Monday, July 13, 2009

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We're posting them at our re-designed e-news blog ! Click here to check it out. Read what the alternative media has to say about corpor...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Insurance, health interests fill Baucus' coffers

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By Mike Dennison, Billings Gazette , State Bureau, published June 14 As Sen. Max Baucus has taken the lead on health reform legislation in t...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Peru Suspends Decree That Fueled Amazon Violence

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compiled from reports by Agence France Presse, Indymedia, and Democracy Now! Peruvian lawmakers suspended one of several controversial laws ...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Pennsylvania Town Fights Big Coal on Mining Rights

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by John Hurdle. Published by Reuters June 15. A small Pennsylvania town is trying to ban coal mining in a battle being played out across th...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Up in Smoke: Health insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks

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by Desiree Evans, published at Facing South , the Journal of the Institute for Southern Studies A recent study published in the New England ...

Single payer health care is the only way to control costs

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by Dr. Peter Mahr Our current healthcare system is a mess for both those who carry health insurance and those without. Only a single payer n...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Max Baucus, the "Senator for K Street," Should Not Be Deciding Health Care for America

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by Kevin Zeese. Published by the Baltimore Chronicle on May 31 Why aren’t single payer advocates allowed to testify before Baucus’ committe...
Saturday, June 6, 2009

Doctor Critical of Baucus Promotes Single-Payer Plan

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by Mike Dennison. Published on June 6 by  The Billings Gazette (Montana) . Maryland psychiatrist Carol Paris is calling herself one of the ...

Facing Down the Private Insurance Industry

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by Robert Kuttner. Published on June 4 by T he Boston Globe Despite budget pressures, President Obama has not backed off his commitment to u...

Media Quarantine of Single-Payer Continues: Fifteen Years Later, Public Health Insurance Still Taboo

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by Julie Hollar & Isabel Macdonald. Published on Thursday, June 4, 2009 by Extra! , a publication of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting....
Thursday, June 4, 2009

Baucus: Single payer advocates won't be invited to speak

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by David Swanson. Posted June 3 on AfterDowningStreet.org Senator Max Baucus met Wednesday with advocates for single-payer healthcare, inclu...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Tap Water Worries Have You Buying Bottled? Safeway Loves You!

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by Jonah Owen-Lamb. Published June 2 by the Merced (California) Sun-Star , and posted on Commondreams.org   Wells are drying up across the c...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The Looting of America

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by Greg Coleridge, Ohio American Friends Service Committee An accurate term to describe the causes of and prescriptions to the current econo...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Fasting for our future, climate activist enter fifth week of hunger strike

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A hunger strike for strong climate legislation has entered its fifth week just as a weak climate action bill begins its Congressional mark-u...
Friday, May 15, 2009

The Cure for Layoffs: Fire the Boss!

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by Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis. Posted Thursday, May 14 on CommonDreams.org In 2004, we made a documentary called The Take about Argentina...