A federal judge in Florida has ruled all parts of the health care reform legislation passed by Congress last year unconstitutional, handing a victory to the Republican and tea party elements that have taken steps to overturn the law from the moment President Obama signed it. The ruling comes as Republicans in Congress have passed [...]
“IN THIS CASE, NO INHERENT DANGER WAS PRESENT, AND SO I FIND YOU GUILTY.“ (Photo courtesy of “Jonesblog” http://prometheus.med.utah.edu ) (Common Dreams) Words of a judge in Nevada, in convicting and sentencing to “time served” Jesuit priest and peace activist John Dear and 12 others who “trespassed” on Creech AFB to protest deaths from drone [...]
New Egyptian vice president Omar Suleiman, appointed days ago by embattled President/dictator Hosni Mubarak as a means to quell the protests that have riveted the world and rocked the country, is well known to the United States and to those documenting American abuses in the ongoing “war on terror.” Before being tapped as the first [...]
New Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich, a popular establishment figure within the GOP and a former Fox News TV host, finds himself and his administration embroiled in a racially-tinged controversy surrounding the make-up and diversity of his cabinet, as well as comments made by the governor in regard to the situation. Kasich has filled out 22 [...]
U.S. GIVES (SORT OF) GREEN LIGHT TO PROTEST IN TUNISIA, BUT A DEFINITE GREEN ONE FOR EGYPTIAN SUPPRESSION OF THE PROTESTS THERE. (EPA/Pool) (Global Research) Anti-government protests sweeping across Arab states of the Middle East produce a “two-track” policy of U.S. State Department as support is offered for a proto-democratic uprising in Tunisia. Where Egypt [...]
House Republicans are preparing to introduce legislation that would literally abolish Medicare, converting the program by the year 2021 into a system of vouchers provided by the government and given to seniors as a means for them to purchase private health insurance on their own. The eligibility age for receiving what is currently Medicare would [...]
EMPIRE BURLESQUE OPENS A SPECTACULAR NEW ACT CALLED “UPRISING ON THE NILE.” (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters) (Chris Floyd) Tuesday’s street demonstrations in Egypt introduce a startling new possibility of a rupture in U.S. foreign policy agenda which is what Chris Floyd calls that of the “American dominationists” in the Middle East as corrupt and Israel-promoting U.S. Arab [...]
Republicans were not happy with President Obama’s promise in his State of the Union Tuesday night to rebuff any attempts — for now — to cut Social Security benefits or raise the retirement age, although he did not specifically mention fighting efforts to adjust when benefits kick in. The president called for a “bipartisan solution” [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION: NOT “SATISFYINGLY PROGRESSIVE.” (Reuters) (The Nation) The Nation’s John Nichols grades the president’s State of the Union and finds some things to applaud but many more that ought to be troubling for progressives. What Nichols calls Obama’s “Dwight Eisenhower speech” was big on unity, hopeful rhetoric and a supposedly [...]
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