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Senate’s Tax on High-Cost Health Plans: Democratic Suicide Pact?
A much-vaunted Senate proposal to tax high-cost health plans, once seen as all but inevitable, came under new attacks Wednesday from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, members of the Democratic …
Three Approved GMO’s Linked to Organ Damage
In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with …
Lieberman Tanks
Want to know how far Joe Lieberman has fallen in the wake of the health care vote last month? Barack Obama's approval rating with Connecticut Republicans is higher than …
Lieberman Tanks (2)
Want to know how far Joe Lieberman has fallen in the wake of the health care vote last month? Barack Obama's approval rating with Connecticut Republicans is higher than …
Abandoning EFCA Is Obama’s Political Suicide: Lessons From Three Presidents on Workers’ Rights
Whatever happened to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)? Is it dead? I remember sitting in a meeting last May with Senate staff who said that after Al …
The Best Chance Yet for Legalizing Marijuana
Tax Cannabis 2010 faces hurdles as it prepares for its test on the California ballot next November. It's Dec. 14 and news that the Regulate, Control and Tax …
Plotting the Decade on an X-Y Axis
How do you best measure a decade, and what do you measure if you do? With the close of a decade, it's invariably time to take stock …
America the Traumatized: How 13 Events of the Decade Made Us the PTSD Nation
The Millennial Decade screwed with our heads and destroyed our national identity. Are we in for a cataclysmic century?
Inside the Military-Industrial-Media Complex: Impacts on Movement for Social Justice
This article has been previously published at Media Freedom Intl. Among the most important corporate media censored news stories of the past decade, one must be that over …
House Passes $154 Billion Jobs Bill; Progressives Launch New Coalition to Fight for More Aid
With heavy defections from Blue Dog Democrats, the House of Representatives still narrowly passed Wednesday evening, 217 to 212, a $154 billion jobs package. It included funds for states …