Month October 2006

Outsourcing healthcare overseas

Insurers want to send patients to India for surgery because it saves money. In one case a union blocked such a surgery that would have saved the insurerer $50,000 because they feared such procedures would soon become mandatory. Health care…

Defend the people of Oaxaca!

ANSWER has detailed info on the multiple protests happening this week after Mexican federal police attempted to seize Oaxaca. From Narconews, who often is first with news in situations like this. Mexican police march on Oaxaca Indymedia journalist killed by…

Cindy Sheehan

Maybe one reason Cindy Sheehan has so resonated with the public is that, at heart, she is Everymom, a completely normal and mainstream mother – who lost her son in Iraq…