Killing Us Quickly – Ryan’s Medicare Proposal

Killing Us Quickly – Ryan’s Medicare Proposal By Michael Collins We’re not worth having around after 65, says Michael Collins. Why else would they want to kill us off? Church of the Subgenius House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) proposed a Medicare plan that combines Social Darwinism and a bailout for health insurance carriers, [...]

The Insurers’ Real Agenda for Change

By Wendell Potter The media had lots of health care news to obsess about last week. A federal judge ruled the health care reform law unconstitutional, and Senate Republicans tried in vain to repeal the law. But most of the press paid virtually no attention to a potentially much more important development — a multi-pronged [...]

Is weponized Avian Flu the next money maker?

I guess AIDS didn’t do the job. I liked when she says that cancer is way more expensive than organic foods.

Frakenfoods

If you thought Britain was at the forefront of the organic foods movement, think again. Britain’s Independent, reports that for years government ministers, including Tony Blair, have been secretly funding genetically modified crop studies. Also, while publicly stating their neutral stand on the matter, they were secretly communicating with biotech companies on how to ease [...]

USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neotame

USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neotame.

Oink, Oink! Pigs at the trough…

5 Things the Corporate Media Don’t Want You to Know About Cannabis

AlterNet 5 Things the Corporate Media Don’t Want You to Know About Cannabis By Paul Armentano, AlterNet Posted on September 23, 2009 Editor’s note: Come see Paul Armentano and many other top marijuana experts and advocates in discussion at NORML’s 38th national conference taking place this week from September 24–26 in San Francisco. Click here [...]