Killing the Public Option Killing the Public Option
The nation's for profit health insurers are out to scuttle anything within the Obama healthcare plan that might be in any way public. One week after the insurance lobby ...
May 21, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Pelosi or Cheney? Who’s the Torturer in Chief? Pelosi or Cheney? Who’s the Torturer in Chief?
Beltway journalists seem finally to have a found a torture story they like. Mind you, not the one about the Bush/Cheney White House possibly okaying drowning to extract &...
May 19, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Robbing Us and Paying Out Robbing Us and Paying Out
The results of the Treasury Department's touted "stress tests" are out – and so far the result is a call for massive new capital for banks. It adds up to a ...
May 12, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Killer Economics Killer Economics
We don't need a 100-day reckoning to know the score: war, recession, violence in Pakistan and now a global epidemic. The landscape before us is a pretty tense: more than t...
Apr 27, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
The Answer to Obama=Hitler The Answer to Obama=Hitler
The presidential campaign had more than a smattering of it. The economic crisis is breeding lots more. Crazy talk comparing Barack Obama to Hitler went mainstream April 1...
Apr 17, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
New Way Forward? New Way Forward?
Chris is keen on A New Way Forward and Zephyr wrote about the group here. I had a chance to talk with Kyle Krahel-Frolan a New Way Forward organizer when he was on a GRITtv panel ...
Apr 13, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Lesson from Vermont: Don’t Cower, Push. Lesson from Vermont: Don’t Cower, Push.
They did it. On Tuesday the Vermont legislature formally recognized that civil unions are not the same as marriage. Forgive me for saying it, but I think the Vermonters h...
Apr 9, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
The A in NATO is not for Afghanistan The A in NATO is not for Afghanistan
It's a strange idea, that the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization lies in the mountains of Afghanistan. But that's just the case that President Barack Obama an...
Apr 4, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Silence on Afghanistan: If Only it Were a Joke Silence on Afghanistan: If Only it Were a Joke
It's April Fool's day week and my inbox is full. My favorite prank posting so far comes from the London- based Guardian newspaper which announced (via Twitter): "Th...
Apr 2, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders
Geithner’s Plan: Like an Oil Spill Geithner’s Plan: Like an Oil Spill
Twenty years ago this week, the Exxon Valdez ran aground, spilling ten millions gallons of filthy oil over 10,000 square miles of Prince William Sound. The Exxon corporat...
Mar 24, 2009 / The Notion / Laura Flanders