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January 2006



A DANGEROUS BETRAYAL

Monday, 30 January 2006 6:37 P GMT-07
Jim Hightower writes about "the WalMartization of America," the dissolving of America's "social contract" between the working class and corporations and the "betrayal of the middle class."

BORED? TRY BOROWITZ

Sunday, 29 January 2006 1:59 P GMT-07
I don't know about you but I'm one of those people who think a sense of humor is essential for survival.  I'm a fan, especially, of good satire.  Good satire is funny, but also carries a pointed and serious message.  I just recently fo
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DRs NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN

Thursday, 26 January 2006 3:09 P GMT-07
Up until very recently any hope the the U.S. might scrap its broken-down, employer-based, privatized health care system with a less costly, fairer and more comprehensive system of National Health Insurance, has seemed dim indeed. In the last year or

HERE'S THAT "F-WORD" AGAIN!

Friday, 20 January 2006 4:58 P GMT-07
Continuing with the theme of the last two blogs I'm going to repost another of my previous blogs that I consider a "must read."  As I said yesterday, I am more and more convinced that the Bush administration is leading us in the direction of a fasc
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THE NEW FASCISM

Thursday, 19 January 2006 2:49 P GMT-07
It is a whispered fascism, not yet marching down your street or pounding upon your door in the dead of night. But it is here, and it is laying deep roots. We must listen beyond the whispered fascism of today to the shouted fascism of tomorrow. We mus

NEO-CONS OR NEO-FASCISTS?

Tuesday, 17 January 2006 4:59 P GMT-07
Anyone who reads my blogs on a semi-regular basis will know that I have been insisting -- ever since I first came across Rev. Loehr's sermon -- that this group should more rightly be referred to as neo-fascists rather than as neocons. They are not i

A CASE OF "ERRONEOUS RENDITION"

Friday, 13 January 2006 2:35 P GMT-07
The following is an account by an innocent man of his experience of being detained, tortured, kidnapped (instead of extraordinary rendition it should be called "erroneous rendition), and held in squalid conditions for 5 months. Khaled El-Masri says

"BROWNIES" ARE HAZARDOUS TO OUR HEALTH

Thursday, 12 January 2006 5:36 P GMT-07
One of the worst sins of George Bush and his imperial rule has been his egregious practice of cronyism -- the practice of replacing competent professionals in federal agencies, with unqualified and for the most part incompetent political friends.

THE SAGA BEHIND SAGO

Saturday, 7 January 2006 3:23 P GMT-07
The Sago mine disaster in West Virginia is another tragedy in which the clear trail leads back to the Republican administration of George Bush.  As I've mentioned here before, the gang in the White House and their supporters in Congress are dead set

SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL

Wednesday, 4 January 2006 5:11 P GMT-07
Dramatist Richard Sheridan's play "The School For Scandal," was billed as a "comedy of manners." when it first appeared in 1777.  It's title is an apt description of the Bush Administration and its GOP allies in Con

TRUTH ON THE SCAFFOLD

Tuesday, 3 January 2006 1:11 P GMT-07
Over the past five years it has often felt like truth was going to be "forever on the scaffold and wrong forever on the throne" when contemplating the juggernaut of Bush's imperial government. In the last month or two "forever" seems perhaps out of

A TALE OF TWO HEALTH PLANS

Monday, 2 January 2006 5:37 P GMT-07
The private insurance system that we have here in the U.S. is hugely expensive to users and to employers -- far more expensive than health insurance needs to be -- and leave tens of thousands of both users and employers unable to afford coverage. T