Colorado Could See Single-Payer Healthcare
By David Swanson
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Single-Payer Healthcare Coming to Missouri
By David Swanson
Canada did not create a civilized healthcare system nationally until its provinces led the way. Clearly Congress is dragging behind the states in our country, and it is through state successes that we will eventually compel the U.S. government to provide our people with this basic human right.
Hawaii has a single-payer healthcare system. California’s legislature has passed a single-payer bill three times but not yet found a governor to sign it into law. Single-payer
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The Saddest Story
By David Swanson
One of the most unusual books and far-and-away the saddest I have ever read is James Douglass’s “JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.” This is the best documented account ever produced of why and how the CIA assassinated John F. Kennedy. That the CIA did this is beyond dispute, and that the first President Bush was involved is well established by Russ Baker’s book “Family of Secrets.” What separates Douglass’s book
A History of Recent US Politics in 75 Words
Stage 1: Media debate between Republicans in power and what the people and the Democrats want.
Stage 2: The people give the Democrats complete control.
Stage 3: Media debate between the hideous proposals of the Democrats and the powerless Republicans.
Stage 4: A debate between the proposals of those in power and what we the people demand begins to percolate up through the internet and grassroots organizing.
Stage 5: We take control or lose it completely.
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Congressman Frank Pallone on Why He Votes Against War Funding Only if a Republican is President
Sadly, this video includes part of my questioning and omits the rest and a follow up from Tim Carpenter, instead jumping to a question about healthcare. But you get the basic idea.
Tangled Up in Yoo
By David Swanson
Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’,
Prisoners layin’ in bed
Wond’rin’ when the guards would come
And kick them in the head.
The folks who wrote the torture memos
Sure did have it rough.
They never got enough exercise.
The new condo wasn’t big enough.
One victim standin’ at the side of his cell
Blood dripping on his shoes
Admitted Iraq had WMDs
Lord knows that made the news but was it true,
Tangled up in Yoo.
Yoo was married to his belief
Boston This Saturday
Boston, Massachusetts
Saturday
February 27, 2010
David Swanson will discuss and sign copies of his new book “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.”
7 p.m. at Harvard COOP.
The Harvard Coop Bookstore
1400 Massachusetts Avenue
18 Palmer Street
Cambridge, MA 02238
Store telephone: (617)499-2000
CONTACT THE ORGANIZERS:
Melida Arredondo
melida_arredondo at yahoo dot com
Elizabeth Ellis
ellisliza at hotmail dot com
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