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Obama’s policy was based on the original sin of allowing the pharmaceutical companies off the hook. He then followed this up by pledging public funds to subsidize junk healthcare plans, coercing Americans into purchasing these plans and silencing the voices of single-payer healthcare advocates. Obamacare is not healthcare reform; it is just another corporate giveaway by the Obama administration....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2012 10:10am PDT
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Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2012 5:21pm PDT
“The impeachment of President Lugo was a coup carried out by Conservative forces in the Congress against the will of the people of Paraguay,”...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2012 10:28am PDT
When it is a question of the efficacy of money in politics and workers fail to put up a fight, money prevails. The moral is: money counts — but only if we let it....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 11:20pm PDT
Recently, Mitt Romney made a stop on his “Jobs Tour” in upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania just outside of Philadelphia. His appearance was supposed to be, interestingly, at a local WAWA store (for those out-of-state, WAWA is a convenience store chain) Why is this interesting? Because WAWA, like so many employers these days, is a low wage, no benefit “job creator.”...
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 6:20pm PDT
"Trade deals such as NAFTA and now the TPP are being used to smuggle through a new set of transnational corporate rights, trapping nations in a web of treaties that further trump their own laws. All too often, these agreements fail to deliver on the promise of prosperity and only serve to accelerate the path towards economic enslavement. Globalization has meant sacrificing self-sufficiency and sovereignty for foreign dependency which is a sure path to world government."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 2:25pm PDT
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has made it absolutely clear that Super PACs are legal, how do you start a Super PAC to promote marijuana legalization candidates?...
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 10:03am PDT
The recent coup against Paraguay's democratically elected president is not only a blow to democracy, but an attack against the working and poor population that supported and elected President Fernando Lugo, whom they see as a bulwark against the wealthy elite who've dominated the country for decades....
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2012 1:04am PDT
While the movie J. Edgar ignores J. Edgar Hoover’s many successes in silencing American Blacks, leftists, and persecution of homosexuals, it starts out by “justifying” the 1919 Palmer Raids. J. Edgar Hoover’s involvement in the Palmer Raids was at the beginning of his long sordid history of carrying out political repression in the United States. The Palmer Raids, led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer with J. Edgar Hoover on his staff, rounded up leftists including Anarchists, Communist...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2012 3:05pm PDT
If all persons are equal, then why aren't all candidates with the same petition deadline and the same number of petition signature requirements, treated the same in the State of Vermont?...
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2012 5:02pm PDT
This article provides background on SB 1161 (Padilla), a bill written to benefit powerful telecommunications, cable and information technology corporations. This bill will cause the deregulation of telecommunications in California to the detriment of consumers and labor....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2012 11:35pm PDT
The Egyptian revolution's fight for life has reached a critical stage....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 9:16pm PDT
Today, as we commemorate the first anniversary of the adoption of ILO Convention 189 (C189) on Decent Work for Domestic Workers, we call on ILO Member States to immediately ratify and implement C189 as a demonstration of their global commitment made at the 100th Session of the International Labour Conference on 16 June 2011....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 3:53am PDT
Judge Farouk Sultan, head of the Presidential Elections Committee in Egypt, has declined the responsibility for the information on the election’s results, which were published in mass media earlier Monday, Egyptian TV reports....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 12:24am PDT





