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Donna Smith

Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

August 3rd, 2012

The High Cost of U.S. Health System Dysfunction

While the human costs of our dysfunctional health system are staggering in terms of death, ...

Joe Lapointe

Joe Lapointe

Reporter

August 1st, 2012

The Romney Slogan: 'Kiss My A**!'

The best slogan ever in American politics was “I Like Ike.” You didn’t have to ...

Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt

TomDispatch

August 1st, 2012

Mission Failure: Afghanistan

Crossposted from TomDispatchImagine for a moment that almost once a week for the last six ...

Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern

Retired CIA analyst

August 1st, 2012

Romney Adds to Iran Tensions

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s strong pro-Israel statements over the weekend, including his endorsement of ...

Dean Baker

Dean Baker

Co-Director, CEPR

July 31st, 2012

The CEO Plan to Steal Your Social Security and Medicare

Many people are following the presidential election closely with the idea that the outcome will ...

Wendell Potter

Wendell Potter

Corporate Whistleblower and Author

July 30th, 2012

The Cost of Care for Colorado’s Victims

One of the reasons Americans seem so willing to tolerate the fact that 50 million ...

Donna Smith

Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

July 29th, 2012

Insurance Companies Gaming the System – Don’t Be Fooled

Has your insurance company called you recently to ask you to sign up for a ...

Nick Turse

Nick Turse

Journalist, TomDispatch

July 29th, 2012

The Nature of the U.S. Military Presence in Africa: An Exchange between Colonel Tom Davis and Nick Turse

Crossposted from TomDispatchFROM:  Colonel Tom Davis Director, U.S. Africa Command Office of Public Affairs Kelley ...

Stephan Salisbury

Stephan Salisbury

Author

July 29th, 2012

Police Shootings Echo Nationwide: Aurora Gets the Attention, But Guns Are Going Off Everywhere

Crossposted from TomDispatchWelcome to the abattoir -- a nation where a man can walk into ...

Donna Smith

Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

July 26th, 2012

Healthcare, Migratory Waterfowl, Sparrows, Guns and Our Children

Most often, I am writing about healthcare reform and making our way to one single ...

William deBuys

William deBuys

Author/Conservationist

July 26th, 2012

The Oxygen Planet Struts Its Stuff: Not a “Perfect Storm” But the New Norm in the American West

Crossposted from TomDispatchDire fire conditions, like the inferno of heat, turbulence, and fuel that recently ...

Carl Gibson

Carl Gibson

USUncut

July 26th, 2012

Regulate Guns Like Cars

I like driving cars. And as a driver, I have no problem registering my car ...

Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders

Senator (I-Vt.)

July 25th, 2012

The Road to Oligarchy

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights ...

Michael Moore

Michael Moore

Author and Filmmaker

July 24th, 2012

It's the Guns – But We All Know, It's Not Really the Guns

Since Cain went nuts and whacked Abel, there have always been those humans who, for ...

Donna Smith

Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

July 24th, 2012

Justice Unresolved and How We Forget Survivors

Horror.  Horrific.  Unthinkable violence.  Death around us.  Resolve to recover and to remember those killed ...

Joe Lapointe

Joe Lapointe

Reporter

July 23rd, 2012

Paterno and the Larger Cover-Up

If Heaven and Hell are the real deal in the afterlife, as we were taught ...

Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern

Retired CIA analyst

July 23rd, 2012

Will Downing St. Memo Recur on Iran?

Written with Annie MachonRecent remarks by Sir John Sawers, who heads Britain’s MI6 (the Secret ...

Wendell Potter

Wendell Potter

Corporate Whistleblower and Author

July 23rd, 2012

A nice little gift from ObamaCare directly to you

I’ve often said the U.S. health care system is so complex that trying to understand ...

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Linguist/Activist

July 22nd, 2012

Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta

Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the ...

Russell  Foltz-Smith

Russell Foltz-Smith

Programmer

July 21st, 2012

Shadows

I’ve told some of my story to friends and family in my life, but never ...

Donna Smith

Donna Smith

Single-Payer Advocate

July 20th, 2012

Today in Aurora, 19 Years Washed Away

Nineteen years ago, on a chilly evening just before Christmas 1993, Ben, Sylvia, Coleen and ...

Tom Engelhardt

Tom Engelhardt

TomDispatch

July 19th, 2012

That Makes No Sense!: Your Security’s a Joke (and You’re the Butt of It)

When my daughter was little and I read to her regularly, one illustrated book was ...

Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern

Retired CIA analyst

July 18th, 2012

Harassing the Whistleblowers

Controversy generated by recent reporting by Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane of the New York ...

Mattea Kramer

Mattea Kramer

National Priorities Project

July 17th, 2012

Four Spending Myths That Could Wreck Our World: How Not to Solve an American Crisis

We’re at the edge of the cliff of deficit disaster!  National security spending is being, ...

David Vine

David Vine

American University

July 17th, 2012

The Lily-Pad Strategy: How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War

Crossposted from TomDispatchThe first thing I saw last month when I walked into the belly ...

Robert Greenwald

Robert Greenwald

Filmmaker, Brave New Films

July 17th, 2012

With needed defense cuts on the horizon, industry forces rev up the propaganda machine

Co-authored by John Amick You know it’s a big moment for defenders of the United ...

Dean Baker

Dean Baker

Co-Director, CEPR

July 17th, 2012

California Gold Rush? Righting Underwater Mortgages

Ever since the housing bubble collapsed, the Federal government has refused to take major initiatives ...

Wendell Potter

Wendell Potter

Corporate Whistleblower and Author

July 16th, 2012

Why insurers want ObamaCare's Medicaid business

The House of Representatives voted for the 33rd time last week to repeal ObamaCare, and ...

Michael Moore

Michael Moore

Author and Filmmaker

July 15th, 2012

I Built a Movie Theater – and a Film Festival – and I'd Like You to Come to It

Here's something I haven't spoken much about outside of Michigan, mainly because I live here ...

Carl Gibson

Carl Gibson

USUncut

July 15th, 2012

Time For a Maximum Wage

uring a February 1934 radio address, when unemployment and economic inequality were both rampant, Louisiana ...

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RT @betsyjane25: @MMFlint I am having the best time ever. Ever. @TCFF #TraverseCity #GoodMovies

Aug 4th
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Thousands of people here in TraverseCity watching lots of movies. Over 100 film makers here w/ their films. Is this heaven or just Saturday?

Aug 4th
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RT @ryanhodek: @MMFlint I've emailed Netflix so many times about your films but they don't respond.

Aug 3rd
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RT @Cops4Labor: TY @MMFlint for introducing We are Wisconsin today at @TCFF and for your support of our movement. Absolutely blown away ...

Aug 3rd
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"@etorusso: @MMFlint why aren't your documentaries on #Netflix? They are great." Netflix - over to you...

Aug 3rd
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RT @wralphmangum: @MMFlint The best kept secrets are things in a book & papers becoming less a means of conveying information.

Aug 2nd
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MichiganFilmmakerAward went (posthumously) to Winsor McCay of MI. He made the 1st animated film early 1900s. His grandson accepted the prize

Aug 2nd
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All agreed It was our best OpeningNight ever. A stunning, incredible documentary "Searching for Sugarman" had audiences leaping 2 their feet

Aug 2nd
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Amazing 1st 24 hrs here @ TraverseCity FilmFestival! Record crowds & a day-long Susan Sarandon tribute that was moving, funny & very special

Aug 2nd
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RT @MichelleAuger: @piersmorgan @MMFlint almost 4000 Americans per year claim refugee status in Canada for reasons of health care http:/ ...

Aug 1st
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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half." -- Gore Vidal

Aug 1st
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Gore Vidal, R.I.P. "

Aug 1st
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Correction: opening night film - "Searching for Sugarman" Sorry for typo. First 2 shows sold out - third one just added! A great movie.

Jul 31st
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Opening night film at TCFF: "Waiting for Sugarman". One of the best documentaries of the year. Both shows sold out - 3rd show just added!

Jul 31st
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Good morning! It's Opening Day here in Traverse City, MI for our annual film festival. In person this week: Susan Sarandon & Wim Wenders!

Jul 31st
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RT @terryfillmore: We all know that capitalism is the only victim of universal healthcare. Why are the GOP & The Dems making it abou ...

Jul 30th
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"@fuzzyscorpio:TY for your tireless work. Listening to u on Piers' show was like flying 2 Sanity Island for an hour." I want to live there!

Jul 30th
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RT @cubase27: @MMFlint @KarlLasky For your information terminally ill people are looked after very well. Someone from London who has exp ...

Jul 30th
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"RT @SanDiegoWriter: RT @martymankins: A powerful end to @mmflint interview on Piers Morgan last night. https://t.co/rY421RXl" Thank you,

Jul 30th
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RT @timholt: @MMFlint Stop it Michael! As a Brit living in America with no insurance, you're making me horrifically homesick #noinsuranc ...

Jul 30th
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The High Cost of U.S. Health System Dysfunction ...by Donna Smith www.michaelmoore.com A patient whose care is compromised early on in their treatment often...

Aug 3rd
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At 65, Oscar winner Susan Sarandon still loves to say yes to new things www.freep.com TRAVERSE CITY -- Susan Sarandon is a walking advertisement for 65 as...

Aug 3rd
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Star treatment for Detroit at film festival www.freep.com ""Nobody got together in a big meeting to decide to do all this about Detroit." –...

Aug 2nd
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8th Film Festival kicks off in style record-eagle.com TRAVERSE CITY ' Michael Moore welcomed visitors to the eighth annual Traverse City Film Festival...

Aug 1st
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RIP Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal's America therealnews.com This seven-part interview is classic Gore Vidal.

Aug 1st
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The 8th annual Traverse City Film Festival opens tonight and runs through Sunday, August 5th. Keep checking back on the festival's website, Facebook page...

Jul 31st
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The CEO Plan to Steal Your Social Security and Medicare ...by Dean Baker www.michaelmoore.com According to Steven Pearlstein, a veteran Washington Post...

Jul 31st
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The Cost of Care for Colorado’s Victims ...by Wendell Potter www.michaelmoore.com Who would think that a decision to go see a movie on a Friday night could...

Jul 30th
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This evening at 9:00 PM ET/6:00 PM PT, CNN is rerunning my appearance on Piers Morgan Tonight about the Aurora shooting: Piers Morgan...

Jul 29th
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My film festival in Traverse City, Michigan begins on Tuesday. Come! Tickets still available. Here's my blog about it ICYMI: I Built a Movie Theater –...

Jul 29th
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Poop Strong: Cancer patient whose costs exceeded insurance cap wins victory, via Twitter boingboing.net Arijit, 31, is a graduate student in Arizona who was...

Jul 29th
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The British celebrated their incredible government-run universal health care during the Olympic open ceremonies yesterday. But the current conservative...

Jul 28th
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Tragedy in Colorado: Aurora victims struggle with medical bills video.msnbc.msn.com Many of the Aurora shooting survivors were young with no or bad health...

Jul 27th
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Healthcare, Migratory Waterfowl, Sparrows, Guns and Our Children ...by Donna Smith www.michaelmoore.com Waterfowl are better protected in terms of automatic...

Jul 26th
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The Road to Oligarchy ...by Sen. Bernie Sanders michaelmoore.com The democratic foundations of our country are now facing the most severe attacks

Jul 26th
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The last segment from my appearance yesterday on Piers Morgan Tonight: 'We Have to Take Care of Each Other': Michael Moore on Piers Morgan Tonight,...

Jul 25th
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More from my discussion yesterday about U.S. gun violence with Piers Morgan: 'Why Do You Have a Handgun?': Michael Moore on Piers Morgan Tonight,...

Jul 25th
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Part three from my appearance yesterday on Piers Morgan Tonight: 'We're a Bunch of Scaredy-Cats': Michael Moore on Piers Morgan Tonight,...

Jul 25th
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Part two of my appearance yesterday on Piers Morgan Tonight: 'Even in Aurora Itself, This Has Happened Before': Michael Moore on Piers Morgan...

Jul 25th
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Here's the first segment from my appearance on Piers Morgan Tonight yesterday evening to speak about the Aurora shooting and our culture of violence: ...

Jul 25th
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ICYMI - I'll be on Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN this evening in just a few minutes at 9:00 PM ET/6:00 PM PT to discuss the Aurora theater shooting: Piers...

Jul 24th
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It's the Guns – But We All Know, It's Not Really the Guns ...by Michael Moore www.michaelmoore.com The reason liberals and conservatives can't...

Jul 24th
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I'll be on Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN this evening at 9:00 PM ET/6:00 PM PT to discuss the Aurora theater shooting: Piers Morgan...

Jul 24th
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The infamous 'Downing Street Memo' on Iraq was written 10 years ago today: Will Downing St. Memo Recur on Iran? ...by Annie Machon and Ray McGovern...

Jul 23rd
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A nice little gift from ObamaCare directly to you ...by Wendell Potter www.michaelmoore.com Journalists haven't sufficiently explained health...

Jul 23rd
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Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta ...by Noam Chomsky www.michaelmoore.com Whether the millennium of the Magna Carta will be...

Jul 22nd
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Shadows ...by Russell Foltz-Smith www.michaelmoore.com I decided to post some essays on this because there’s now another 100+ people out there with shadows...

Jul 21st
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Five Stories I Am Currently Following

Today, August 5th, 2012

The dark money, SuperPAC club is teeny teeny tiny

Just 1,082 donors—a group small enough to fit inside a single high school gymnasium—accounted for 94 percent of all individual donations to super-PACs from January 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. Those 1,082 donors amount to just 0.00035 percent of the US population.

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VIDEO: 'I don't think Romney can even understand the mindset of someone who has to go to Planned Parenthood'

'Ten Theories About What Mitt Romney's Hiding'

Mitt Romney knows how to do a cost-benefit analysis, and he's determined that it's better to be dogged by reporters for failing to release his tax returns for the duration of the 2012 campaign than it is to make the documents public. Never mind that a majority of Americans – and a third of Republicans – think he should come clean.

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Northern Michigan solider injured in Afghanistan

29-year-old Staff Sgt. Robert Drebenstedt of Charlevoix was injured by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. Drebenstedt is a part of the 1433rd Engineer Company, which was deployed in May for a one-year mobilization.

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This Modern World: 'What We Really Need'