Month: April 2011
Rep. Ryan’s Plan to Destroy Medicare is a Windfall Plan for Private Insurance Profits
Wendall Potter, famous as whistleblower regarding the unethical and even criminal actions by CIGNA and the insurance industry’s focus on profits over patient coverage, has…
You iPhone is Recording Everywhere You Go, and 911 Will Soon Do the Same
It has been revealed on the Apple Insider website that iPhones have been secretly recording a complete history of everywhere the users of the phones…
Library employees fired over censorship of graphic novel
McClatchy reports on a case a staff member at a library in Nicholasville, Kentucky deciding on her own to impose censorship on the library’s patrons,…
Republicans Yank Themselves Back from Jaws of Victory on Ultra-Conservative Budget Bill at Last Moment
The party of fiscal and cultural insanity, the Republicans, who are more interested in totally destroying Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, any remnant of the progressive…
This Is What Welfare for the Rich Looks Like
For the past few years Matt Taibbi has researched and written piece after piece exploring and exposing the triumph of the oligarchic corporate plutocracy in…