"The water won't clear up 'til we get the hogs out of the creek." -- Jim Hightower

Rick Steve's "I've been duped"

Israel's occupation of Palestine and the Media's Manipulation by the Israeli PR Machine  

GE pays no taxes on 14B profit

GE gets to have it both ways, be treated like a person yet be treated by the tax code as supra-human avoiding taxes and given a tax credit. Then they turn around and fight with their workers to deny them a share of the value created.

Woodcarver

This track is to make aware of the unjustified actions of a police officer in Seattle. On August 20, 2010 a woodcarver by the name of John T Williams was shot 4 times by officer Ian Birk who was not criminally charged by law enforcement.

The Rich Get Meaner

It was reassuring, in the midst of Wisconsin's labor strife, to see a New York Times/CBS News poll showing that many Americans sympathized with the workers.

Sanders Introduces Millionaire surtax

Bernie Sanders introduced a bill that would establish a surtax on millionaires and strip tax deductions for oil companies -- a proposal he claims would cut the deficit by about $50 billion.

BP: Beyond Punishment | The Nation

Excerpt: punitive society is not the best kind of society: there's a real virtue in forgiveness, in second chances.

The Americanization of Mental Illness

AMERICANS, particularly if they are of a certain leftward-leaning, college-educated type, worry about our country's blunders into other cultures.

The Devil and Mr. Obama

Well lookee here! An invite from my limey comrades to recap Barack Obama's first year in office. Well comrades, I can do this thing two ways. I can simply state that the great mocha hope turned out to be a Trojan horse for Wall Street and the Pentagon.

Those Who Misinterpret The Past Are Unable To Repeat It

...spotted a very interesting Rahm quote in the middle of a WaPo story on the GOP scrambling to take advantage of the Democrats' vulnerability this year:

Fannie, Freddie, and the New Red and Blue

It has become conventional wisdom, perhaps even cliche, to pin the origins of the credit crisis on the big banks or, AIG or even the practice of financial modeling.

The Senate Health Care Bill: Leave No Special Interest Behind

If the miserable Senate health care bill becomes the law of the land, it's only going to encourage the preservation of a hideously broken system. Just how broken the system is is summed up in the fate of Byron Dorgan's drug re-importation amendment.

Psychiatry's civil war -

When doctors disagree with each other, they usually couch their criticisms in careful, measured language. In the past few months, however, open conflict has broken out among the upper echelons of US psychiatry.

Georgia O'Keeffe's Love Letters

When Georgia O'Keeffe met photographer Alfred Stieglitz, sparks flew. O'Keeffe—nearly 24 years his junior—was an unknown, struggling to define her art; Stieglitz owned the famed Gallery 291, a cauldron of avant-garde art. Soon they became storied lovers.

Why capitalism fails

Since the global financial system started unraveling in dramatic fashion two years ago, distinguished economists have suffered a crisis of their own.

How marijuana became legal

When Irvin Rosenfeld, 56, picks me up at the Fort Lauderdale airport, his SUV reeks of marijuana. The vice president for sales at a local brokerage firm, Rosenfeld has been smoking 10 to 12 marijuana cigarettes a day for 38 years, he says.

UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Pub Option

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the first time yesterday suggested she may be backing off her support of the public option.

Sick and Wrong

Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world.

Taking the Movement Out of the Obama White House

First and foremost, Jones was one of the only movement progressives in a policymaking position in the Obama White House.

Money Driven Medicine: What's Wrong with America's Healthcare

"Money-Driven Medicine is one of the strongest documentaries I have seen in years and could not be more timely. The more people who see and talk about it, the more likely we are to get serious and true health care reform." -Bill Moyers

Book Review: The Roots of Contemporary Imperialism, by Valerio Volpi

Valerio Volpi's intended aim with this book is to link the constitutional structure of the United States with the installation of the prerequisites for the rise of corporate supremacy.

The Grownup's Guide to Indie Rock

There's only one viable avant-garde art form nowadays, and it's called indie rock. Think about it: Experimental film is waning; painting and sculpture routinely are borrowing from traditions. I'd guess that about 20 people seriously listen to serious music.

The Entertainment Value of Snuffing Grandma

Every day I get letters asking me to weigh in on the healthcare fracas. As if a redneck writer armed with a keyboard, a pack of smokes and all the misinformation and vitriol available on the Internet could contribute anything to the crap storm already in progress.

Last Temptation

The former mouthpiece for insurance giant Cigna divulges his role in misleading the public, the emotional day that led to his whistle-blowing, and what should really scare you.

Maddow: Public Option Dying Because Of Dems' Political Collapse (VIDEO)

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow went hard after President Obama Monday night for his willingness to give up a public health care option.

If Pot Prevented Cancer You Would Have Read About It, Right?

Two just-published studies assessing adults' risk of cancer have reported wildly divergent, and fairly extraordinary, outcomes. One study you may have read about. The other has been ignored entirely by the mainstream media. But no doubt the results of both will surprise you.

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