Search Results
-
Bookmark
Critical Condition: Health Care in America by James SteeleInvestigative reporting team Donald Barlett and James Steele discuss Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine at the 2007 Chautauqua Institution Summer Program. In this hour-long lecture from the Chautauqua Institution, award-winning investigative ...
Giorgio Bertini
added
2 months ago
-
Bookmark
Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? - TIMEGlenn Beck: the pudgy, buzz-cut, weeping phenomenon of radio, TV and books. Our hot summer of political combat is turning toward an autumn of showdowns over some of the biggest public-policy initiatives in decades. The creamy notions of postpartisan cooperation — poured abundantly over Obama's ...
JDP
added
2 months ago
-
Senators question system of replacing retirees - Yahoo! NewsWith the death of Edward M. Kennedy, seven seats in the Senate have been opened since the last election or soon will be, the most in any one year in six decades. Two of the vacancies resulted from the victory of Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the presidential election. After that, Obama ...
JDP
added
3 months ago
-
Bookmark
Washington behind the Honduras coup: Here is the evidenceThe US Department of State had prior knowledge of the coup. The Department of State and the US Congress funded and advised the actors and organisations in Honduras that participated in the coup. The Pentagon trained, schooled, commanded, funded and armed the Honduran armed forces that ...
Giorgio Bertini
added
4 months ago
-
The vultures that prey on the poorestGordon Brown has called them perverse and immoral. Collectively, they have won court judgments against developing countries worth more than £1bn. But, at last, it seems that many so-called vulture funds may have flown for the last time. Vulture hedge funds make their money from buying up poor ...
Giorgio Bertini
added
4 months ago
-
Bookmark
The high-powered hidden support for Honduras' coup - The country's rightful president was ousted by a military leadership that takes many of its cues from Washington insiders.Powerful special interests have flexed their muscles and confronted President Obama on the most important legislative priorities of his domestic agenda. But this kind of politics-by-influence-peddling doesn't stop at the water's edge. And in foreign policy, the consequences can be more ...
Giorgio Bertini
added
4 months ago
-
Clinton: U.S. Not Declaring Events in Honduras a 'Coup'President Obama said yesterday that the military ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was illegal and could set a "terrible precedent," but Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the United States government was holding off on formally branding it a coup, which would trigger a ...
Giorgio Bertini
added
5 months ago
-
Chinese makers of faulty products rarely suffer consequences - Yahoo! NewsChinese manufacturers made more than half of the goods that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled last year, but few of them paid any price for producing defective wares. The long list of faulty products included Chinese-made highchairs whose seat backs failed, steam cleaners ...
JDP
added
5 months ago
-
Bookmark
Passenger says TSA agents harassed him - CNN.comSteve Bierfeldt says the Transportation Security Administration pulled him aside for extra questioning in March. He was carrying a pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution and an iPhone capable of making audio recordings. And he used them. On a recording a TSA agent can be heard berating ...
JDP
added
5 months ago
-
Iran:Ayatollah Khamenei's Speech Gives Legitimacy to Police Brutality, Charges Amnesty InternationalAmnesty International Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, June 19, 2009 Ayatollah Khamenei's Speech Gives Legitimacy to Police Brutality, Charges Amnesty International -- Human Rights Organization Urges Iranian Authorities to Protect Right to Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech...
lynn-ecg
added
5 months ago
- SHARE
- VIEW IN TWINES (4)
- VIEW WEB PAGE