Rep. Dennis Kucinich on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

Dennis Kucinich on the NDAA and ‘War Without End’

2011-12-20T08:34:00+00:00

Last week Rep. Dennis Kucinich addressed the House of Representatives on the National Defense Authorization Act.

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How to Fix Health Care After Massachusetts

2010-02-05T01:37:00+00:00

We can still have health care reform in America. We need to take a short-term and a longer-term view.

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Kucinich: Why I Voted No

2009-11-08T22:38:00+00:00

Rep. Dennis Kucinich explains why he voted against the landmark health reform bill, which he says “continues the redistribution of wealth to Wall Street at the expense of America’s manufacturing and service economies.”

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Health Care: Change the Debate

2009-07-15T15:49:00+00:00

In mid-May, President Obama secured a deal with the health insurance companies to trim 1.5 percent of their costs each year for 10 years, saving a total of $2 trillion. Just two days after the announcement at the White House, the insurance companies reneged on the deal that was designed to protect and increase their revenue at least 35 percent.

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich on His Battle With the Banks

2008-12-15T11:20:00+00:00

Once they were as gods, but the deities of the American banking system are now in ruins, plunged from their pedestals into the maw of taxpayer largesse. There was a time when their power was real. Come with me to Cleveland 30 years ago today.

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Remembering 9/11 and Moving Forward

2008-09-11T20:06:00+00:00

America must move from the errant, retributive justice of 9/11 to a healing, restorative process of truth and reconciliation.

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Kucinich Under Fire

2008-02-08T05:05:00+00:00

Rep. Dennis Kucinich is back in Cleveland and fighting for his political survival as his longtime corporate opponents finance a Swift-boat-style media onslaught to take over his congressional seat. Here he fires back and makes his case for why Cleveland, and the country, needs his voice in Congress now more than ever.

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Looking Past One-Party Rule

2006-10-30T21:47:00+00:00

In advance of the election, Republicans painted Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) as the specter of a Democrat-controlled House. In this piece for Truthdig (originally posted on 10/30), Kucinich responds to the attack, and gives the American people a preview of what’s to come.

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