JoshuaSkye
September 08, 2009
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Dennis Kucinich: HR676 Medicare for all! + Countdown: Lawrence O’Donnell
Day: September 8, 2009
Countdown: Lawrence O’Donnell + Rep. Edwards to insist on public option
Countdown Will Obama bring back the fighting spirit to health care – Sept 8, 2009
admindonenet
September 08, 2009
Lawrence O’Donnell breaks down the dance. How congress will lose “The Public Option”
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Rep. Edwards to insist on public option
Rep. Donna Edwards says she will only vote for health care reform that includes a robust public option
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Health Care Reform: Sick and Wrong by Matt Taibbi
Will Obama Split the Democratic Party in Two? By Timothy V. Gatto
Spanish judge resumes torture case against six senior Bush lawyers by Andy Worthington
by Andy Worthington
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.andyworthington.co.uk
8 Sept. 2009
The Spanish newspaper Público reported exclusively on Saturday that Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.
Back in March, Judge Garzón announced that he was planning to investigate the six prime architects of the Bush administration’s torture policies — former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; John Yoo, a former lawyer in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, who played a major role in the preparation of the OLC’s notorious “torture memos”; Douglas Feith, the former undersecretary of defense for policy; William J. Haynes II, the Defense Department’s former general counsel; Jay S. Bybee, Yoo’s superior in the OLC, who signed off on the August 2002 “torture memos”; and David Addington, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff.
US Hypocrisy Astonishes the World By Paul Craig Roberts
By Paul Craig Roberts
September 07, 2009 “Information Clearing House”
Americans have lost their ability for introspection, thereby revealing their astounding hypocrisy to the world.
US War Secretary Robert Gates has condemned the Associated Press and a reporter, Julie Jacobson, embedded with US troops in Afghanistan, for taking and releasing a photo of a US Marine who was wounded in action and died from his injury.
The photographer was on patrol with the Marines when they came under fire. She found the courage and presence of mind to do her job. Her reward is to be condemned by the warmonger Gates as “insensitive.” Gates says her employer, the Associated Press, lacks “judgment and common decency.”
The American Legion jumped in and denounced the Associated Press for a “stunning lack of compassion and common decency.”
Broader Strategy: West’s Afghan War Targets Russia, China, Iran by Rick Rozoff
by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/message/41555
September 8, 2009
The United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are expanding their nearly eight-year war in Afghanistan both in scope, with deadly drone missile attacks inside Pakistan, and in intensity, with daily reports of more NATO states’ troops slated for deployment and calls for as many as 45,000 American troops in addition to the 68,000 already in the nation and scheduled to be there shortly.
The NATO bombing in Kunduz province on September 4 may well prove to be the worst atrocity yet perpetrated by Western forces against Afghan civilians and close to 20 U.S and NATO troops have been killed so far this month, with over 300 dead this year compared to 294 for all of 2008.
The scale and gravity of the conflict can no longer be denied even by Western media and government officials and the war in South Asia occupies the center stage of world attention for the first time in almost eight years.
US troops ‘raid’ Swedish charity hospital
PressTV
Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:47:24 GMT
A Swedish aid agency has accused American troops of storming through one of its hospitals in Afghanistan, breaking down doors and tying up staff, searching for wounded ‘Taliban fighters.’
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan said Monday that soldiers from the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division entered a hospital last week without permission in Wardak province, southwest of Kabul. Continue reading
US defence secretary Robert Gates talks to Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Sept 7, 2009
Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, says bringing peace and security to Afghanistan and Iraq represents a major challenge, but one that the US is committed to achieving.
In a wide-ranging interview with Al Jazeera’s Abderrahim Foukara, Gates spoke about: the US strategy for peace in Afghanistan facing a “war of necessity”, the divide between two wars, fighting al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Iraq, Pakistan’s role in the region, the “threat” of a nuclear Iran, maintaining allies in the Middle East, and US ties with Latin America.
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Exclusive: The Definition of Terrorism by Gary Sudborough
by Gary Sudborough
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Sept. 08, 2009
Most Americans have a stereotypical image of a terrorist as a religious fanatic from the Middle East who straps explosives around his body or flies airplanes into buildings. I have a few more definitions of the word terrorist.
One who drops cancer-inducing substances like Agent Orange and uranium-238 on civilian populations.
One who trains foreign soldiers in torture techniques at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia and organizes death squads to assassinate leftists and union leaders.
One who uses the CIA to overthrow democratically elected leaders like Mossadegh in Iran, Arbenz in Guatemala and Allende in Chile, leading to the deaths of thousands of innocent people.
Health Care Reform: Sick and Wrong by Matt Taibbi
by Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone
Sept 03, 2009 11:33 AM
How Washington is screwing up health care reform – and why it may take a revolt to fix it
Let’s start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It’s become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment — a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn’t be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.
The system doesn’t work for anyone. It cheats patients and leaves them to die, denies insurance to 47 million Americans, forces hospitals to spend billions haggling over claims, and systematically bleeds and harasses doctors with the specter of catastrophic litigation. Even as a mechanism for delivering bonuses to insurance-company fat cats, it’s a miserable failure: Greedy insurance bosses who spent a generation denying preventive care to patients now see their profits sapped by millions of customers who enter the system only when they’re sick with incurably expensive illnesses.
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h/t: Dr. Connie
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Will Obama Split the Democratic Party in Two? By Timothy V. Gatto
Will Obama Split the Democratic Party in Two? By Timothy V. Gatto
By Timothy V. Gatto
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
liberalpro.blogspot.com
September 7, 2009
I never thought I would see the President of the United States respond to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. To tell you the truth, I had thought liberalism had already been embalmed and buried when JFK and RFK were shot. Sure the Democrats tried to ensure that liberals believed that they were still part of the Democrats agenda, but in all actuality, they haven’t been included for quite some time. The last years under Bush, it was almost impossible to find a liberal Democrat. Idiots like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Rielly and Michael Savage castigated liberals to the point where they behaved as if they belonged in the closet!
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