Enough dithering! President Obama says it’s time to act on health care. I agree.
But act how? Are we really going to be happy with the pussy-footing proposals floating around Congress? All the so-called reformers want to do is tinker with insurance regulations. But how effective would that be, considering that the insurance companies themselves support the changes?
Writing about the recent resignation of Van Jones, President Obama’s appointee to be green-jobs czar, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer says good riddance.
The Senate cannot pass a health care bill with a public option. The House cannot pass a bill without one. The public wants a public option. The insurance industry wants a private mandate. The White House is in trouble on this and is calling upon the Senate to find a way out of this dark passage.
Goldstone conclusions may deter future trigger-happy governments
Letter to the Editor
By MWC NEWS
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Gush Shalom: We hope the Goldstone conclusions will deter future trigger-happy government behaviour
The severe conclusions of the Goldstone Commission are part of the high and continuing price which the state of Israel must pay for the decision to conduct a brutal and unnecessary war in Gaza.
The US has halted the missile defence shield programme in Europe devised under former President George Bush, saying the threat from Iran's long-range missiles was not as serious as originally believed.
Trafigura, an international oil company, could be close to offering compensation to 31,000 people who said they became ill from toxic waste dumped in the west African nation Ivory Coast, the company's officials have said.
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