Archive for September, 2009

Obamacare is Coming: Reforming $2.3 Trillion US Healthcare Industry

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

EconomyWatch.com

Washington, United States, 10 September 2009. After the ’summer of discontent’ when it seemed like President Obama’s signature reform of the US Healthcare industry was on the ropes, his primetime address to both Houses today has been heralded as a pivotal victory. Obama said ‘I am not the first President to take up the cause [...]

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Power, Illusion, and America’s Last Taboo

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Dissident Voice

by John Pilger / September 2nd, 2009

The following article is the text from John Pilger’s address to Socialism 2009 in San Francisco, California on 4 July.

Two years ago, at Socialism 2007 in Chicago, I spoke about an “invisible government,” a term used by Edward Bernays, one of the founders of modern propaganda. It was [...]

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