Do not resuscitate the “public option” by Dr. Andy Coates

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Dr. Andy Coates, a member of Physicians for a National Health Program and steward in the Public Employees Federation in New York, argues that it’s wrong to push for a “public option” now that Barack Obama is trying to restart health care legislation. SocialistWorker.org Feb. 26, 2010 LIKE INITIATING CPR on a patient who [...]

Afghanistan Awash with U.S. cash and U.S. blood by Dennis Kucinich

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Feb 26, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement about the ongoing war in Afghanistan: “The Washington Post reports that nearly one billion dollars per year in cash, suspected to include U.S. aid, opium receipts or both, is moving from Afghanistan to Dubai, where friends and [...]

What happened to health reform?

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews February 25, 2010 A reaction from a nurse and a doctor to a “Bipartisan Meeting on Health Reform” Donna Smith is a community-based journalist, organizer and legislative advocate for National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association and for the single-payer, Medicare for all reform. Dr Mandy Cohen Executive Director of Doctors for [...]

Palast hunts the vultures for BBC

by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 26 February, 2010 see Liberian leader urges MPs to back action against vulture funds by Heather Stewart and Greg Palast

How Prime Minister Hotoyama Can Stop The “Japan Bashing” By Mike Whitney

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Mike Whitney Information Clearing House February 25, 2010 Japan should not allow itself to be publicly humiliated by the world’s biggest human rights abuser. It has many tools at its disposal which can be used to persuade sanctimonious senators and flannel-mouth congressmen that they need to stop their belligerent grandstanding for the cameras. [...]