Bill Clinton is to be named a special U.N. envoy to Haiti, says NPR. This news struck me as I recall when investigative journalist Allan Nairn shared some recent history with the audience of Democracy Now! about how the Clinton administration continued George H. W. Bush’s policies and backed a CIA effort that supported the [...]
The New York Times reports “Schumer offers middle ground on health care.” How could this be? The article describes Schumer offering a limit to the proposed public national health insurance plan so that it can’t compete with private health insurance companies to the best of its ability. The effort for national health insurance is ostensibly [...]
Sometimes the best camera is the camera you have. So it was today when we stumbled upon the 100 Days Campaign’s civil disobedience in front of the White House with only our iPhone. Reportedly 60 people were arrested (this reporter witnessed what he can most precisely say was many or several tens of people, so [...]