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News in Brief: Health Insurance Executives Cash in While Planning Rate Hikes, and More
According to a report from Health Care for America Now and as reported in The Los Angeles Times, the executives of the top five for-profit health insurance companies raked …
Social Security Coalition: Don’t Cut It
Over 100 state and national organizations representing over 50 million Americans has formed the Strengthen Social Security coalition to send a strong message to politicians who are on a …
Gareth Porter | Serial Denial and the Permanent War System
Two months ago, I wrote that the Obama administration and the U.S. command in Afghanistan faced an “Iraq 2006 moment” in the second half of 2010 - a collapse …
Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan: Beyond the Body Count
The United Nations announced on Tuesday that the rate of civilian casualties in Afghanistan is reaching an all-time high as the US-led occupiers escalate a war that has ravaged …
The Semantics of Semiwar: Andrew Bacevich Takes on American Militarism
For those not familiar with his work, former Army Col. Andrew Bacevich might seem an unlikely figure to spearhead some of the most incisive criticism of American foreign and …
Jim Hightower | New Outrages Keep Gushing From BP
With BP's well capped and CEO Tony Hayward exiled to Russia, perhaps you thought that surely there will be no additional revelations about BP to enrage you. But now …
Killer Summer Heatwaves, Air Pollution and Winger Doctors
"The average death rate in the city during normal times is between 360 to 380 people a day. Today, we have around 700. This is no secret. Everyone thinks …
The Bad Old Days (3)
Someone once told me that I'm the kind of guy who runs toward a fight. He said it like it was a bad thing - pretty much because I …
The Bad Old Days (2)
Someone once told me that I'm the kind of guy who runs toward a fight. He said it like it was a bad thing - pretty much because I …
William J. Astore | In Place of Mental Health Care, Are Some Troops Being Evangelized?
Yesterday, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) and Veterans for Common Sense sent a startling letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. It alleged that the military has sent …