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Strong Language Is Vital To Winning Back Lost Ground
Editor’s Note: PDA remains fully committed to Medicare for All, single-payer healthcare. By Matthew Fouts What did I want to hear from President Obama’s speech to the joint session of Congress? So much attention is focused on the ......
Video: Obama Blog Post - Weekly Address
The President calls health insurance reform critical to our nation’s long-term economic strength and dispells the outlandish rumors being promoted by those who are defending the status quo....
Health Insurance Giants Arrest Children While Senators Arrest Seniors, Nurses, Doctors
By Donna Smith | PDA Co-Chair of the Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign If you doubt for one moment the power of money and its control over whether or not our nation will grant the human right ......
Largest US Peace Coalition Marks Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings…
Launches Petition Drive Calling on Obama to Initiate Negotiations for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons New York, NY — United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ) — to mark the 64th anniversary of the August 6th and ......
Obama’s Used Green Team
Meet the Retreads By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR | CounterPunch Of all of Barack Obama’s airy platitudes about change none were more vaporous than his platitudes about the environment and within that category Obama has had little at ......
Two summits in Russia: A cautious challenge to the US
By John Chan | World Socialist Website 22 June 2009 Four emerging economic powers—Brazil, Russia, India and China, collectively known as BRIC—held their first summit in Russian city of Yekaterinburg on June 16. A summit of Shanghai ......
SECOND FISCAL YEAR 2009 SUPPLEMENTAL SPENDING REQUEST (H.R. 2346/S. 1054)
ANALYSIS OF THE CONFERENCE AGREEMENT ON THE SECOND FISCAL YEAR 2009 SUPPLEMENTAL SPENDING REQUEST (H.R. 2346/S. 1054) On June 11 House and Senate conferees approved a $105.9 billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill for the latter part ......
Bill Maher Is Hoping for a Little More Audacity
The “Real Time” host has some harsh words for the president, who, he says, is caving to insurance companies, banks and polluters: “This is not getting the job done. And this is not what ......
LT. Dan Choi Takes “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Directly To Obama
By: Linda Milazzo PDA Blog Contributor (Last) Wednesday evening, in an act of daring befitting a West Point graduate and veteran of Iraq, recently discharged New York National Guard Lieutenant Daniel Choi defied the orders ......
