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Don McCanne: Sen. Schumer kills reform

PNHP’s Senior Health Policy Fellow Don McCanne, M.D. comments on ‘Schumer Offers Middle Ground on Health Care‘ by Robert Pear (New York Times, 5 May 2009): Comment: The success of the effort to reform health care seemed to be threatened … Continue reading

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Pay-to-play senators vs. single payer advocates

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Sue Sturgis: Swine flu genes traced to North Carolina factory farm

Sue Sturgis, Institute for Southern Studies, 5 May 2009 Writing about swine flu last week, we observed that massive hog farms like those clustered near the outbreak’s epicenter in the Mexican state of Veracruz “can act as a vector for … Continue reading

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Al Jazeera: Mobile Bulletin | US air-raid kills over 100 civilians in Farah

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Henry C K Liu: MONETARISM ENTERS BANKRUPTCY: Part 2 The burden of elitism

Inflation is deemed benign as long as wages rise at a slower pace than asset prices. The monetarist iron law of wages worked in the industrial age, with the resultant excess capacity absorbed by conspicuous consumption of the moneyed class, … Continue reading

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