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Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

'Left, Right & Center': Obama Ends the War on Terror

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout

Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech
By Bill Blum

New York City’s Summers May Heat Up
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

After Oklahoma Disaster, Give Thanks to Government
By David Sirota

Corporate Tax Cheats by the Numbers

‘Children Are Dying’

Gay Boys Free to Join Still-Bigoted Scouts

Obama Heckled During Speech, Warren Lands a Book Deal, and More

Paul McCartney: Free Pussy Riot

Not-So-Happy Swedes Riot in Stockholm

‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama Ends the War on Terror

Why Is the IRS Involved in Politics in the First Place?

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

Scahill on Obama’s Admitted Killings of Americans

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour
By Nomi Prins

A Call to Action
By James Cromwell

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

Liberating the Schoolhouse

By Wellford Wilms
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Tag: Ama

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While medical doctors are a historically conservative bunch, many physicians are beginning to lean left as they abandon the high costs and responsibilities associated with running private practices to take salaried jobs in hospitals, doctors’ advocates say. (more)

Posted on May 30, 2011 READ MORE | 9 COMMENTS

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‘Heat’ From Christian Law Firm, FCC Behind ABC’s Lambert Shut-Out

Janet Jackson escaped unscathed this time, but it seems that the FCC may have gotten on ABC’s case for airing “American Idol” alum Adam Lambert’s public displays of homoeroticism during his American Music Awards performance last month. A law firm associated with the late Rev. Jerry Falwell ... (continued)

Posted on Dec 3, 2009 READ MORE | 3 COMMENTS

The AMA’s Unhealthy Obsession

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 READ MORE | 32 COMMENTS

Tuning a Culture to a ‘Calling’

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 READ MORE | 4 COMMENTS

blogs.knoxnews.com

AMA Lines Up Against Public Health Insurance Plan

The health care debate takes another turn as the American Medical Association says it will oppose implementation of a government-sponsored medical insurance plan. The AMA’s justification for selling out to private insurance companies? A public insurance plan competing with private firms would limit patient choices.

Posted on Jun 11, 2009 READ MORE | 29 COMMENTS

mirror.co.uk

AMA Apologizes for Once Excluding Blacks

The American Medical Association has finally apologized for once excluding black doctors from membership. The discriminatory policies ended in the 1960s, but it has taken almost 50 years for the group to formally apologize for its institutional racism.