25 June 2009
The rise of single-payer health care
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David Swanson
Single-payer health care supporters rally in Los Angeles in April. (Photo: Getty Images)

Health care reform plans are being drafted and passed around on both sides of Capitol Hill, but the plan with the greatest number of...
24 June 2009
Trading press events for votes: What should press do?
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David Swanson
On Tuesday my local newspaper reported on an event here in town on Monday. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer had come down to Charlottesville and spoken publicly with local Congressman Tom Perriello, generating a story and big color photo...
22 June 2009
U.S. government threatens to prosecute waterboarding
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David Swanson
We've been lobbying the Department of Justice all these months without realizing that the key to justice lay in the Department of the Interior, and specifically in the National Park Service, which has told activist Steve Lane he will be...
22 June 2009
Gutting the health care plan: the scorpion and the Congress
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Paul Loeb
Will serious health reform meet the fate of the scorpion and the turtle? In that fable, the scorpion pleads with the turtle to carry him across a river. The turtle resists, fearing the scorpion’s sting, but the scorpion reassures him that...
11 June 2009
The Omnibus CYA Act of 2009
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David Swanson
A healthy rivalry between the branches of government is the soul of our republic, so when the Senate's proposed ban on releasing photos and videos of torture fell short of completely covering things up, the White House proposed allowing...
11 June 2009
Words and war
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Norman Solomon
It takes at least tacit faith in massive violence to believe that after three decades of horrendous violence in Afghanistan, upping the violence there will improve the situation.

Despite the pronouncements from high...

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