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How to Pay for Single Payer Health Insurance, Part Three
This is a continuation of our series of interviews looking at single-payer or government-run health insurance plan and focusing particularly on Maryland.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Legislation Would Place a Tax on Carbon Emissions, and More
In today's On the News segment: The world is on the brink of a major food crisis, Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott introduced legislation last week to place a tax on …
Death Threats, Censorship and the Aztec Calendar
After the January 2012 dismantling of Tucsonu2019s Mexican American Studies (MAS) department by TUSDu2019s governing board, my colleague Norma Gonzalez at MAS-TUSD was forced to take down the image …
The Root of Labor’s Crisis Lies in the Private Sector
The reelection of Governor Scott Walker merely confirmed what trade unionists should already understandu2014laboru2019s current strategies have little chance of success. In the post election soul-searching, labor analysts have …
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Obama Signs Law Giving Health Care to Lejeune Tainted Water Victims
President Barack Obama signed into law on Monday legislation to provide health care to thousands of sick Marine veterans and their families who were exposed to contaminated water at …
Syria’s “Liberated” Future: Ethnic-Religious Cleansing and Genocide
A fascinating shift has happened in the U.S. mainstream media: After a year of anti-Syria war propaganda and lies, glimmers of truth are making their way into the public's …
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Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work
In the summer of 2010, a troubling letter reached the chief ethics officer of the hospital giant HCA, written by a former nurse at one of the companyu2019s hospitals …
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Group That Sustains ALEC’s Voter Suppression Agenda Releases Sham “Study,” to Acclaim From Right-Wing Media
A right-wing group that pledged to
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US Conservatives Pile on the Excuses
The other thing that I think needs clarification is that itu2019s wrong to think of conservatives as having a single argument for their preferred policies.
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The Dark Knight’s Mushroom Cloud
If viewers accept the conceits of this essentially escapist entertainment they embrace the notion that there can be