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Our system, designed by Big Business, is ranked 37th in the world
The four Big Lies about universal health care
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- THE REAL MOTHER'S DAY
- A GUSHER FROM EXXON MOBIL
- "THE K STREET PROJECT"
- THE GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE
- WATCH MY LIPS
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February's Lowdown
How corporate money took over Washington--and created the mobs who rant against reform
Despite a constant racket from the forces of the far-out right (Fox television's yackety-yackers, just-say-no GOP know-nothings, tea-bag howlers, Sarah Palinistas, et al.), the great majority of Americans support a bold progressive agenda for our country, ranging from Medicare for all to the decentralization and re-regulation of Wall Street. Indeed, in the elections of 2006 and 2008, people voted for a fundamental break from Washington's 30-year push to enthrone a corporate kleptocracy.
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WATCH MY LIPS
It seems like yesterday that the entire BushCheney regime was ridiculing the United Nations, declaring that if that body's security council refused to pass a war resolution against Iraq, the U.S. would attack anyway. They claimed the right to disregard the will of the U.N. whenever they pleased.
But now Iran says it too has the sovereign right to ignore the U.N. and will continue to develop its nuclear capability even if the Security Council formally condemns it. To which Condi Rice said, with a straight face: "The security council is the primary and most important institution of peace and stability and security, and it cannot have its will simply ignored by a member state."