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American Ignorance or American Arrogance?
Anatomy of American IgnoranceBy Bill Noxid / August 18, 2009 It’s a full time occupation trying to unravel the reasons Americans remain in the dark. What seems (to any intelligent outside observer) like sheer stupidity and arrogance is in reality … Continue reading
Killing Yourself with Kindness : Obama’s Bipartisan Kick
Killing Yourself with Kindness Despite the lies, the real insecurity that people feel, and the shameless Republican opportunism, health reform will be a loser for Obama and the Democrats unless this president can shake off his delusion that bipartisanship works. … Continue reading
Congress and Health Care : ‘Ye Love Wealth Better Than Liberty’
Sameul Adams: “Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.” If proposed health care legislation is to be a farce and a sham, [I hope] that the progressives… will vote it down, and deny the insurance and drug companies … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Corporate Power, Educational Reform, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration
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Gog, Magog and the Burning Bush!
The REAL force behind the Iraq War? Gog the demon as envisioned by Marvel Comics.A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush Now-departed President Bush is a religious crackpot, an ex-drunk of small intellect who ‘got saved.’ He never should have … Continue reading
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Tagged Evangelical Christians, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Religious Fanaticism
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Whole Foods Founder John Mackey : Reactionary on Health Care Reform
Whole Foods founder John Mackey speaks out against health care reform in Wall Street Journal …we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction — toward less government control and more individual empowerment — Whole Foods … Continue reading
Red-Baiting and Racism : Socialism as the New Black Bogeyman
Obama as Joker: Poster currently being distributed in Los Angeles.Red-baiting and racism:When ‘socialism’ isn’t really about socialism This noise is about race. It is about ‘othering’ a President who is seen as a symbol of white dispossession: dispossession of white … Continue reading
Former Insurance Exec Says Industry Behind Town Hall Disruptions
Wendell Potter on Rachel Maddow Show Whistleblower: Insurance firms ‘very much’ behind town hall disruptions The health insurance companies ‘are very much behind the town hall disruptions that you see and a lot of the deception that’s going on in … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Profits, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Rachel Maddow
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Moral Relativism: We Call Our Suicide Bombers ‘Heros’
American child dressed as suicide bomber for Halloween. Photo: Source.Our Suicide Bombers: Thoughts on Western JihadBy John Feffer / August 6, 2009 The actor Will Smith is no one’s image of a suicide bomber. With his boyish face, he has … Continue reading
Fascist America : Are We There Yet?
Fascism in five easy steps …mature democracies turn fascist by a recognizable process, a set of five stages that may be the most important family resemblance that links all the whole motley collection of 20th Century fascisms together. By Sara … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, American Society, Fascism, KKK, Religious Right, Republican Party, Right Wing, Right Wing Extremists, Tea Baggers
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Exposing Lies About Canadian Health Care
Common Myths About the Canadian Health Care System Exposed By Victoria Foe / The Rag Blog / August 5, 2009 I am a dual U.S./Canadian citizen. I am American by birth. I became a naturalized Canadian in my early forties … Continue reading
Health Care Disruptions an Orchestrated Campaign
UPDATE: ‘Anti-Reform Group Takes Credit For Helping Gin Up Town Hall Rallies.’ Read it here. Rick Scott of “Swift Boat” fame, heads “Conservatives for Patients’ Rights.”Inside the Tea Partiers’ anti-health care organizing campaign Though conservatives portray the tea bagger disruptions … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Conservatives, Health Care Reform, Lloyd Doggett, Right Wing Extremists, Social Protest, Tea Baggers
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The Bankruptcy of Economic ‘Theory’ Based on the Celebration of Greed
Just the Facts: Taxes, Debts, and National Prosperity By Sid Eschenbach / The Rag Blog / August 3, 2009 For the past 30 years, conservative Republicans have been able to dominate the economic policy debate by controlling the framework of … Continue reading
