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Baker: Insurers Whack Elderly to Celebrate New Year
Znet Article, January, 09 2008
Dean Baker
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What better way to start the new year than to sock it to grandma and grandpa with big price increases? That may not have been the exact nature of the conversation at the insurance companies that participate in the Medicare prescription drug plan, ...
Schechter: On The Night Before Xmas, All Through The House
Commentary, December, 24 2007
Danny Schechter
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Clement Moore, the author of the original poem called "A Visit From St. Nick" recited like a mantra at this time of year once lived down in my Manhattan neighborhood called Chelsea. He lived on a farm then but probably couldn't afford today's gent...
Lendman: Police State America - A Look Back and Ahead
Znet Article, December, 18 2007
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
Year end is a good time to look back and reflect on what's ahead. If past is prologue, however, the outlook isn't good, and nothing on the horizon suggests otherwise. Voters last November wanted change but got betrayal from the bipartisan criminal...
Weisbrot: Housing Crash Still Weighs on the Economy
Znet Article, December, 15 2007
Mark Weisbrot
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If you are like most Americans, you are probably wondering what the hell is going on with the economy. Good question. Since July, when the credit crunch hit, caused by the all those suddenly not-so-good mortgage-backed securities - often referred ...
Engelhardt: Advice to a Young Builder in Tough Times
Znet Article, December, 12 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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I know. Times are tough. Here, in the United States, the bottom's threatening to blow out of the housing market. Here, construction companies are laying off employees and builders are wondering where their next jobs are likely to come from. But th...
Peters: Literacy for the Learner's Sake
Commentary, November, 23 2007
Cynthia Peters
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As a teacher in adult education, I always had to balance facilitating empowered learning in the classroom with delivering a product to funders.
Pilger: Sicko 2: The Destruction Of Britain's Health Service
Commentary, November, 06 2007
John Pilger
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Sicko 2: The Destruction Of Britain's Health Service
Durand: Humanitarianism and Solidarity Cuban-Style
Zmag Article, November, 01 2007
Cliff Durand
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It has been widely recognized that Cuba has a remarkably effective health-care system for a relatively poor third world country. As a result, Cuba has health indicators comparable to its far wealthier neighbor.
Wise: Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena
Znet Article, October, 18 2007
Tim Wise
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Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to the Mayor of Jena
Ehrenreich: Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (Glass Mountain Pamphlet)
Book, October, 12 2007
In this follow-up to Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, Barbara Ehrenrich and Deidre English look at the evolution of the medical view of the female sex and how it has been used to reinforce the social view of women.
Shah: Body Hunters: How the Drug Industry Tests Its Products On the World`s Poorest Patients
Book, October, 12 2007
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Ehrenreich: We Have Seen the Enemy -- And Surrendered
Znet Article, September, 29 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Bow your heads and raise the white flags. After facing down the Third Reich, the Japanese Empire, the U.S.S.R., Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein, the United States has met an enemy it dares not confront - the American private health insurance ind...
Baker: Alan Greenspan and His Bubbles
Znet Article, September, 19 2007
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Alan Greenspan now says that we are seeing a housing bubble. He expects a large single-digit pri...
Sandronsky: To rent or own in the U.S.?
Znet Article, September, 17 2007
Seth Sandronsky
Sandronsky's ZSpace page
To rent or own in the U.S.?
Ehrenreich: College Students, Welcome to a Lifetime of Debt!
Znet Article, September, 13 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
Welcome to Fleece U., where our mission is to take feckless teenagers such as yourselves and turn the...
Baker: Save the Homeowners, Not the Hedge Funds
Znet Article, September, 03 2007
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The mortgage-market me...
Ehrenreich: Children Deserve Veterinary Care Too
Znet Article, August, 14 2007
Barbara Ehrenreich
Ehrenreich's ZSpace page
This year, Americans will spend about $9...
Raina: Teach Them Not to Think
Znet Article, August, 01 2007
Badri Raina
Raina's ZSpace page
There is no such thing as a value neutral educational process. (Richard Shaull, Foreword to Pedagogy of the Oppressed) After the initial attempts by a section of Christian-bourgeois souls (Dickens, Carlyle, Chadwick, Mayhew, Mrs.Gaskell, even th...
Engler: Profit Medicine Kills
Znet Article, July, 30 2007
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
A front–page article in Friday's New York Times reports "The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected this year that one of every 22 patients would get an infection while hospitalized — 1.7 million cases a year — and that 99,00...
Weissman: A Heartless "Philosophy"
Znet Article, July, 26 2007
Robert Weissman
Weissman's ZSpace page
A Heartless "Philosophy"
