OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/life_a_kris_laz_080409_america_needs_univer.htm April 10, 2008 America Needs Universal Health Care By Kris Lazaro The United States of America needs unequivocal, universal health care. Unlike other industrialized countries such as Canada, Great Britain, and France, the United States is one of a few ‘advanced’ countries left in the world to not offer its [...]
Archive for April 10th, 2008
10 Apr
The Reckoning: The U.S. As A Banana Republic?
OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_cameron__080408_the_reckoning_3a__the_.htm April 10, 2008 The Reckoning: The U.S. As A Banana Republic? By Cameron Salisbury Someone finally said the obvious right out loud. A talking head on the PBS News Hour told Jim Lehrer that Americans must get used to a lower standard of living. In the years since globalization made [...]
10 Apr
BUSH AND ADVISORS GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES
OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_allen_l__080410_bush_and_advisors_gu.htm April 10, 2008 BUSH AND ADVISORS GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES By Allen L Roland Make no mistake about it ~George W Bush and his principle advisors are not only guilty of war crimes but of instituting a premeditated torture program which knowingly twisted the legal system: Allen L Roland The only [...]
10 Apr
Find the Cost of Freedom? $20,000 Per
OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_gregg_go_080409_find_the_cost_of_fre.htm April 10, 2008 Find the Cost of Freedom? $20,000 Per By Gregg Gordon Much ink was spilled March 23, when the 4,000th US soldier was killed in Iraq. And almost as much just a few days earlier — March 19 — which marked the fifth anniversary of the invasion [...]
10 Apr
Dems Shy Away from Iraq Money Fight
Published on AfterDowningStreet.org (http://www.afterdowningstreet.org) Dems Shy Away from Iraq Money Fight By davidswanson Created 2008-04-09 19:22 By Jason Leopold, www.consortiumnews.com [1] Despite posing some tougher-than-usual questions at hearings on George W. Bush’s open-ended Iraq War strategy, congressional Democrats have signaled they will give the President $100 billion more in war spending without insisting on timetables [...]
10 Apr
No answers, no goals, no exit
No answers, no goals, no exit April 10, 2008 BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIALS – GLOBE EDITORIAL GENERAL David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker gave few illuminating answers during their two days of testimony to Congress. Again and again, the lawmakers and the two highest-ranking American officials in Iraq talked past each other. The soldier and the [...]
10 Apr
Bleaker Hopes for a Good Retirement
Bleaker Hopes for a Good Retirement » Links to this article By Nancy Trejos Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 10, 2008; Page D01 Fewer American workers are confident that they will have enough money to retire comfortably, according to a survey released yesterday. The percentage of workers who said they were very confident [...]
10 Apr
Can’t Get Ahead, Hard To Keep Up
Can’t Get Ahead, Hard To Keep Up A New Poll Finds Americans Feeling a Lot More Squeezed » Links to this article By Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 10, 2008; Page D01 Offering the gloomiest assessment of economic well-being in close to half a century, a new survey has found [...]
10 Apr
Bush to Cut Army Tours to 12 Months
Bush to Cut Army Tours to 12 Months President Supports Suspending Pullout Of Forces in Iraq By Peter Baker and Jonathan Weisman Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, April 10, 2008; Page A01 President Bush plans to announce today that he will cut Army combat tours in Iraq from 15 months to 12 months, returning rotations [...]
