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Health Care Reform, National Politics, Single Payer February 17, 2014

The Affordable Care Act keeps insurance companies as middleman between patients and doctors

Ursula Rozum syracuse.com February 16, 2014 I honestly can’t remember my last doctor visit. Like many in our country, I find the prospect of interacting with the United States medical industry anxiety inducing and depressing. This month I finally signed up for a health care plan on the New York State exchange. Choosing an insurance plan on the exchange required trying to predict what kind of scary health emergency I might have and how to make sure that if misfortune strikes, I’d take the mildest financial hit. Since none of the plans seemed very good, I decided to sign up…

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campaign reform, Democracy, Green Party, National Politics, Third Party February 14, 2014

If Bernie Sanders Runs in 2016: Dem, Indy, or Green?

by Scott McLarty firedoglake February 13, 2014 A Democratic or Independent Sanders campaign for the White House won’t ignite a “political revolution.” But a Green Sanders campaign might. Should Sen. Bernie Sanders (Ind.-Vt.) run for president? The creeping realization that the next Democratic nominee may be Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has already picked up $400,000 in speaking fees (i.e., unofficial campaign contributions, i.e., bribes) from Goldman Sachs, is making a progressive alternative increasingly attractive for 2016. Sen. Sanders is mulling the idea and a few Draft Sanders efforts are underway. By progressive, I mean favoring an immediate shutdown of Guantanamo…

Environment August 13, 2011

Agenda for a Green Economy

David Korten Keynote presentation to Green Party US National Conference August 5, 2011, Alfred University, Alfred, New York via Skype http://livingeconomiesforum.org/agenda-for-a-green-economy Greetings to those gathered at Alfred University and those watching via live streaming across the country. Special greetings to Michael Greenman and my friends in Columbus, Ohio. It is wonderful to join you by Skype for this important conversation. As you all know, this timely event is an interesting combination of a local New York Green Fest conversation on Building a Green Economy and the annual conference of the Green Party US. My assignment for this session is to…

Economy April 17, 2011

Alternatives to free-market capitalism

by Ron Forthofer Daily Camera (Boulder, Colorado), April 7, 2011 Americans have been exposed to so much propaganda about free-market capitalism that few ever think there is any other way of running an economy. However, if they were to examine this system, they would see that its focus is on economic growth and the maximization of profit. In theory, this system would create enough wealth so that everyone would benefit. However, during the last 30 years or so, we have seen changes in the rules that guarantee most of the increases in wealth go to those at the top. During…

Environment, Green Party April 16, 2011

The Global Green Imperative

Book review: ‘The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics‘ by Derek Wall (New Internationalist, August 2010, 144 pages) by Scott McLarty Although the party has been in existence for three decades, any book that comes out now about the Greens, at least in the US, is still going to be an introduction, and ‘The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics’ by Derek Wall is no exception. In this year of protests against the union-busting agenda of several governors — Democrats like Andrew Cuomo in New York as well as Republicans like Wisconsin’s Scott Walker — and a nuclear catastrophe unfolding in Japan…