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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
Peak Oil: Will It Be Sooner Than We Expect?
Warning: Oil supplies are running out fastBy Steve Connor / August 3, 2009 Catastrophic shortfalls threaten economic recovery, says world’s top energy economist The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because … Continue reading
Derelict Auto Plants Growing in Numbers
The NY Times writers generously call these derelict plants ‘white elephants.’ Perhaps ‘capitalism’s skeletal remains’ is more accurate. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog The Wixom Assembly Plant in Wixom, Mich., was one of Ford’s largest and oldest facilities, but … Continue reading
Obama Administration: Continuing the Police State Mentality of BushCo
This is nothing other than shameful. This administration continues to move away from the promise of a different future, but rather marches closer and closer to fascism. The police state holds no promise. Why does Barack Obama not see this? … Continue reading
Joe Bageant: A Short History of the United States of Amnesia
The Bastards Never DieBy Joe Bageant / July 31, 2009 A short history of why we eat oil, can’t smoke pot, and why assault weapons are so expensive in our hour of need (With running commentary by THE SCREAMING MAN) … Continue reading
