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Insurer Targeted HIV Patients to Drop Coverage
Washington - In May, 2002, Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year old college freshman from rural South Carolina, learned he had contracted HIV. The news, of course, was devastating, but Mitchell …
The Lies of Karl Rove
Joseph Goebbels, the leading propagandist of the Third Reich, believed in the power of the lie; the greater the lie, the greater the power. Goebbels would have loved Karl …
Obama’s Regulatory Czar Deliberately Stalling Toxic Coal Waste Regulation
It may be unsettling to some that the man most responsible for overseeing coal ash regulation within the Obama administration has a track record of siding with polluters instead …
Robert Reich: Expect 10 Percent Unemployment Until 2011 (VIDEO)
The Commonwealth Club of California January 22, 2010
Victory at Last?
Take a moment with this. That is the cover of Newsweek from the first week of March, the month in which we will mark the seventh anniversary of the …
Afghanistan Enacts Law That Gives War Criminals Blanket Immunity
A law that provides blanket immunity and pardons former members of Afghanistan’s armed factions for war crimes and human rights abuses committed prior to December 2001 was quietly enacted …
Stop Mistreating Working Women!
Although the global recession has had a serious impact on working men and women alike, two new reports make clear that women in the United States and throughout the …
Love Will Rule
As I was reading recent editorials by mainstream journalists, I was struck by their inability to transcend Old School political logic. Their thinking appears to be stuck in the …
Charity CEO’s Get Rich by Taking From the Poor
The greed and selfishness that the free market capitalist economy inspires seem to impact every area of social and commercial interaction in consenting societies. It's not just Wall Street …
Experts’ Biggest Fear: New Dodd Bill Won’t Stop Another Meltdown, “Epidemic” of Wall Street Fraud
The political jousting since Sen. Chris Dodd proposed new financial reforms on Monday seems at first to be just another Washington ideological rift: liberals favoring regulating an industry, and …