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Health care and the seeds of disunity
By Saul Landau
President Obama has a rough task promoting health care that will provide coverage for most Americans and reduce the cost of this basic service so that it doesn’t bankrupt…
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Averting the worst
By Paul Krugman
From The New York Times
So it seems that we aren’t going to have a second Great Depression after all. What saved us? The answer, basically, is Big Government.
Just to…
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Pay to play is Washington’s sport of kings
$133+ million spent in 3 months to derail health care reform
By Michael Winship
From Truthout.org
As we marvel over the depths of hypocrisy and greed currently plumbed in the health…
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Life and Death: The Battle for Health Care Reform
By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com
While on Capitol Hill the legions of well-fed and well-heeled lobbyists worked feverishly to emasculate health care reform, a few hundred miles away…
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Where are the ideas?
(An answer to Carlos Alberto Montaner)
By Arturo López Levy
In the 1950s, a new word entered the dictionary: McCarthyism. A word associated with the practices of Republican Sen.…
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LAWG using Internet to end the Cuba travel ban — help by joining
Dear friends and fellow Cuba Policy Advocates,
We've been keeping up the pressure on Congress for months to end the travel ban on Cuba. The "Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act" legislation…
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The kidney broker and the money laundering
By Saul Landau
I thought of cousin Harry when I read about the July 21 bust of five New York and New Jersey orthodox rabbis along with scores of New Jersey officials. Like the…
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Health care looms; Congress goes fishing
By Bill Press
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid don't agree on everything. But, when it comes to vacation plans for August, they are all three on the same page.
As AP…
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The right way to register voters
A New York Times editorial
In the United States, the burden of registering falls squarely on voters. In countries where the government does more of the work, according to a new study,…
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Obama’s health care struggle: Waterloo or water down
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
Push finally came to shove in Washington this week as the battle for health care escalated from scattered sniper fire into all-out combat. If it all…
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