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I Was Not a Victim of Age Discrimination at Work (Not)
When I was fired by the new owners of the Village Voice in 2006, after working there for 30 years, it had nothing to do with age discrimination. At least, that’s what the official documents say. For...
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Obama’s “Revelations” and the Oil Industry’s Slimy History
“What’s been made clear from this disaster is that for years the oil and gas industry has leveraged such power that they have effectively been allowed to regulate themselves,” President Obama said last...
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The U.S. Government, Brought to You By Big Oil
Long may she wave: The flag of the United States of Oil Oil companies have begun to “weigh strategies to fight off tougher regulations” in the wake of BP’s spill to end all spills, the New York Times...
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Reverse Mortgage Reality Check
As Congress debates its tepid “reforms” of the financial industry, Wall Street has invaded Capitol Hill in what CNN described as a “lobbyists swarm.” What I know about the legislation gives me...
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Drugsters in Academia: How Big Pharma “Educates” American Doctors
The pharmaceutical industry has wormed its way into the hearts and minds of the medical professions in any number of ways—wining and dining doctors, sending them off to vacation in splendid spas, and...
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Newest Medical Combine: Delis and Hungry Docs
Over the last year or so, there has been a campaign to break the hold of the pharmaceutical companies on doctors. The aim is to get more transparency so as to show the true relations between the drug...
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Meet the Real Death Panels: The Truth About Age-Based Health Care Rationing
The latest issue of Mother Jones includes an article by me about the controversy over age-based health care rationing, which got transformed by the right into government “death panels.” Unfortunately,...
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How We Pay Wall Street to Screw Us
Our taxes, paid into the public treasury, have gone to bail out Wall Street. And what do bankers do with the taxpayers’s money? They turn around and lobby for more. It’s called the “never give a...
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Obama’s Cat Food Commission, Alan Greenspan, and the Dancing Grannies for...
President Obama’s Deficit Commission is all smoke and mirrors. Its members are making a big show of laboring over ”painful” choices and considering all options in their quest to bring down the deficit....
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Invasion of the Body Scanners: Airport Security May Not Work, But It Does...
On the eve of some of the busiest travel days of the year, airport scanners are causing hysteria–and with good reason. Never mind the puerile TSA screeners giggling at your naked body. It turns out...
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