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RX for America: Health versus "Health Care Reform"
March 2, 2009 -- In our apparently endless debate about health care reform, we have lost sight of the fact that what is being debated is not really "health" or even "health care," but proposals to modify -- slightly -- the American system of access to health care insurance. Period.MORE »
Death Ray: The law of fatal attraction
James Ray, self-help guru, bestselling author of The Secret, and close personal friend of Oprah and Dr.MORE »
Gift of the Magi
And so they set out again, José and Maria,
hurried, still ill-prepared for the journey,
his tools packed in a canvas bag,
her swollen body eased up on the back
of a donkey where she winces
at each contraction.MORE »
The Graveyard of Empires? Let's hope so.
December 3, 2009. Between the fall of the Roman Empire and 1945, Europe was convulsed by almost perpetual armed conflict.
Invasions across the marchlands of one fiefdom or another, crusades sent off to murder residents of other parts of the world, dynastic struggles, revolutions, imperial conquests, religious wars, civil wars, peasant uprisings, explosive arms races triggered by fantasies about striking a "balance of great powers" – virtually every form of mass violence one can think of, interrupted only by brief intervals of exhausted “peace.” MORE »
Middle American Peace Process stalls again: Obama okays “natural expansion” of U.S. settlements on Indian land
November 25, 2009. In yet another setback to the 222 year old Middle American Peace Process and the search for a permanent treaty between the United States and Native Americans, Barak Obama has apparently turned his back on earlier pledges to put an unconditional end to increased Euro-American settlements on Indian land.MORE »
Tie a Yellow Ribbon: The endless war comes home again
In the mid-1960s, when American cities erupted in rioting that left dozens dead and billions of dollars of devastation, many people rightly perceived the events as a sign that the unprecedented violence of the War in Vietnam was "coming home to roost."
What better way to perceive the killings this week at Fort Hood?MORE »
Off-leash: Dogs, Paris, Heaven-on-Earth
by Rich Broderick | September 28, 2009 • The first off-leash dog park I ever visited was a 10 acre forested site centered on a bowl-shaped meadow in the middle of Battle Creek Regional Park.MORE »
Whistlin' Dixie: The Slave Power rises again
by Rich Broderick | September 8, 2009 • Like the birther cult, like baseless claims that Barak Obama is a secret Muslim, socialist or fascist - take your pick - like the lies about "death panels," like the frightening displays of armed unreason at this summer's townhall meetings, the trumped up controversy over the anodyne speech the President delivered to schoolchildren on Tuesday was just anoMORE »
The Feeding Frenzy of Renown: Michael Jackson and the media
by Rich Broderick MORE »
