When ordinary Americans seek care for their health, they come up against a most peculiar system. The U.S. has some of the most advanced medical science in the world. It spends more of its resources on health care than any other country in the world. Yet Americans’ health is rated near the bottom of developed countries. In some of the poorest countries in the world people live longer and fewer die in infancy than in the U.S. Americans spend nearly twice as much as Japanese on health care, but Japanese live on average four years longer.
THE REACH OF COMPLICITY
December 12, 2007 What did Congressional Democrats know, and when did they know it? Is it possible that many Democratic leaders have been informed by the Bush administration over the years about its doubtfully legal activities? If so, are they therefore complicit in the Bush administration’s lawlessness? It’s just been disclosed that Representative Jane… Read More »
THE MISTRIALS OF EHREN WATADA
October 12, 2007 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher The double jeopardy clause of the US Constitution ensures that no American can be tried twice for the same offense. But at a time when our civil liberties are rapidly eroding, a drama is unfolding in Washington State over whether that constitutional protection applies… Read More »
HOW THE MILITARY CAN STOP AN IRAN ATTACK
October 9, 2007 Sometimes history–and necessity–make strange bedfellows. The German general staff transported Lenin to Russia to lead a revolution. Union-buster Ronald Reagan played godfather to the birth of the Polish Solidarity union. Equally strange–but perhaps equally necessary–is the addressee of a new appeal signed by Daniel Ellsberg, Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright and many… Read More »
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