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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The president’s initial caution served the interests of freedom by making clear that the revolt against Iran’s flawed election is homegrown. As the struggle continues, we cannot pretend that we are indifferent to its outcome.
Posted on Jun 21, 2009
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AP photo / Hayat News Agency, Meisam Hosseini
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By Robert Fisk — The Iranian regime, led by a supreme leader who is frightened and a president who speaks like a child, is now involved in the battle for control of the streets of Iran. The ayatollah appears more worried than he’d care to admit.
Posted on Jun 21, 2009
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AP photo / Esteban Felix
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By Eric W. Fonkalsrud, M.D., and Michael D. Intriligator, Ph.D. —
The best way to achieve universal health care in the U.S. is by expanding the popular and effective federal Medicare program. This restructuring would gradually extend benefits, first to the most needy and eventually to the entire population.
Posted on Jun 20, 2009
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By David Sirota — Most of the great American advances, from the airplane to the Constitution, were born from reinvention, not tinkering. For all the positive, even admirable steps Obama’s America seems poised to take, the aspirations still seem too small, too unimaginative, too confined by old conceptions of how things must work.
Posted on Jun 18, 2009
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By William Pfaff — The West was wrong about this being a war of civilizations, and so were the Muslims. Islamic civilization is experiencing a double crisis, of modernity and of religion. Nothing could be clearer today in Tehran.
Posted on Jun 18, 2009
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By Joe Conason — The real question is not what the AMA will support or whether the attitudes of the AMA have changed, but why anyone would still heed its policy prescriptions. Very few national organizations have been so wrong for so long about the matters most salient to their own members.
Posted on Jun 17, 2009
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By Ellen Goodman — At the meeting of the American Medical Association, Barack Obama tackled the model “that has taken the pursuit of medicine from a profession—a calling—to a business.”
Posted on Jun 17, 2009
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Where did we get the idea that the only good health care bill is a bipartisan bill? Is bipartisanship more important than whether a proposal is practical and effective?
Posted on Jun 17, 2009
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By Marie Cocco — At the moment, Republicans are gleeful and Democrats glum because of a Congressional Budget Office analysis—based on an incomplete and early draft of what is likely to be the most liberal-leaning health care proposal to emerge from the Senate—that shows the measure just won’t get the job done.
Posted on Jun 17, 2009
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AP photo / Charles Dharapak
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By Robert Scheer — On Monday, two men with considerable responsibility for enabling the banking meltdown confronted the error of their ways. Hopefully Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers’ sudden conversion to common sense indicates the seriousness of the banking regulation plan that their boss, President Obama, will present to Congress today.
Posted on Jun 17, 2009
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By Amy Goodman — As the Obama administration pushes for a vote on health care reform before Congress recesses in August, has health industry money too thoroughly polluted the process for anything good to come of it?
Posted on Jun 16, 2009
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By William Pfaff — Few think that the demonstrations in Tehran, and now in other Iranian cities, can produce a change in regime. What is being challenged is the reactionary social and political form the Iranian system has assumed under Ahmadinejad and the most conservative clerics.
Posted on Jun 16, 2009
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By Scott Ritter — The protests in Iran have captured the imagination of Western media, but the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should come as no surprise. The world needs to move past the controversy of the Iranian elections and, like him or not, find a way to deal with President Ahmadinejad and his nuclear ambitions.
Posted on Jun 16, 2009
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By Marie Cocco — There are without a doubt links among the extremists who have opened fire in this spring of slaughter, but we tend to ignore the most obvious point: We have decided to let just about anyone have a gun.
Posted on Jun 15, 2009
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Dr. Margaret Flowers and Dr. Carol Paris —
As the American Medical Association begins its annual convention in Chicago, we want to take this opportunity to make it clear to the American public, to the media, and to the president and members of Congress, that the AMA does not represent us. In fact, the AMA represents less than one-third of America’s physicians, and half of those are retired.
Posted on Jun 15, 2009
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