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21 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare
Dear America:Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare. No health insurance system is without problems but Canadian style single-payer full Medicare for all is simple, affordable, comprehensive and...
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Amend the Federal Reserve:
We Need a Central Bank that Serves Main StreetD ecember 23rd marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve. Dissatisfaction with its track record has prompted calls to audit the Fed and end the...
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The Wild and Cruel Gap Between Debtors and Creditors
The word “inequality” is much in vogue these days. We hear almost daily about the inequality of wealth, income and wages between the richest top 2 or 3 percent of people and the majority of the...
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Remembering Joe...R.I.P. - Poor, White and Pissed
A Guide to the White Trash Planet for Urban Liberals February 18, 2005 If you are reading this it is very likely that you are a liberal, maybe even an outright screaming burn down the goddam...
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Obama Approves Raising Permissible Levels of Nuclear Radiation in Drinking...
Civilian Cancer Deaths Expected to SkyrocketRollback in Nuclear Radiation CleanupThe White House has given final approval for dramatically raising permissible radioactive levels in drinking water and...
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NAFTA and the Next Phase of North American Integration
In preparation for the upcoming North American Leaders Summit which will be held in Toluca, Mexico on February 19, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently held a meeting with his Canadian and...
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The Fukushima Secrecy Syndrome –
From Japan to AmericaLast month, the ruling Japanese coalition parties quickly rammed through Parliament a state secrets law. We Americans better take notice.Under its provisions the government alone...
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Usurious Returns on Phantom Money:
The Credit Card Gravy TrainThe credit card business is now the banking industry’s biggest cash cow, and it’s largely due to lucrative hidden fees. You pay off your credit card balance every month,...
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The TPP:
Power to the Corporations at the Expense of the PlanetThe TPP trade deal would expand a system of corporate rights and private courts that threaten progress on some of our most urgent environmental...
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The True Cost of Disaster Insurance Makes Nuclear Power Uncompetitive
The European Commission is assessing how it should augment its nuclear disaster insurance. Ingmar Schumacher calls for full transparency of insurance costs in the cost-benefit evaluation of the nuclear...
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The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Politics of Uncertainty.
“Most Significant Public Health Crisis in Modern World History”The nuclear disaster in Fukushima which followed in the wake of the 3/11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami has given rise to one of the most...
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NAFTA Partners Pushing North American Competitiveness Integration Agenda
The recent North American Leaders Summit in Mexico was seen as a perfect opportunity to try and kickstart the trilateral partnership. While there was no headline grabbers or major breakthroughs, the...
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What A Destructive Wall Street Owes Young Americans
Wall Street’s big banks and their financial networks that collapsed the U.S. economy in 2008-2009, were saved with huge bailouts by the taxpayers, but these Wall Street Gamblers are still paid huge...
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Is Nuclear Power REALLY Cheap and Clean?
Nuclear power is experiencing a revival due to growing concerns about climate change. The nuclear industry has reinvented itself as an environmentally friendly option, producing electricity without the...
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The “Fiscal Cliff” Is A Diversion:
The Derivatives Tsunami and the Dollar BubbleThe “fiscal cliff” is another hoax designed to shift the attention of policymakers, the media, and the attentive public, if any, from huge problems to small...
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The GMO Industry And The Disgusting Enemies Of The Poor
“I recognized my two selves: a crusading idealist and a cold, granitic believer in the law of the jungle” – Edgar Monsanto Queeny, Monsanto chairman, 1943-63, “The Spirit of Enterprise”, 1934.When rich...
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GMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism
Capitalism is based on managing its inherent crises. It is also based on the need to maximise profit, beat down competitors, cut overheads and depress wages. In the 1960s and 70s, in the face of...
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Remembering Joe...R.I.P. - Revenge of the Mutt People
Bred for meanness“There are some things so disgusting that only a white man would be willing to do them.” -- Walter Wildshoe, Coeur d’Alene IndianMany years ago I worked at an industrial hog farm owned...
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Fukushima Didn’t Just Suffer Three Meltdowns …The Nuclear Core Has Finally...
Scattered All Over JapanWe reported in May 2011 that authorities knew – within days or weeks - that all 3 active Fukushima nuclear reactors had melted down, but covered up that fact for months.The...
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“The Russians are coming … again … and they’re still ten feet tall!”
So, what do we have here? In Libya, in Syria, and elsewhere the United States has been on the same side as the al-Qaeda types. But not in Ukraine. That’s the good news. The bad news is that in Ukraine...
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