Message from Missouri: 'This is our country! Let's take it back!'
ST. LOUIS – Voters here in the Show Me State want George W. Bush to show them one good reason to give him four more years in the White House in the Nov. 2 election. Missouri labor and its allies have seen enough already and are working hard to 'show Bush the door in 2004.'
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Campaign for a National Health Program NOW!
With over 42 million uninsured Americans, and another 40 million who are under insured, the time has come to change our inefficient and costly fragmented health care system. The United States National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) establishes a new American national health insurance program by creating a single payer health care system.
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Against the Whole World: Bush's AIDS Policy
Bush’s AIDS policy is a killer. AIDS took the lives of 3 million people since January of 2003, the majority of whom were in Africa. Nearly half were women. Yet Bush’s spending priorities to fight HIV infections and AIDS have allocated only $350 million of the highly publicized $15 billion he promised in his 2003 State of the Union speech. More interested in pushing a far-right agenda than in saving lives, Bush is presiding over one of the worst atrocities in human history.
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Bush and GOP Comparable to Deposed Vajpayee and BJP
Violence is integral to right wing politics, and wars and encounters are essential components of its strategy. This is as much true of the Hindutva forces as it is of the US establishment led by Bush.
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Protecting HIV/AIDS Medicine Profits
Since the early 1990s, the United States government, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and other industrialized countries have pressured developing countries to strengthen their international property rights laws. The intellectual property rights agreement states that patents must be protected for at least twenty years. The agreement forces countries to offer 'market exclusivity' to new products until patent rights are fully implemented into a country’s domestic legal system.
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AIDS in Africa: Murder by Patent
Africa is home to more than 30 million of the 42 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS. Of these 30 million people, only about 1% are receiving anti-retroviral drugs. Globally, 95% of people living with HIV/AIDS have no access to life-prolonging treatments. Access to these treatments is restricted by the high cost charged by pharmaceutical companies that use the intellectual property rights regime and patent system to protect their profits.
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Bush Rhetoric, Healthcare Reality (print edition)
The two main components of the Republican healthcare policy are to increase profits dramatically for their politically connected health corporate friends and to privatize all government services. These two goals mostly work together; but they come into conflict when the profits run up against voters who are angry about the price of and access to health services and prescription drugs.
The Bush Medicare Nightmare (print edition)
The new Medicare legislation is being hailed as the most significant change in Medicare since its passage in 1965. The legislation has serious economical, philosophical, and programmatic implications that need to be discussed and debated by all Americans. Also, this new legislation has to be debated because of the implications it has for special population groups, the low-income seniors, and African American seniors.
The Bush Economy: No Reason for Optimism
John Kerry is too pessimistic, says the Bush administration. The economy, it insists, is booming, and voters are tired of hearing about negative assessments of the economy. With 8.2 million men and women officially listed as unemployed, however, it is difficult to say what we have to be optimistic about.
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