The 2006 Social Security Trustees Report, which includes the Medicare program, was released on May 1. The trustees projected the year 2040 as the depletion date of the Social Security trust fund versus 2041 in the 2005 report.
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Have you ever heard someone try to argue that the Iraq War was a mistake but that now the proper course is to continue the mistake a bit longer or to carefully end it in a long and complicated way that could take months or years? Have you...
I just read an excellent book from http://www.endthewartour.org called "10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military." Personally I was never attracted to the military because I could never...
Please! Would somebody please tell me that the corporate news media is talking about U.S. war crimes in Iraq in addition to the civilians killed in Haditha?!
I can only hope that my fellow citizens are not being told that...
Iraq. For those of us steeped in fighting our government's occupation of Iraq, the list of descriptors for the war roll off our tongue in our debates on subways and in supermarket lines: illegal, immoral, unjust, unnecessary... Visual...
Dotty Lynch's May 30th editorial on the CBS News web site asks the plaintive question, “Where are all the young people?” who should be protesting this ugly war. The question ought to be, “Where was Dotty Lynch and the rest of corporate-...