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Ten Years Ago, Bin Laden Demanded Oil Should Cost $144 a Barrel

bubba2 — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:35:30 EDT

In a 1998 interview, Osama bin Laden said the real price of a barrel of oil should be $144 a barrel (10 years ago, a barrel of oil was $11). Also, One month after 9/11, the New York Times warned that among the misguided decisions that would put oil supplies at risk would be that the United States attacks Iraq.

Channel: Politics Tags: Bin Laden price of oil ten years ago Iraq Bush administration misguided decisions oil supplies at risk

Study: Over half of Americans on chronic medicines

idyll — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:37:51 EDT

For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows.

Channel: Health & Fitness Tags: chronic medications study

The crisis is coming. Dancing on the Fine Line

JessicaLaurie — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:09:21 EST

The crisis is coming. The exhaustion of the natural resources, pollution and global warming, vanishing forests, overpopulation, murders, the ecological catastrophes and meaningless wars, the unexplored epidemics in the third-world countries and unstable economical situation ruined the fragile balance of the planet and caused the nature's attack

Channel: Science Tags: science health global warming climate change animals

Russia warns against Iran war

mariopazi — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:49:37 EDT

Russia expressed worry Tuesday over the possibility of war with Iran as French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner pressed for tougher sanctions against the Islamic Republic's nuclear programme. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasised Russia's "concern" over "multiple reports that military sanctions against Iran are being seriousl

Channel: Politics Tags: Russia warns against Iran war

In America, No One Should Go Without Health Care

engineer — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:48:20 EDT

This gives the issues of health care in the US

Channel: Health & Fitness Tags: Health care

Why the U.S. Ranks Low on WHO's Health-Care Study

catstevens — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:04:22 EDT

The New York Times recently declared "the disturbing truth ... that ... the United States is a laggard not a leader in providing good medical care." As usual, the Times editors get it wrong.

Channel: Health & Fitness Tags: Stossel WHO wrong New York Times wrong again

White House Acts to Limit Health Plan for Children

Beau7890 — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:11:34 EDT

The Bush administration, continuing its fight to stop states from expanding the popular Children's Health Insurance Program, has adopted new standards that would make it much more difficult for New York, California and others to extend coverage to children in middle-income families.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: SCHIP Bush healthcare working poor priorities

Is universal health insurance on the horizon?

Monte G — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:18:26 EDT

The calls for a far-reaching redesign of the health care system are as loud as they were in 1993, when a newly elected Bill Clinton tried to persuade Congress to enact a form of national insurance Ã¢â;¬" the last time a president took on the issue.

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The Surging "Success" Sputters

populist — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:08:30 EDT

"Kill enough of the people, imprison and torture them, and before long they will break. And if they don't, perhaps their numbers will be reduced significantly to eliminate them as a risk. Then, when a U.S.-approved government is installed, Iraqi oil can flow smoothly into American cars, industries and homes. Mission accomplished."

Channel: Politics Tags: surge populist party iraq war mass murder

Four suicide bombings kill 175 in Iraq

JamesMarcus — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:21:56 EDT

Four suicide bombers hit a Kurdish Yazidi community in northwest Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 others, the Iraqi military said. The bombs tore through communities near Qahataniya, 75 miles west of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city.

Channel: News Tags: Qahataniya iraq bombings

Erosion may send Alaska oil wells into the ocean

STONERS — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:56:15 EDT

Old Alaskan oil wells could be swallowed by the ocean as rising temperatures speed up erosion of the state's Arctic coastline.

Channel: Science Tags: Erosion Alaska Oil Wells Into Ocean

An examination of Bush fascism

engineer — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:49:08 EDT

The expansion of democracy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries intensified the antidemocratic reaction of conservative authoritarianism. Starting first in Italy as an antidemocratic and antisocialist movement after WWI, fascism is in essence the twentieth century version of age old tendencies in politics.

Channel: Politics Tags: Bush Fascism antidemocracy

Cindy Sheehan announces she'll run against Nancy Pelosi

TechnologyExpert — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:54:42 EDT

Anti-Iraq War activist Cindy Sheehan announced in Washington on Monday afternoon that she would challenge Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the 2008 Congressional election.

Channel: Politics Tags: Nancy Pelosi Impeachment Bush Cheney Sheehan

Televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker Messner dead at 65

TechnologyExpert — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:21:45 EDT

Tammy Faye Messner, the former televangelist and Christian singer who battled drug addiction and later inoperable cancer, died Friday morning, according to CNN's Larry King on Saturday night. He said the family had asked him to make the delayed announcement. She was 65.

Channel: Celebrities Tags: Tammy faye bakker messner Death Cancer

Statecraft: And How To Restore America's Standing in the World

deathray — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:38:04 EDT

One of the unintended consequences of George W. Bush's war on terror has been the resurrection of "soft power." It was dismissed by the hawkish Bush administration as a meaningless popularity contest that wimpy liberals wanted to engage in. Bush has succeeded in making America loathed around much of the world.

Channel: Books Tags: Dennis Ross Statecraft book review public diplomacy