By Charles Hugh Smith
December 25, 2009
The bail-out of Wall Street and the banking and mortgage industries is not monetary policy; it is a massive transfer of wealth from future taxpayers to the Financial Power Elite.
The monetary-policy terminology of “quantitative easing” and “bail-out” is a masterstroke of propaganda, for it purposefully masks an […]
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By Ellen Brown
December 24, 2009
Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is quoted as warning two centuries ago:
“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship. . . . The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom […]
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Filed under: Healthcare, Opinion, Politics
By Ralph E. Stone
December 24, 2009
What happened to the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009? Did it fall through the cracks along with the public option? Because there is unlikely to be a public option in the forthcoming healthcare legislation, Congress must repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act antitrust exemption for the health […]
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Filed under: Healthcare, Law, Opinion, Politics
“Obama wants to do George Bush one better by continuing the worst of his policies,
enact more of his own, and destroy the middle class to turn America
into Guatamala with ruling elites governing a nation of serfs.”
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By Stephen Lendman
Author’s Note: Part II concludes an account of Obama’s betrayal, not promised change.
December 23, 2009
Obamacare […]
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Authors Geoffrey King (left) and Sunny Angulo, with City Attorney Dennis Herrera,
pose for a picture during a release party event for their new book,
Such a Bitter Sweet Day: Marriage Equality in the Wake of Prop 8.
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By Luke Thomas
December 21, 2009
Co-authors Geoffrey King and Sunny Angulo held a release party last week for […]
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“In Obama’s America, only the privileged have rights,
not people of color, the poor, and growing numbers going hungry,
without jobs, and other life’s essentials his budget allocations won’t fund.”
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By Stephen Lendman
December 21, 2009
Promising change after eight George Bush and Republican dominated years, Barack Obama won the most sweeping non-incumbent victory in over 50 […]
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Filed under: Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Homelessness, Immigration, Labor, News, Opinion, Politics, War
Houston Mayor-elect Annise Parker
is the first openly gay activist to be elected mayor of a major US city.
Photo courtesy AnniseParker.com
By Larry Bush, guest columnist
December 20, 2009
Somewhere in Houston, a few lucky people are pulling out of their closets a T-shirt that reads “Oddwads and Queers.” In 1979, that’s how one Houston city council candidate described […]
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Former Treasure Island Executive Director Tony Hall.
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By Tony Hall, former San Francisco Supervisor and Executive Director for Treasure Island
December 19, 2009
I truly wish for the sake of all San Franciscans that there was a good, honest and realistic development project forthcoming for Treasure Island.
As the former Executive Director for Treasure Island, I […]
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Filed under: Land Use, Opinion, Politics
Change we can’t believe in.
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By Jill Chapin
December 18, 2009
There are strange bedfellows aligning themselves around the country as we settle into our heated positions in the healthcare debate. Increasingly, groups and individuals don’t care with whom they agree or disagree, such is their vehemence for what they see as the wholesale sellout […]
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