RFK, Jr. and Rep. Alan Grayson on Healthcare Reform

RFK, Jr. and Rep. Alan Grayson on Healthcare Reform http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwxCYLFYj_o&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXngEUEt0HY&feature=channel Excellent Interview.

Fixing the Wrong Healthcare Problems

Fixing the Wrong Healthcare Problems http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALiOSnvqaRM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlxBfikH5NY&feature=channel

Climate Crisis Will Be the Challenge of New Decade

Published on Thursday, December 31, 2009 by The Irish Times Climate Crisis Will Be the Challenge of New Decade by Oisín Coghlan This is not how it was supposed to end. Internationally, this decade was supposed to give us a comprehensive global treaty to contain climate change. In Ireland, some of us allowed ourselves hope [...]

US Judge Dismisses All Charges in Blackwater Iraq Killings

Published on Thursday, December 31, 2009 by CNN US Judge Dismisses All Charges in Blackwater Iraq Killings WASHINGTON — A federal judge dismissed all charges Thursday against security contractors from the former Blackwater in connection with the 2007 deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square, ruling that prosecutors wrongly used against the men [...]

Hunger Strike for Gaza

Published on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 by CommonDreams.org Hunger Strike for Gaza by John Dear The Gaza Freedom March is truly an unprecedented, historic event for the global grassroots peace movement. This is one of the largest, if not the largest, mass international solidarity action ever undertaken. 1,362 people from 42 nations have traveled here [...]

Escalated Afghan War Brings Escalated Civilian Death

Published on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 by Agence France-Presse Escalated Afghan War Brings Escalated Civilian Death Afghan Civilian Casualties Up 10%: UN by Sardar Ahmad KABUL — Civilian deaths in Afghanistan rose more than 10 percent in the first 10 months of 2009, UN figures showed Tuesday, amid anger over the alleged killing of children [...]

Lieberman Kills Public Option

Lieberman Kills Public Option http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSZPN0TGQhQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C21JEShWPv0&feature=channel Very interesting interview.

Sick of Corporate Control Over Your Food?

Published on Monday, December 28, 2009 by Firedoglake Sick of Corporate Control Over Your Food? by Jill Richardson Have you ever played Monopoly? You know how it goes. It’s pretty fun for a while, until one player puts hotels and Boardwalk and Park Place and then amasses crazy amounts of money while the other play [...]

One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists

Published on Monday, December 28, 2009 by TruthDig.com One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists by Chris Hedges Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites [...]

Tsunami Survivors Fight for Land Rights

Published on Sunday, December 27, 2009 by YES! Magazine Tsunami Survivors Fight for Land Rights Five years ago, the Indian Ocean tsunami allowed resort developers in Thailand to push indigenous coastal communities off their land. Villages are fighting back—and winning legal rights to their homes. by Robert Reynolds Thailand’s Andaman coast was flattened by the [...]