The Senate held a historic vote on health care reform last night at 1 AM. Splitting exactly along party lines--that is, if you call Joe Lieberman a Democrat--the health care bill made it through a cloture vote and is one step away from final passage and the conference committee. To get so-called...
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Alan Grayson, the outspoken representative from Florida, has made a name for himself with his floor speeches in favor of health care reform. He’s also against escalation in Afghanistan, and in this video from Brave New Films, he calls on Congress to oppose sending any more troops to an unwinnabl...
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The holiday season is usually when the biggest movies of the year come out, but there are several that have been out for a while generating lots of buzz. Kathryn Bigelow received a Golden Globe nomination for The Hurt Locker and is being touted as the woman who could break the Best Director Osca...
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In Copenhagen, while world leaders argued dollar amounts and percentage points, more than 5000 ordinary people, activists and NGO workers, decided to fast for climate justice as an example of their willingness to make sacrifices for the greater good. This video from TckTckTck shows their vigil o...
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It’s holiday season. And besides I've been feeling too grumpy to take the news "straight." So I came up for a ditty for today. You're welcome to send us yours. Here's mine: The President asked the banks to meet, and the bankers said they might, but the weather was just too awful and the timing w...
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The subtitle of Rory O’Connor's documentary on the Durban II conference is "Israel, Palestine, and the United Nations." Two successive United Nations conferences on racism went down in disarray, boycotted by the U.S. and other countries and causing more controversy than they addressed--mostly be...
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Bob Dylan releasing a Christmas album might have thrown some longtime fans, but even with this album Dylan’s proving his social consciousness: all artist's royalties from sales of the record go to Feeding America. Hope you like his version of "Little Drummer Boy."
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"But I thought, why can’t an architect design exciting things to help the poor in their own communities? I can't tell you how happy I was the day the first boat school took the waters. It was really my dream." Mohammed Rezwan told the Washington Post about his floating schools in Bangladesh, a c...
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The economy seems to be stabilizing a bit, but as we?ve discussed many times, people are still suffering and jobless. Yet Citigroup is getting more tax breaks, and Ben Bernanke is Time?s Person of the Year. Matthew Yglesias writes: ...it demonstrates a very specific class skew?extraordinary inte...
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Joe Lieberman hijacked news coverage for a while this week, but it was Howard Dean’s defense of real health care reform that inspired White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to a snarling personal response. Ben Bernanke was anointed Time's Person of the Year despite a hold on his renomination a...
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