Truthout
Health
Unmasking the GOP’s Faith-Based Economics
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)"I will do all I can to help you," Montague answered. "And you must be very severe with me," Lucy continued, "and not let me spend …
|
OccupySF Inhabits Vacant Turk Street Building
Tonight Occupy SF, through the OccupySF Commune, has inhabited a vacant building on Turk St. for the purpose of creating a community center in the spirit of this building's …
Romney’s Top Five Assaults on Women’s Health
Mitt Romney is not doing well with women voters. A new USA TODAY/Gallup poll shows that President Obama is faring much better than Mitt Romney in the swing states …
|
From Prisoner to Parliament in Myanmar
Yangon, Myanmar - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy advocate silenced for two decades by Myanmar's generals with house arrests and overturned elections, assumed a new role in …
Bill Moyers | The Real Costs of War
Most discussion about the “costs of war” focuses on two numbers: dollars spent and American troops who gave their lives. A decade into the war on terror, those official …
|
Who Benefits From the Organized Violence of War?
U.S. Army soldiers in four-wheel vehicles wait as bundles of fuel are air delivered by a C-17 Globemaster III to Forward Operating Base Waza K'wah in Paktika province, Afghanistan, …
|
Current TV Fires Keith Olbermann, Replaces Him With Eliot Spitzer; Olbermann to Sue
Keith Olbermann. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad / The New York Times) The New York Times’ Brian Stelter breaks the news that Current TV has let go Keith Olbermann, and will …
|
A Health Law at Risk Gives Insurers Pause
As the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the federal health care law, one option that had seemed unthinkable to its designers and supporters now seems at least possible: …
|
All Parties Ignore the One Way to Reduce Health Care Costs: Single-Payer
In a recent full-page newspaper advertisement, IBM touted massive medical savings through computerization. It's a promise they've made before, starting with a report issued in 1961. If only these …
Generals Who Don’t Just Fade Away: The Newest in Self-Dealing Maneuvers
Gen. Douglas MacArthur was one of the major generals of World War II and Korea, but he will also always be known as one of the generals who was …