Month: February 2006

Alfred McCoy on Abu Ghraib

The older gentleman with a disappearing hairline and pincer-like cheeks hollowed to spend words in sparing, deliberate tones, answered the question about Abu Ghraib:...

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Signals

Everyday you can see them, if you look close enough, if you’re willing to hunt for them. It’s not hard to do. Little signs that help us interpret the underlying narrative that our media won’t talk about, either...

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Medicare D Reforms ?

Medicare D is has not lived up to all of the hype that proceeded it.  People have been denied their rx’s, and as a result, more have had to be admitted into the hospital. In Wisconsin, a mentally ill man gave up...

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A Wake/ Awake for Democracy

  For us, it usually begins with whiskey.  You come to the door after the funeral, pondering combined thoughts of mortality and potential.  You set your things down on the back bed and come forward to make your...

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4 States push Hemp

A bipartisan group of Agriculture Commissioners from North Dakota, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and Massachusets met with officials of the  federal Drug Enforcement Administration today, to determine if there might be a State...

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