Truthdig - Reports - Health Care Reform Needs an Action HeroSource: Truthdig
At a protest in 2000 against efforts to roll back the Medicare system in the province of Alberta, Kiefer Sutherland defended Canada's public, single-payer system:
"Private health care does not work. America is trying to change their system.
Obama's Secret PoliceSource: AntiWar.com
Just when you thought it was safe to be critical of government: Obama is spying on you.
Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of OilSource: Truthdig
The economy is in shambles, unemployment is soaring, the auto industry is collapsing. But profits are higher than ever at oil companies Chevron and Shell.
Amy Goodman: Baucus' Raucous CaucusSource: Truthdig
This is beginning to look like a replay of the failed 1993 health-care reform efforts led by then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Editorial: Too big to fail, too big to jailSource: The San Francisco Chronicle
Torture, wiretapping and "extraordinary rendition" - these are serious crimes that have been alleged. Obama now has, more than anyone else, the power to investigate.

Senate OKs $700B Wall St. Bailout

New York City, NY – Award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely recognized as the world's premier award for personal courage and social transformation.
Invasion of the Sea-SmurfsSource: Truthdig
A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team. "Beginning Oct.
Wall Street SocialistsSource: Truthdig
Amy Goodman succinctly describes the economic disaster we are all watching.
t r u t h o u t | Silencing the Town CrierSource: t r u t h o u t
Our conduits of information have been hijacked; a man, acting like a dictator, is in the White House; the town criers of democracy are getting arrested, and Americans' heads are so full of infotainment, Prozac and Zoloft that getting off the couch seems like a real inconvenience.