Ted Turner Would Fire Lou Dobbs
How do I know? Because Ted Turner said so!!
Making the Ultimate Sacrifice for Health Care Reform
Sam Pullen, 31, honored his mother's spirit on October 15th by engaging in a sit-in at a Blue Cross in Los Angeles with a group of individuals who gathered to demand that insurance companies immediately grant approval for treatment of all their members with life-threatening conditions.Part Two, Talking with Former Health Insurance Executive Wendell Potter
The industry sent a spy, if you will, someone who worked in the industry, to the Cannes Film Festival in France to go to the premiere of the movie there and then to call back for a conference call in which all of us were listening in to find out exactly what the movie was all about. That gave the industry what it needed to begin developing its PR strategy to try to demonize Moore and demonize the movie.
The Gasser
Getting involved in the democracy wars exposed me to the complex and often seamy realities behind the world occupied by our "public servants".
Whose War, What War?
The long delay has been seen by conservatives as an opportunity to call the President a weak, lazy, Nigerian-born Marxist, Communist, Socialist, hell bent on destroying America. When actually it has been a delay by the White House to make the President look thoughtful and contemplative before charging full bore into a continuation of the Bush/Cheney foreign policy.
Are You an Owner or a Trespasser?
Writer Richmond Shreve explores individual private ownership, a fundamental right the western world holds sacrosanct.
Identifying the Enemy and Murderers in the Health Care Wars
"Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise"
PURSUING TERRORISTS: THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY WITCH MANIA
A comparison of the War on Terror with the three century War on Witches, it's similarities, goals and achievements.
2,261,000 Stolen Votes & Counting. ES&S: “A time bomb waiting to go off.”
Numbers don't lie. Voting machines do. Evidence points to ES&S voting machines losing nearly 25% of the votes . . . in once race alone. With 22,619 flawed voting machines . . . How many hot races & issues on your ballot? Did you check them all before ES&S took your votes away? . . . Every election, every race, every vote cast & counted on ES&S equipment is suspect . . . ES&S: Wrong for our votes. Wrong for our country.
Truly Scary, Part IV: When Christofascists Turn On Themselves
When Christofascists start to claw at each other, the results are hysterical!
Survival 101: Thou Shalt Not Snitch
John W. Fountain, a professor at Roosevelt University and a former Chicago crime reporter, writes about the ongoing violence in his hometown, specifically weighing in on why some people in crime-ridden communities are less than eager to come forward as witnesses to violent crime.
Protest against wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan
March in Philly on the 17th of October to protest range of issues, primarily war in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, the need for spending on human needs and not corporate greed, wars and repression in Palestine and Latin America and the desperate need for nuclear disarmament.
William T. Wiley and the Definition of “Mixed Media”
Most OEN readers probably lack any clear idea of what constitutes “mixed media” – like, it's a contemporary expression of post-painting art. But what is THAT?
Raising a barn in Congress: Let's get lawmakers to support Fair Elections
Watching the health care debate in Congress - and the TV ads by every lobby group in the country - is there really any doubt that we need fundamental reform of campaign finance laws?
Global Warming Accelerating While the U.S. Backpedals
Two recent studies have shocked the world in regard to global warming. A phenomenon that was to happen “possibly in our lifetime” has evolved into a threat capable of transforming the world in ten years time.
Truly Scary, Part I: Halloween Hell House - Via Child Abuse, Sarah Palin, ObamaCare And Religious Intolerance.
IF Stone: An Iconic Radical Journalist
One of the truly all-time great journalists, today sadly missed.
These Weeds Aren't Made for Whacking
There's a lot more to know about weeds than most people expect. In fact, there are quite a few surprises there if you become familiar with the plant life growing in an uncultivated field—especially on a vacant city lot.
Afghanistan—Winning Lessons from Vietnam
The Karzai government seems eerily reminiscent of the corrupt, incompetent regime of Nguyen van Thieu in Vietnam 40 years ago. The US must push hard for a government in Kabul that enjoys broad popular support. If that kind of government can't be found, then we should get out, focus on Pakistan and leave enough military might in the region to prevent Al-Queda from using Afghanistan/Pakistan as a base to attack us.
Farmers Protest Food Activist Michael Pollan at University of Wisconsin
The land grant, ag-based university, in the middle of dairyland, clearly doesn't remember its roots. It gave Pollan's In Defense of Food, another anti-agbiz screed according to industry, free to all incoming freshmen as part of its common book read program where everyone reads the same book, Go Big Read, in August.
