Politics

Obama’s Claims About Cracking Down on Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Are Bogus

Obama’s Claims About Cracking Down on Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Are Bogus »

By Dave Lindorff - The Public Record

President Barack Obama is out and abroad stumping like mad for his embattled health insurance “reform” plan, claiming now that his administration will “crack down” on $100 billion in annual “waste and fraud” in the Medicare and Medicaid systems. This new tough rhetoric is meant to win over some of the conservative opposition that sees all government programs as inherently wasteful, inefficient and corrupt. But the claim itself is bogus....

March 11 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States [Video & Audio] »

By David DeGraw - The Public Record

Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States [Video & Audio]

When you are one of the 180 million Americans now living paycheck-to-paycheck, and you are working 12 - 14 hours a day, six days...

Mar 11 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

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Higher Corporate Spending On Election Ads Could Be All but Invisible »

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Higher Corporate Spending On Election Ads Could Be All but Invisible

The Supreme Court recently freed corporations to spend more money on aggressive election ads. But if businesses take advantage of this new freedom, the...

Mar 11 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Politics

Graham Tries To Cut Deal With White House On Guantanamo Closure »

By Joshua Durkin - The Public Record

Graham Tries To Cut Deal With White House On Guantanamo Closure

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told the White House on Sunday that there is only one way to close Guantánamo Bay: by abandoning civilian 9/11...

Mar 9 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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What Would Thomas Jefferson Do If He Were In John Yoo’s Position? »

By David Swanson - The Public Record

What Would Thomas Jefferson Do If He Were In John Yoo’s Position?

As John Yoo's visit to Mr. Jefferson's university here in Charlottesville approaches, one is tempted to ask the same question people around here ask about everything: WWJD? What would Jefferson do? Of course, it's almost taboo among the most serious peace and justice advocates to...

Mar 9 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Law

Number Of Paxil-Related Birth Defect Cases Soar »

By Evelyn Pringle - The Public Record

Number Of Paxil-Related Birth Defect Cases Soar

Since Paxil came on the market in 1992, there have been three separate types of failure to warn lawsuits filed against GlaxoSmithKline over Paxil; birth defects, suicide, and addiction. Roughly 150 suicide cases were settled for an average of about $2 million, and about 300...

Mar 7 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Commentary

Are US Military Officials Ignoring Evidence Of Rape Involving Afghan Security Forces? »

By Dave Lindorff - The Public Record

Are US Military Officials Ignoring Evidence Of Rape Involving Afghan Security Forces?

The stated goal of the US-led War in Afghanistan, according to the Obama Administration, is to defeat the Taliban and establish a stable democratic government over the entire country. Critical to that goal is establishing a professional Afghan army and police force that is not...

Mar 7 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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States Begin to Fix Our Prison System »

By David Swanson - The Public Record

States Begin to Fix Our Prison System

David Cole of Georgetown University and formerly of the Center for Constitutional Rights has been doing some good writing, not only on our failure to enforce laws against powerful people, but also on our out-of-control epidemic of incarceration which has struck those too unimportant to...

Mar 6 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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Jay Bybee Questioned As Prelude to Prosecution »

By David Swanson - The Public Record

Jay Bybee Questioned As Prelude to Prosecution

"Yesterday Jay Bybee sat with the 9th Circuit as they modeled appellate court for 140 law students at the University of NV's law school in Las Vegas. I sent out a plea to PDA's Vegas list of edresses, and about 10 people responded. Of them,...

Mar 4 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Commentary

Where Are The Military and Journalistic Heroes of This War? »

By Dave Lindorff - The Public Record

Where Are The Military and Journalistic Heroes of This War?

Today’s war in Afghanistan also has its My Lai massacres. It has them almost weekly, as US warplanes bomb wedding parties, or homes “suspected” of housing terrorists that turn out to house nothing but civilians. But these My Lais are all conveniently labeled accidents. They...

Mar 4 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Law

Ghostbusting In Paxil Birth Defect Litigation »

By Evelyn Pringle - The Public Record

Ghostbusting In Paxil Birth Defect Litigation

A month before the first Paxil birth defect trial against GlaxoSmithKline was set to begin, the Associated Press ran the headline, “Glaxo Used Ghostwriting Program to Promote Paxil,” in reporting on a program called “CASPPER,” which allowed doctors to “take credit for medical journal articles...

Mar 3 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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