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Froma Harrop | Coming Between You and Your Doctor
The lights must dim around Google's data-storage centers every time someone does a search for “government bureaucrat coming between you and your doctor.” Foes of the Democrats' health-reform proposals …
Rachel Corrie Case Stirs Fresh Pain and Hope
Haifa, Israel - Shortly before Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003, she said in a video interview that she marveled at …
Antiwar Activists Plan Nationwide Protests to Mark Seventh Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
Antiwar activists are gearing up to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq with a weeklong series of events to protest the ongoing occupation of the …
Clinton Call to Netanyahu: Israel Settlement Move a “Deeply Negative Signal“
Tel Aviv, Israel - A day after Vice President Joe Biden ended a fence-mending trip marred by the Israel settlement issue, tension hung over the embattled city of Jerusalem …
Building Settlements, Not Peace
Jerusalem - Had Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu been a devotee of Robert Burns, he would now be tearing up the pessimistic view of the legendary Scottish nationalist poet …
The Tonton Macoutes: The Central Nervous System of Haiti
A Malediction on Haitian Society
Pakistan: Suicide Bomb Attacks in Lahore Cap Particularly Grim Week
Suicide blasts rocked Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore for the second time this week, killing at least 45 people Friday and rebuffing notions that recent arrests and killings of …
Robert Reich | The Sham Recovery
Are we finally in a recovery? Who's “we,” kemosabe? Big global companies, Wall Street, and high-income Americans who hold their savings in financial instruments are clearly doing better. As …
Final Health Care Bill Vote Due “As Early As Next Week” (2)
Nearly a year after Democrats introduced legislation to reform the health care industry - first by flirting with the prospect of having a government-run program to compete with private …
Final Health Care Bill Vote Due As Early As Next Week
Nearly a year after Democrats introduced legislation to reform the health care industry - first by flirting with the prospect of having a government-run program to compete with private …