Single-Payers Crashing the Gates
6-30-2009 – 4:31 pm | Comments

by Marcy Winograd
One of the many frustrations for advocates of single-payer health care is the relentless drive to marginalize us, not only by conservatives but also by members of our own party.
Case in point: …

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Leaders say lax enforcement costing jobs
6-29-2009 – 8:43 am | Comments

hayes__robin_a64bOlivia Webb | Richmond County Daily Journal

A congressional hearing on CAFTA fraud — and its effects on the American textile industry — was held Thursday, with two North Carolina mill owners testifying.

“It’s costing jobs,” said Sarah Pierce, senior vice president of the National Council of Textile Organizations on Wednesday. “It’s causing plants to close.”

In 2005, then-congressman Robin Hayes (R-N.C.) cast the deciding vote in favor of passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. A controversial follow up to the North American Free Trade Agreement, the law eliminated tariffs on the majority of U.S. exports to El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and and now the Dominican Republic. Read the full story »

The Emperor’s Seven Signing Statements
6-28-2009 – 4:54 pm | Comments
The Emperor’s Seven Signing Statements

By David Swanson | AfterDowningStreet.org
Lawless detention is the least of it. State secrets and warrantless spying scrape the surface. Drone attacks and ongoing torture http://afterdowningstreet.org/ongoingtorture begin to touch it. But central to the power of …

Video: Neda
6-26-2009 – 5:12 am | Comments
Video:  Neda

Dedicated to Neda, and the voices of Iran calling for fairness, justice, and the rights and freedoms of all. Continue to fight - do not be afraid against the oppression, it is their insecurity that …

Tricky Dicks
6-24-2009 – 9:34 pm | Comments

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
Too bad Richard Nixon didn’t have a mistress in Argentina, but he would have had to invade it first. In fact, anything outside his liquor cabinet was rightly thought of as a …

IOT: Health Care Call 6-16-2009
6-24-2009 – 4:53 am | Comments
IOT: Health Care Call 6-16-2009

Special guests were Dr Michael Rachlis and Larry Rousseau who tlaked about the Canadian Healthcare System. We also has Single Payer from the Hill.
Note: Recording ends at 1:12 mark.

HEALTH CARE REFORM
6-23-2009 – 10:22 am | Comments
HEALTH CARE REFORM

Health Care Reform will ideally be fully funded by the Health Services Department and scrupulously avoid involvement of the Insurance Companies, which have only grossly inflated the costs of Healthcare for their own profit including …

A Time Out for Tyranny
6-21-2009 – 9:20 pm | Comments

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
It doesn’t seem like it, but it is almost two weeks ago that the people of Iran went to the polls to choose their next president. On June 12, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faced …