress, founder of Stanford Law’s Center for Internet & Society Posted May 4, 2009 | 04:43 PM (EST) Banks Think They “Own” Congress? Wrong — We’re Taking Congress Back If you think special-interest influence in Congress … Continue reading
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Swine Flu -Are We Killing Ourselves?
Kathy FrestonSelf-help author, personal growth and spirituality counselor Posted May 4, 2009 | 01:50 PM (EST) Are we killing ourselves? There has been a lot of talk in recent days about how factory farmed animals are the cause of the … Continue reading
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10 Things To Do To Oppose War in Afghanistan
Ten More Things You Can Do to Oppose War in Afghanistan Comment by TOM HAYDEN April 30, 2009 Editor’s Note: Peace activist Tom Hayden adds his ideas to Z.P. Heller’s April 8 piece, Ten Things You Can Do to Oppose … Continue reading
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The “Great Recession”
Updated: New York, May 04 09:32London, May 04 14:32Tokyo, May 04 22:32 ‘Great Recession’ Will Redefine Full Employment as Jobs Vanish By Matthew Benjamin and Rich Miller May 4 (Bloomberg) — Post-recession America may be saddled with high unemployment even … Continue reading
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Cowboy Up, Montana Senators, by the Montana Maven (Diane Kamp, Big Timber, Montana)
(Moderator’s note: this piece is reposted with permission of the author from the blog Montana Maven’s Opinions Worth Ropin’ ) see: http://montanamaven.com/ Okay, Gail Collins beat me to it. Just when we Montanans were getting over being made fun of … Continue reading →