lies and deceit about health care reform

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Several cities including Chicago are mobilizing marches and vigils to protest the gratuitous murder a few days ago of Jorge Steven Lόpez Mercado, a gay Puerto Rican teenager. Lόpez, well known as gay in his hometown of Caguas, Puerto Rico, was decapitated, his limbs severed, and his body burned.

Imagine - doing the right thing is economically beneficial

Almost every day we hear about another reactionary act by the latest fascist in the White House, Democratic millionaire, warmonger, death penalty promoter Obama. The latest is the fact that he refuses to drop the charges and dismiss the frame-up of 70-year-old seriously ill people's lawyer Lynne Stewart and her co-defendants but instead allows the 2d Circuit to immediately jail her. The protests must be loud and clear as this is fascism

With President Obama's trip to East Asia ending later this week, his long expected announcement of a troop surge to deepen the United States' occupation of Afghanistan is expected soon.

"Not learning lessons from the bank collapse reproduces or strengthens the dominance of the financial sector. The danger of a repetition of the crisis grows.. The political right-wing slanders the health reform as an `attack on freedom.'"

In the ten years since the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle, global opposition to free trade and “globalization” has exploded. The general public now has a basic understanding of how the world economy works … against them: companies scour the globe searching for slave wages, which help push down wages in “developed” countries; any regulation that reduces profits — environmental, financial, labor, etc. — is destroyed or ignored.

The two focal points of the anti-globalization movement have been dismantling of the WTO and free trade agreements; both legitimate targets. However, what happens if both goals are accomplished? Mission Accomplished?