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Must we transform capitalism to shift from industrial disease management to people-centered health care?

Short interview with the directors of new, feature-length film Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare. Thanks to wanttoknow.info. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5ldfqf2dyI]

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Yes! Occupy the Super Bowl in the "Right to Work" state

Nothing like corporatized gladiator sports in our decaying empire to keep the sheeple revved up and distracted. Glad Occupy has decided to play a role, perhaps as Greek chorus, offering commentary on the spectacle? “The Super Bowl is perennially the Woodstock for the 1 percent: a Romneyesque cavalcade of private planes, private parties and private […]

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Department of hypocrisy.com: marijuana, our "right-to-work" Indiana state legislature, and lots more

Something in today’s local Herald-Times caught my eye, but then, when I went back to find it later, I could not. Musta been extremely tiny and hidden. So I googled it, and sure enough, found this, thanks to theagitator.com: Funny How That Works January 28, 2012 The Indiana legislature was considering a bill sponsored by […]

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"Hypersurrealist" Steven Colbert "monkeywrenches the electoral status quo"

Speaking of the function of hilarity, I forget how utterly crucial people like Steven Colbert and Jon Stewart are to help us recognize the obscene corruption that has infected both politics and policy. Hopefully, with this recognition, our minds and spirits pop open widely enough so that we catch the energy of the Occupy movement […]

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Occupy D.C. erects "Tent of Dreams" with statue as center pole

While we are still trying to wrap our minds and hearts around what happened last weekend in Oakland that the action there would turn violent, this new action is truly hilarious. Thank the gods and goddesses for the fertile creativity of Occupy. You just never know what will tent up next. And, in case anyone […]

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