On 'Death Panels,' 'Socialized Medicine' and Other
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On 'Death Panels,' 'Socialized Medicine' and Other Red Herrings
Op_ed
By Don Williams
Friday, 21 August 2009
Ain't it a shame our so-called liberal media is obsessed with "death panels" of fevered imaginations rather than death panels that exist in the real world, notably in our present health-care system?
In almost the same breath on August 17, the White House effectively dropped a real public option (that likely never existed) while Obama was telling the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) that the Pentagon will escalate the Afghanistan/Pakistan war into a long-term conflict that will assure "more difficult days ahead."
In his valuable book Looking Awry, Slavoj Zizek offers a Lacanian interpretation of Zeno’s Achilles and the Tortoise paradox (1) “The libidinal economy of the case of Achilles and the Tortoise is here made clear: the paradox stages the relation of the subject to the object cause of its desire, which can never be attained. The object cause is always missed” (Looking Awry, Slavoj Zizek pg’ 4). Our object of desire always eludes no matter what we try to do to attain it. Achilles can never arrive at the tortoise, he can only get closer and closer.
CIA Hired Blackwater for Secret Assassination Program
Investigating Reports
By MWC NEWS
Thursday, 20 August 2009
The New York Times is reporting the CIA hired contractors from Blackwater in 2004 as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of al-Qaeda. The CIA spent several million dollars on the program, which the Times claims did not successfully capture or kill any terrorist suspects. We speak to independent journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of the bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
In separate op-eds, liberals Marie Cocco and E.J. Dionne are exclaiming against those people who have the audacity to exercise their right to keep and bear arms at political rallies.
Cocco says that the “gun guys” were “displaying their perfectly state-permitted firearms.”
Britain has described celebrations in Libya upon the return of the man convicted of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie in Scotland as being "deeply distressing".
At least 10 people have been killed after a suspected US drone fired missiles into Pakistan's North Waziristan region, Pakistani intelligence agency officials have said.
Chinese authorities have detained two factory officials after more than 1,300 children fell ill in China's second case of mass lead poisoning in a week.
At least seven people have been killed and 55 others wounded in a series of bombs and suspected mortar attacks in the southern Iraqi province of Babel, police said.
Several European nations have agreed to appeals by the United States to accept detainees held at its military prison in Guantanamo Bay, a US newspaper has reported.
News_Alerts 
Chinese authorities have detained two factory officials after more than 1,300 children fell ill in China's second case of mass lead poisoning in a week.
At least seven people have been killed and 55 others wounded in a series of bombs and suspected mortar attacks in the southern Iraqi province of Babel, police said.
South Korean officials have blamed a technical glitch for Wednesday's failed attempt to launch a satellite-carrying rocket into space.
