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Thousands March Against Their Own Self-Interest
When you see this happening, you just know that big insurance has already won the battle. Health care reform in Amerikkka is a pipe dream. Joe Bageant tried to help me understand why so many vote against their own self-interest, … Continue reading
We’re Number Thirty-Seven
Thanks to Jeffrey Segal / The Rag Blog
Foodie Friday: Food Is Power
Graphic from the Environmental Working Group.The Carbon TradeBy Janet Gilles / The Rag Blog / September 11, 2009 Seventy percent of the farm subsidy goes to just a small number of states in the upper Mississippi River basin, where farmers … Continue reading
Michael Pollan: What’s Really Wrong with Health Care in America – Corporate Agribusiness
Big Food vs. Big InsuranceBy Michael Pollan / September 9, 2009 TO listen to President Obama’s speech on Wednesday night, or to just about anyone else in the health care debate, you would think that the biggest problem with health … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Alternative Health Care, Food Production, Health Care, Obama Administration
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Juan Cole: Labor Day in a Kleptocracy
Where have All the broad Shoulders Gone? Or, Labor Day in a KleptocracyBy Juan Cole / September 7, 2009 The unemployment rate as I write is inching toward 10 percent nationally, and that is only counting people who were still … Continue reading
Firefighters: Mostly Paramedics in Some Places
Firefighters from Company 10 responding to an emergency call in Washington in late August. Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times.Firefighters Become Medics to the PoorBy Ian Urbina / September 3, 2009 WASHINGTON — Peeling off his latex gloves after treating … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Public Health
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Alberto Gonzales, the Tragic Opera
Alberto Gonzales, the Opera, Hits StageSeptember 4, 2009 A graduate music student has taken the political theater of Washington, D.C., one step further this summer. She’s turned it into opera. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ congressional grilling in April 2007 … Continue reading
Chomsky: Global Crises and Dealing with Them
Crisis and Hope: Theirs and OursBy Noam Chomsky / September 2009 Perhaps I may begin with a few words about the title. There is too much nuance and variety to make such sharp distinctions as theirs-and-ours, them-and-us. And neither I … Continue reading
BOOKS / We Are All Zimbabweans Now
We Are all Zimbabweans Now (a brief summary)By James Kilgore / The Rag Blog / September 1, 2009 [We Are All Zimbabweans Now: A Novel by James Kilgore, paperback, 272 pp, RH-Struik Publishing, August 24, 2009,$23.95.] We Are All Zimbabweans … Continue reading
The Afghan War Is Winnable ?
Soviet helicopter brought down by locals in Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.A question, does the following give a true picture? The Afghan War is winnable,The facts, perhaps, are spinnable,Karzai’s intent’s not sinnable,Our General now states. A Soviet Gen’ral said the same,His … Continue reading
