This is Reform?

by Bob Herbert, New York Times It’s never a contest when the interests of big business are pitted against the public interest. So if we manage to get health care “reform” this time around it will be the kind of reform that benefits the very people who have given us a failed system, and thus [...]

The Lanny Davis disease and America’s health care debate

( “centrist whores” ) by Glenn Greenwald, Salon After Tom Daschle was selected to be Barack Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services and chief health care adviser, Matt Taibbi wrote:  ”In Washington there are whores and there are whores, and then there is Tom Daschle.”  One could easily have added:  ”And then there’s Lanny Davis.”  Davis frequently injects [...]

Young Turk Starts to See…

Yes Turk.  Obama has sold us out. Long, long ago. The only problem is his assertion that the way to fix this is the formation of a “third party”… I guess he forgot about Philip Zelikow and the Help America Vote Act (read as “The Diebold, “We Own the Elections”, Electronic Voting Fraud Act”). Of [...]

Mike Huckabee bashes America on foreign soil

(Just guess which “soil”… go on… guess) by Glenn Greenwald, Salon Mike Huckabee this week traveled to a foreign country and, speaking on foreign soil, is now bashing America in front of a foreign audience: Former Arkansas governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee says the US has taken too harsh a stance against Israel on [...]

Neoliberal Obama Administration Dropping “The Brick” on America

by Scott Creighton ***UPDATE*** we can now add Iceland and Latvia to the growing list of victim nations. The European Union and International Monetary Fund have told them to replace private debts with public obligations, and to pay by raising taxes, slashing public spending and obliging citizens to deplete their savings.  FT Now they are [...]

Obama™ Backing Away from “Co-Ops” Trial Balloon

by Scott Creighton This weekend the Obama administration came out on several fronts floating the idea that they were giving up on the Public Option.  The reaction from the left wasn’t good; in fact, it was vicious.  So this morning Obama™ let their trial balloon drop like a brick and are now trying desperately to [...]

John Pilger: Empire, Obama, and the Last Taboo

John Pilger Short Version “yes. A lot of good people mobilized for Obama. But what did they demand of him?  Working to elect a democratic presidential candidate may seem like activism, but it is not.  Activism doesn’t give up.  Activism doesn’t fall silent.  Activism doesn’t rely on the opiate of hope.” “Real activism has little [...]

As Expected, The White House is Killing the “Public Option”

by Scott Creighton Never let anyone ever get away with saying that the White House had to “compromise” by giving up on the “Public Option”, or Single-Payer for that matter.   It’s just not true. Bowing to Republican pressure, President Obama’s administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the [...]

Health, Money, and Fear (an education for my brother)

Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care – Kenneth Arrow Part 1

Progressive Acquiescence and the OCO

by Scott Creighton The Great Humanitarian, Barack Obama, is allowing his Globalist infested administration to set up to run all over Central and South America. You see, with a few exceptions, the Bush Administration had their hands full creating what Condi Rice called “The New Middle East” and so they took their neoliberal “Free-market system” [...]

Global Warming ate my data

(global warming is a fraud) by Andrew Orlowski, The Register The world’s source for global temperature record admits it’s lost or destroyed all the original data that would allow a third party to construct a global temperature record. The destruction (or loss) of the data comes at a convenient time for the Climatic Research Unit [...]

National Security Alert. A Film by the CIT Investigators

Researchers Release 9/11 Pentagon Attack Report

by Sheila Casey, RCFP Among 9/11 truth activists, there is little disagreement about what happened at the World Trade Center and at Shanksville. Although it’s not possible to know all the details of what transpired until there is an independent, impartial investigation, there is wide agreement among 9/11 researchers that World Trade Center buildings 1, [...]

Fake Doctors for Obamacare! The Roxana Mayer Story

by Scott Creighton FAKE DOCTORS FOR OBAMACARE!!!! (studies show that 10 out of every 10 Obama event organizers who pretend to be a doctor to generate credibility, SUPPORT the Obama healthcare plan.) You may or may not have heard about this as of yet (I doubt it will get much airtime on the corporate media [...]

Ahhh, the old “Estimated Cost Increase Reduction” Trick

by Scott Creighton According to a recent article by Greg Palast, Big Pharma (by way of Billy Tauzin) met in secret with our president and promised to reduce their projected cost increases over the next 10 years “UP TO” a whopping 2%.  So in fact, they aren’t even guaranteeing the $80 billion dollar savings on [...]