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So why are 46,000,000 people uninsured and millions more under-insured?  Because our healthcare nonsystem is run by profiteering, parasitic, blood-sucking insurance companies whose main goal is ALWAYS to maximize profit for their shareholders and Wall Street, not provide healthcare.  They maximize profits by DENYING health insurance to those who need it the most and DUMPING their own policyholders when their […]

The Top Ten Meanest Cities by Dollars and Sense July 15, 2009 Read the full report

House committee approves Kucinich amendment which would allow states to create single-payer systems.

“I oppose H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.  The reason is simple.  It won’t address the problem.  In fact, it might make the problem worse. “It sets targets that are too weak, especially in the short term, and sets about meeting those targets through Enron-style accounting methods.  It gives new life to one of the […]

Joan Baez adds a verse in Farsee for Iranians.   Bon Jovi joins Iranian superstar Andy Madadian.

The Obama Administration is not only continuing the Cheney/Bush clique’s assault on the Constitution, especially the right to habeas corpus; it is even breaking new ground.  Not even Cheney/Bush claimed they could indefinitely imprison people after a court had found them innocent!   Glenn Greenwald:  Obama contemplates executive order for detention without charges (and be sure to see Rachel Maddow’s […]

I highly recommend “Food Inc.,” a documentary film about the American food supply, and its domination by the agricultural-industrial complex.  Monsanto, ADM and a handful of other heavily-subsidized companies have gained near-total control over the food most Americans eat, with catastrophic consequences for personal and public health, the environment and even our civil liberties.  Incidentally, the film does not push vegetarianism — […]

On Tuesday Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew were forcibly dragged to Israel. ‘This is an outrageous violation of international […]

Several cartoonists have noticed the difference in how Americans and Iranians respond to stolen elections.  Chris Hedges traces the history of US-Iranian relations from the time the US crushed Iranian democracy in 1953 to the present. “We reject the American way of life” Chris Hedges, Truthdig “Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away”Posted on Alternet 6/23/2009 The home […]

Georgia WAND (Women’s Action for New Directions) invites you to a rare opportunity to see and hear Representative (D-CA9) Barbara Lee this Sunday, June 28. Representative Lee, Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and past Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus will be on hand to sign her book, Renegade for Peace & Justice: Congresswoman Barbara Lee Speaks for Me.  Lee is […]

If you’re depending on Democratic senators on the take from health insurance companies to provide “affordable, quality health care for ALL Americans”, the news is not very good.   If that phrase sounds familiar, it’s because President Obama has repeatedly said “affordable, quality healthcare for all Americans” is one of his three guiding principles for healthcare reform.  But the White House now […]

Howard Zinn and Michael Lerner agree on this:  Obama is more likely to do the right thing if we step up the pressure on him.   Howard Zinn:  We are citizens; Obama is a politician. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/16-0   Michael Lerner:  Obama’s pragmatism will backfire http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/29/barack-obama-politics-agenda

The Obama campaign, which continues under the moniker of “Organizing for America,” will be holding community meetings around the country this Saturday, June 6, to begin organizing a push for healthcare reform.  The posted agenda for the meeting is (1) watch a televised pep talk by President Obama; and (2) make plans on how to reach out in your community […]

Rep. Conyers, the author of House Resolution 676, will speak on the need for a single-payer healthcare system which will provide improved Medicare for all!    Wednesday, May 27,  6:30-8:30 pm   IBEW Auditorium   501 Pulliam St. SW, Atlanta 30312    The IBEW Building is the white building with the peach on top south of downtown Atlanta just west […]

So what really happened when Obama met Netanyahu last week?   You’d never know from reading The New York Times‘ account.  The Times (like much of the corporate media) is often a mouthpiece for pro-Israeli propaganda and David Bromwich explains how it distorted its coverage of the meeting to support Israel’s rush to attack Iran.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bromwich/inew-york-timesi-falsifie_b_205201.html.  Perhaps you remember how […]