Author Archives: Diane Warth

Government report: Health law could hike prices, make employers drop coverage

By Bob Cusack, The Hill, 22 April 2010 A new government report from Rick Foster, the chief actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), finds that President Barack Obama’s new healthcare reform law would cost $828 billion … Continue reading

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Bill Moyers interviews Simon Johnson and James Kwak

April 16, 2010 BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the JOURNAL. With all due respect, we can only wish those tea party activists who gathered this week were not so single-minded about just who’s responsible for their troubles, real and imagined. They’re … Continue reading

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Joe Bageant: Anderson Cooper and Class Solidarity

You cannot man the barricades with a mouth full of Cheetos By Joe Bageant There is no way the world’s working people can win in the long run, which is getting pretty damned short, or even survive, except by joining … Continue reading

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Techie Mystery: Why Did Israel Ban the iPad?

By Matthew Kalman / Jerusalem The ministry says the iPad’s Wi-Fi system is configured for the United States and does not conform to the European standards used in Israel […] Aviv Eilon, a Tel Aviv attorney specializing in technology law…says … Continue reading

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Israel’s concert without performers

MrAlexSeymour — April 19, 2010 — Israel’s so-called ‘Independence Day’ celebration in London was marked by the withdrawal of two of the stars of the show and the non-arrival of the third. Protestors outside the venue, at the Department of … Continue reading

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