Dead last: health care quality in the U.S.
Compared with the other five countries, the U.S. appeared to deliver better preventive care; however, low scores on all other aspects of quality care pulled the overall quality of health care score down.
Mayor, City Attorney Seek Delay on Free Speech Zone Ordinance
A City Attorney will recommend to the Community Development/Human Resources Committee of the Atlanta City Council they postpone for two weeks the consideration of the controversial Free Speech Zone (FSZ) ordinance.
Bush's lies and cons
I don’t like the idea of seeming to be a vengeful person, someone wishful to relentlessly pursue an adversary. I had promised myself to wait a bit and see how the contradictions between Bush and his European allies would unfold on the vital subject of climate change.
Better Than Calling Congress
Americans should keep lobbying Congress to end the occupation of Iraq, but should also try lobbying the Iraqi government, which appears more open to listening.
Five US Reps Support Cheney Impeachment
US Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) has become the fifth total co-sponsor of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney.
Bushies Criticize Venezuela's Media Policy, but What About the Shrinking Free Press Here?
Secretary Rice went to the Organization of American States and snarled at Latin America about the Venezuelan government's refusal to renew the license of rogue television station RCTV this past weekend.
Lessons from the Appropriations Fight
In the last few days, pretty much everyone has weighed in on the final passage of the supplemental appropriations bill for Iraq. And, with the exception of Harry Reid, who fatuously suggested that the bill represented “great progress,” everyone across the entire spectrum from President Bush to Counterpunch agrees that it was a miserable capitulation.
Labor, immigrant rights groups: No two-tier society
The Senate will reconvene June 4, after which debate on the bill will continue. Labor, civil rights, Latino, religious and other groups are mobilizing visits, letters and phone calls to senators to either defeat the bill or radically amend it to promote immigrant rights.
Savage Christians
The late Rev. Jerry Falwell was one of the most powerful men in American religious and political life. He was also an avowed segregationist, contending that Africans were the cursed descendants of Ham, and worthy only of subservience to white people.
Thank you Cindy Sheehan
Cindy, like many of us, has been working to end the war in Iraq for many years. But like very few, she put most of the rest of her life on hold as she tirelessly traveled the country, spoke to groups large and small, marched and rallied and lobbied and participated in acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, did media interviews and so much more every single day.
