How Insurance Influences Healthcare in America Today
By Alan Caruba.
“Despite more than sixty years of government efforts—representing the work of both political parties—we are moving further and further away from what we want. Prices are higher, more people are excluded from needed care, [...]
Goodbye to a very GREEN Business Week
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By Alan Caruba.
In late 2010 I let my subscription to The Economist expire and now I am going to do that for Bloomberg Business Week.
In the February 18-24 edition of Business Week, an editorial, “The Right Way Forward on Climate Change”, [...]
Whatever happened with The Congo
A report conducted a decade ago, about transnational corporations taking control of natural resources inside the troublesome area of the Congo. Should this story still be considered a major issue in western journalism? What ever happen to [...]
Flu Pandemic Threat Ended: Breakthrough New Drug Stops Virus Spread, Works On Drug Resistant Strains
By Alton Parrish.
The days of using the flu as your favorite sickie excuse could be over.A new class of influenza drug has been shown effective against drug-resistant strains of the flu virus, according to a study led by University of British [...]
Pakistan’s Backstabbing Friendship
Pakistan over and over again, has been blamed for supporting Afghan Taliban fighters. The Central Intelligence Agency, is also pointed that the Haqqani Network, the Taliban’s most extreme terrorist wing, is made central Pakistan a safe [...]
Militant Jerusalem fans challenge founding principle of Israeli foreign policy
By James M. Dorsey.
When militant supporters of right-wing soccer club Beitar Jerusalem last month vowed to keep their team pure in protest against the hiring of two Chechen Muslim players they went beyond what are usually accepted expressions [...]
With Beppe to the stars? A new form or protest against political establishment
By Oliver Krumme.
Today and tomorrow, Italy is voting; again. There is nothing unusual about changing governments in Italy, since the end of World War 2, Italy had up to 39 different governments with 25 different Prime Ministers until now. The [...]
The Problem Today In America Is Insurance Companies
By Catherine Haig.
THE PROBLEM WITH MEDICINE TODAY IN AMERICA IS
INSURANCE COMPANIES
THEY WANT TO SELL THEIR PILLS – THAT BRING MORE PROBLEMS SO THAT THE PATIENT HAS TO TAKE A LOT OF PILLS TO GET RID OF THE SIDE EFFECTS AND HE BECOMES [...]
Hmos and Insurance Companies Are Killing Ordinary People
By Catherine Haig.
THE PROBLEM WITH MEDICINE TODAY IN AMERICA IS
INSURANCE COMPANIES
The bureaucrates that run these companies dictate to the doctors and to the patients
Without knowing the particulars in each case.
The problem with dictating [...]
Killing of journalists/media workers Blocktimers and volunteers
By CMFR, Melanie Pinlac with research by Paul Dawnson Formaran.
JUST TWO days into the year 2013, a radio anchor was killed in the city of San Pablo, Laguna province. The victim, city councilor and dentist Edgardo “Egay” Adajar, hosted [...]
Six Years In Space For THEMIS: Understanding The Magnetosphere Better Than Ever
By Alton Parrish.
On Earth, scientists can observe weather patterns, and more importantly can predict them, through the use of tens of thousands of weather observatories scattered around the globe. Up in the space surrounding Earth — [...]
Cuba after Fidel, Can the revolution endure?
By Marce Cameron.
Fidel Castro is no longer Cuba’s head of state. Is this a critical moment in the life of the Cuban Revolution as it approaches its 54th anniversary in January 2013, or merely a symbolic changing of the guard?
The revolution’s [...]
Press freedom: A new “Ken Burns effect”
By Christopher B. Daly.
Thanks to documentary film-maker Ken Burns, a federal magistrate has struck a blow for press freedom that strengthens the legal protections for documentary film-makers, journalists, all sorts of people who prepare [...]
The PrisonerX Scandal and Israeli Censorship
By Louis Fishman.
Updated version:The Israeli government has placed a gag-order concerning a story, which concerns a mystery person who was imprisoned in Israel, and later committed suicide. Today’s unfolding of events has been reported [...]
An Investment Giant Or a Future Menace?
Not long ago, Lanny Breuer, the head of the Criminal Division, step down after four years of serving the Justice Department. He will officially leave March, first. In PBS Frontline show “The Untouchables” [...]
Rallying Against Enormous National Wealth
By Alan Caruba.
Did anyone notice that the estimated 35,000 who showed up for the anti-Keystone XL pipeline rally outside the White House on Sunday, Feb 17, were all bundled up against the cold? The temperature was about 25 degrees Fahrenheit. [...]
Oakland Institute Exposed the Human Right Impact of “land grabbing” in Ethiopia
By Betre Yacob.
The United States-based Oakland Institute, which is known in struggling for land rights and food sovereignty of Africans, has exposed the human right impact of the land investment, which is often characterized as “land grabbing”, [...]
Turkey: Abandoning the EU for the SCO?
By Raffaello Pantucci and Alexandros Petersen.
Recent moves suggest Turkey could make a bid for entry into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It would be a mistake.
Photo Credit: Office of the President: Russian Federation, taken from here
The [...]
The Benghazi Affair And The Nomination Of Chuck Hagel
By Catherine Haig – bonjublog.com
Senator McCain is stomping the Congress pavement over what he claims is a “massive cover up” of what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. This is a massive hunk of crap being spewed [...]
Post-revolt Arab Transitions Driven by Distrust and Inexperience
By James M. Dorsey.
Synopsis
Post-revolt Middle Eastern and North African countries are struggling to manage the transition from autocratic to more transparent, accountable societies. Increasingly prejudice, distrust and inexperience are [...]