Filed at 2:12 pm, Monday December 19th 2005
by Dylan Matthews
By Dylan MatthewsIn recent months, proponents of single-payer health care, such as myself, have latched onto one country in particular: France. It isn’t hard to see why; the World Health Organization has ranked French health care as best in the world, and with more choice and fewer waits than the previous heralded plan, that of […]
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Filed at 10:07 pm, Saturday December 17th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
The Center for Public Integrity has posted an article detailing VP Cheney’s refusal to face accountability and comply with standard travel disclosure rules. Apparently the VP who has so often been mia during times of national crisis thinks he and his personal staff are above the rules for travel disclosure which apply to all other […]
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Filed at 9:18 pm, Saturday December 17th 2005
by Dylan Matthews
That’s basically Bush’s response to the revelation…
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Filed at 8:19 pm, Saturday December 17th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
By Arlen Parsa
Washington has been buzzing with activity from the second half of the week, as the blogs and the papers are reporting. More so than usual. Perhaps it’s a desire to get issues out of the way before congressional holiday breaks (which incidentally are 2 weeks longer than usual this year).
Read on for the […]
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Filed at 4:35 pm, Saturday December 17th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
Michael Moore- the nonfiction filmmaker unabashed in his dislike for the current Bush Administration, has published a centerpiece article in the most recent Rolling Stone. In it, he reviews the positive and progressive events of 2005, celebrating those who spoke out against the war in Iraq, governmental response to Hurricane Katrina, and more. Moore’s article […]
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Filed at 4:07 pm, Saturday December 17th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
It hasn’t been entirely struck down yet- but it’s getting closer and closer. Not the PATRIOT, but the First Amendment. The right to write and read whatever you like is heading closer and closer to extinction it seems, as evidenced by the latest case of sheer unreasonable governmental abuse of the PATRIOT ACT (which as […]
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Filed at 4:02 pm, Friday December 16th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
Here at home, the now familiar three letter abbreviation ricochets around the television and print news nearly every day- but for U.S. troops stuck in Iraq, they’re facts of life.
I.E.D.
“Gary W. Walters Jr., 31, of Victoria, Texas, died April 24 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. Walters was […]
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Filed at 12:02 pm, Tuesday December 13th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
A bit of overlap on the Polls Update from yesterday, but this goes more into the first 1,000 days of the Iraq War- and it’s consequences. published by the Independant, published online at E&P.
$204.4 billion: The cost to the U.S of the war so far.
2,339: Allied troops killed
15,955: US troops wounded in action
98: U.K troops […]
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Filed at 12:34 am, Tuesday December 13th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
A plurality of Americans now see Bush presidency as unsuccessful.
Read on for more interesting poll numbers that may show the direction the country is headed in…
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Filed at 5:25 pm, Monday December 12th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
After years of controversy and allegations of fraud, Diebold CEO Walden W. O’Dell announced his resignation in a press release today, effective immediately.
O’Dell, who once promised “I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year,” cited “personal reasons” for his resignation. Readers may remember that Ohio was a highly […]
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Filed at 3:14 pm, Monday December 12th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
Since the embarrassing failed nomination of his personal lawyer to the highest court in the country, people have been paying attention to Supreme Court nominees with a level of interest likely not seen since the nominations of the first female and first minority justices in early 80s and late 60s respectively.
When, on October 31st, the […]
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Filed at 12:20 am, Monday December 12th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
Democracy Arsenal has a list of “10 Key Things to Look Out for During and After” the upcoming Iraqi parlimentary elections hich will take place next week, with most of the voting taking place on Thursday. Here are a couple of teasers from the list:
6. Fraud Allegations - There were some odd results of […]
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Filed at 12:43 pm, Saturday December 10th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
The state of North Carolina yesterday was slapped with a lawsuit alleging that the state approved and certified three different electronic voting systems without reviewing the source code to check for security, state compliance and other reasons.
The suit (PDF), filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (often reffered to as the ACLU of the internet) also […]
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Filed at 8:13 pm, Friday December 09th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
Today, Global Exchange- an international human rights group- has posted their list of the 14 Worst Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005. Read on for the list in brief:
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Filed at 3:17 pm, Friday December 09th 2005
by Arlen Parsa
By Arlen Parsa
December 9, 2005
Although it was first reported more than a year ago, most recently this story began circulating as early as the 9th of November, the story first made hundreds of Headlines starting on December 4.
Here’s a rough timeline and a brief roundup of what now we know-
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