The President calls health insurance reform critical to our nation’s long-term economic strength and dispells the outlandish rumors being promoted by those who are defending the status quo.

By Donna Smith | PDA Co-Chair of the Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign
If you doubt for one moment the power of money and its control over whether or not our nation will grant the human right …

Launches Petition Drive Calling on Obama to Initiate Negotiations for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
New York, NY — United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ) — to mark the 64th anniversary of the August 6th and …

Meet the Retreads
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR | CounterPunch
Of all of Barack Obama’s airy platitudes about change none were more vaporous than his platitudes about the environment and within that category Obama has had little at …

By John Chan | World Socialist Website
22 June 2009
Four emerging economic powers—Brazil, Russia, India and China, collectively known as BRIC—held their first summit in Russian city of Yekaterinburg on June 16. A summit of Shanghai …

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 …

ANALYSIS OF THE CONFERENCE AGREEMENT ON THE SECOND FISCAL YEAR 2009 SUPPLEMENTAL SPENDING REQUEST (H.R. 2346/S. 1054)
On June 11 House and Senate conferees approved a $105.9 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill for the latter part …

The “Real Time” host has some harsh words for the president, who, he says, is caving to insurance companies, banks and polluters: “This is not getting the job done. And this is not what …