The New York Times devoted some rare space on September 20 to discussing single-payer (or Medicare-for-all) health reform. The result? A one-sided account of why such a system couldn't work. What's new from the house of idiot right-wing nuts and lies?

18-year-old South African athlete Caster Semenya has done nothing wrong. Yet she has been accused of deceiving the world about her gender. There is nothing wrong with Semenya's body. Yet she has been paraded in the capitalist media like a circus freak.

the interview on Larry King Live

With the U.S. economy collapsing, unemployment rising and foreclosures on the increase the U.S. cannot afford the mistaken war in Afghanistan. Give voice to the majority of Americans who oppose escalation and oppose this war by taking action here and now!

Yesterday, we released news of the Department of Defense restricting access to Fox News at military installations.

I'd seen crises and controversies. But nothing prepared me for the imminent collapse of America's free-market system.

In the ongoing mad dash of Congress to go in absolutely the wrong direction on health care, today Senator Max Baucus proposed a $3,800 fine to force us all to cough up whatever money is demanded by his "for the corporations only" health care bill. At the

"Isn't this passing the buck? The Marine lost his life not because of the Associated Press and a photographer, but because of the war criminals--Gates, Bush, Cheney, Obama, and the US Congress that supports wars of naked aggression that serve no American"

Max Blumenthal examines the radical beliefs about witchcraft and the "serpent seed" that propelled Sarah Palin into politics.

Single payer would be the best outcome ,but a public health option, is better than the status quo.There are 64 Democrats,who have stood up to say that any bill MUST include a public option.Show them,that you are relying on them not to back down.