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Congress v. Big Pharma by James Ridgeway, | December 15, 2006
As the drug industry cozies up to Democrats, real reform may be DOA—but watch for a few killer investigations. read more »History Repeats Itself: Your Letters by TomPaine.com Readers, | December 15, 2006
From the '60s to Iraq, from Third World debt to universal health care, all things old are new again in this week's letters. read more »Make It Happen: Health Care For All by Jacob S. Hacker, | December 13, 2006
We can bring business and workers together on a plan for universal care. read more »The Risk Shift We Can't Afford by Bill Scher and Isaiah J. Poole, OurFuture.org | December 12, 2006
For less than half of the cost of the Bush administration tax cuts, the federal government could cover its share of the cost of a health care system that insures nearly all Americans. That is according to Yale political science professor Jacob S. Hacker, who discussed the nation's broken health care system Tuesday in a speech at the Economic Policy Institute, sponsored by the Campaign for America's Future. read more »Bush's Other Losing War: AIDS by Doug Ireland, | December 1, 2006
On World AIDS Day, Democrats should start to reverse Bush's deadly AIDS policies. read more »Democratic To-Do List by David Corn, | November 8, 2006
Now the Dems must act quickly to secure public opinion. read more »Budget Scare Stories by Dean Baker, | November 7, 2006
Don't believe the hype that Medicare and Social Security need a draconian fix. read more »So What If You're Born In The U.S.A.? by Alexandra Walker, OurFuture.org | November 3, 2006
You don't have to be a doctor to know that the first year of a baby's life, indeed the first weeks, are critical for its healthy development. That's why the government has historically taken on the responsibility of subsidizing health care for infants of low-income mothers, regardless of citizenship status. Not anymore. read more »Who's Buying Congress Now by Nancy Watzman, | November 3, 2006
Corporate interests are spending big to get both parties to work for them, not for working families. read more »Return To Reality by Michael Stebbins, | November 2, 2006
After Tuesday, we may have a Congress that respects rational, science-based policy over ideological politics. read more »
The Latest
Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont over GMO Labelling, alternet.org | April 15, 2012
After reading Richard Eskow's article about Goldman Sachs getting a 'pat on the wrist' after committing offences that in the past could have shut them down I couldn't help but draw a link with this article about the influence Monsanto wields over the law more »
Report: Worldwide Opposition to Monsanto Growing, commondreams.org | April 5, 2012
(photo: Alexis Baden-Mayer / Millions Against Monsanto)La Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth International, and Combat Monsanto, the groups who issued more »New Study Finds Skyrocketing Increase in Autism, commondreams.org | March 30, 2012
A just released report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that children diagnosed with Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) had a skyrocketing increase of 78% compared to results from a decade ago. more »The GM Debate The US Is Not Having, publicserviceeurope.com | November 13, 2011
The submission by successive US administrations and congress to the GM Lobby, illustrated by silence and suppression of arguments against GM proliferation, is gradually being mirrored in Europe. There is life in the old democracy dog yet, but for how much longer? The EU Commission is trying to dispense with the rule of law. Something the US administration did years ago. more »
Transgenic Cotton Harbours Hidden Dangers, ipsnews.net | October 24, 2011
A disturbing report from Mexico about the out of control spread of Geneticaly Modified species into the food chain. There will be no chances left soon to take a hold of this brewing biological disaster. more »
Health Care: Another One Bites The Dust, Huffington Post | October 15, 2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Friday pulled the plug on a major program in the president's signature health overhaul law – a long-term care insurance plan dogged from the beginning by doubts over its financial solvency. more »Monsanto Herbicide: Why Is Damning Evidence ignored, alternet.org | May 14, 2011
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Lawsuit seeks to invalidate Monsanto’s GMO patents, globalresearch.ca | April 18, 2011
At last a challenge to the Monsanto madness, its been a long time coming.....
“A new invention to poison people … is not a patentable invention.” Lowell v. Lewis, 1817
more »Argentina's Roundup Human Tragedy, i-sis.org.uk | February 5, 2011
According to the US EPA, Monsanto's weedkiller Roundup is “relatively low in toxicity, and without carcinogenic or teratogenic effects.”.
In Argentina science has proven this wrong, and a tragedy has occurred. This is especially important because of the USDA's approval of GM Roundup Ready (RR) Alfalfa for unregulated introduction to the US food chain. more »
TARP expected to cost U.S. only $25 billion, CBO says, The Washington Post | November 30, 2010
The Troubled Assets Relief Program, which was widely reviled as a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street titans, is now expected to cost the federal government a mere $25 billion - the equivalent of less than six months of emergency jobless benefits. more »
