by Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch The current health care “debate” shows how far gone representative government is in the United States. Members of Congress represent the powerful interest groups that fill their campaign coffers, not the people who vote for them. The health care bill is not about health care. It is about protecting and increasing the profits of the insurance companies. The main feature of the health care bill is the “individual mandate,” which requires everyone in Ame
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Posted by Carol Jenkins on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Filed in Blogging · Add a comment Disruption of the health care town hall meetings has triggered some rich debate about free speech in the U.S. In these discussions, CODEPINK has been referenced several times as the group that has most often tested the boundaries of free speech. Over the years, we’ve been chided and insulted by the media, Members of Congress, former Press Secretaries, and even President Bush himself. However, when
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D et amerikanska högerns generalangrepp på president Obama och hans försök att införa allmän sjukförsäkring i USA blir allt våldsammare. Såhär skriver representanthusets ordförande Nancy Pelosi i ett melj jag just fick tidigare idag: As you’ve probably seen in the news, special interest attack groups are stirring up partisan mobs with lies about health reform, and it’s getting ugly. Across the country, members of Congress who support reform are being shouted down, physically assaulted, hu
Ten members of Congress spent $500,000 – according to Wall Street Journal estimates - on an 11-day global warming fact finding mission over New Year’s 2008. Related posts: Congressman visits Bermuda on Uighur fact-finding trip and taxpayer-paid boondoggle Most members of Congress are corrupt. But we like them more than we used to. They’re horrified, but not Gorified. 54% think media exaggerates global warming
To study Global Warming we must warm the globe WASHINGTON — When 10 members of Congress wanted to study climate change, they did more than just dip their toes into the subject: They went diving and snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef. They also rode a cable car through the Australian rain forest, visited a penguin rookery and flew to the South Pole. The 11-day trip — with six spouses traveling along as well — took place over New Year’s 2008. Details are only now coming to light as part o
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