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Undernews For 27 July 2009
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 5:06 pm | Undernews
WHAT IF OBAMA IS WRONG? Sam Smith America has a population of over 300 million. If the only people who really know how to run healthcare, revive the economy or teach our children are our president, the people he appoints and those who work for them, ... More >>
Undernews For 28 July 2009
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 4:33 pm | Undernews
MINIMUM WAGE STUCK IN THE 1950S Holly Sklar ZNet - Are you better off than you were 40 years ago? Not if you're a minimum wage worker. It would take $9.92 today to match the buying power of the minimum wage at its peak in 1968, the year Martin Luther ... More >>
Undernews For 24 July 2009
Saturday, 25 July 2009, 2:17 pm | Undernews
PUBLIC OPTION WOULD VARY BY ECONOMIC CLASS Norman Solomon, Truthdig - Days ago, buried in a chart under the headline, "How the Health Care Bills Compare," The New York Times provided some cogent yet cryptic information in the category of "public ... More >>
Undernews For 23 July 2009
Saturday, 25 July 2009, 11:25 am | Undernews
What's in the over 1000 pages of the pending bill? What services and cost savings do private insurers offer over single payer? Whatever happened to the growingly accepted idea that a healthcare plan based on employer payments had been bad policy? More >>
Undernews For 21 July 2009
Thursday, 23 July 2009, 9:49 am | Undernews
OBAMA'S CZARS SHORT CIRCUIT THE CONSTITUTION Politico - President Barack Obama has kindled a firestorm on Capitol Hill by appointing an ever-expanding team of "czars" to help him deliver on campaign pledges as varied as reforming health care , achieving ... More >>
Undernews For July 16, 2009
Friday, 17 July 2009, 11:08 am | Undernews
AFGHANISCAM Norman Solomon, Counterpunch - The president has set a limit on the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. For now. That's how escalation works. Ceilings become floors. Gradually. More >>
Undernews For July 14, 2009
Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 2:33 pm | Undernews
Like any good lawyer, Sonia Sotomayor can take either side of a case - even when it's about something she said. Thus she excused her remark that "a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion" ... More >>
Undernews For 10 July 2009
Saturday, 11 July 2009, 7:12 pm | Undernews
UNDERNEWS Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it More >>
Undernews for 9, July 2009
Friday, 10 July 2009, 12:12 pm | Undernews
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. - Thomas Jefferson More >>
Undernews For July 5, 2009
Monday, 6 July 2009, 9:29 am | Undernews
BBC - Some of the most arresting analysis of the causes and consequences of the financial crisis is being made by Andrew Haldane, the executive director of what the Bank of England calls - with no hint of irony - "financial stability". His latest speech, ... More >>
Undernews For July 2, 2009
Friday, 3 July 2009, 4:53 pm | Undernews
WORD I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired - Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer I think, therefore Descartes exists. - Saul Steinberg FLOTSAM & JETSAM: FROM VICTIM TO PERP Sam Smith It used to be easy to tell the enemy. All you had to do ... More >>
Undernews For 28 June 2009
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 4:30 pm | Undernews
Barack Obama didn't kill liberalism; he's just doing a nice job of burying it. The end of liberalism as a meaningful ideology came with the nomination of Bill Clinton. The argument was - although hardly phrased so accurately - that it was far better ... More >>
Undernews For July 22, 2009
Tuesday, 23 June 2009, 12:03 pm | Undernews
THE MOUSSAVI HIS SUPPORTERS DON'T REMEMBER CNN - He's been labeled by many as the "reformist," a man who can take Iran beyond the truculent anti-Western rhetoric of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. So, when Iran's government announced over the weekend ... More >>
Undernews For June 18, 2009
Friday, 19 June 2009, 11:03 am | Undernews
The book has existed in its present format--essentially sheaves of paper between a binding of some sort--for over two millennia. It has done so because it is a perfect artifact of information technology. It is portable, permanent, nearly indestructible, ... More >>
Undernews For June 16, 2009
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 11:16 am | Undernews
The Progressive Review has completed its move to its new headquarters in Freeport, Maine, where your editor has ties going back over 60 years. As part of our belief in what has been described as the need to have a place from which to view the world, ... More >>
Undernews For June 9, 2009
Thursday, 11 June 2009, 1:39 pm | Undernews
ON PRESIDENTIAL WORDS ABOUT THE MID EAST John Caruso, Distant Ocean - I decided to read Obama's speech again, but this time with a mind cleared of all prejudice and preconceptions-and as much as it pains me to say so given how hard I've been ... More >>
Undernews For June 7, 2009
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 12:55 pm | Undernews
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome -- T. S. Eliot More >>
Undernews For May 3, 2009
Friday, 5 June 2009, 12:36 pm | Undernews
Your editor and his historian wife did a farewell interview with Kojo Nnambi on WAMU, DC's NPR station,about their decades in local Washington prior to their move to our New England regional headquarters in Freeport, Maine. Click to hear More >>
Undernews For June 2, 2009
Wednesday, 3 June 2009, 11:03 am | Undernews
The real problem in the Ricci v. DeStefano case is neither the white nor the black firefighters but the law and its technocratic application. For the past six years - as the lawyers have had their fun - no one of either ethnicity has been promoted ... More >>
Undernews For May 29, 2009
Monday, 1 June 2009, 12:39 pm | Undernews
GALLERY: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF BEN HEINE ABOUT BEN HEINE SOTOMAYER ON THIS AND THAT David L. Hudson Jr, First Amendment Ctr - One of the more high-profile First Amendment decisions authored by Judge Sotomayor was her decision in U.S. v. Quattrone in which ... More >>
