Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Medicare-for-All Moment
There is only one solution to the twin problems of escalating health care costs and the epidemic of the uninsured: a Medicare-for-All, single payer system. Unfortunately, the healthcare debate on Capitol Hill has evolved without serious consideration of the Medicare-for-All single payer health proposal. There are many reasons for this, but one is that many…
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The Financial Crisis One Year Later: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
One year ago, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, bringing to a head the growing chaos on Wall Street. In the days and weeks that followed Lehman’s September 15, 2008, collapse, credit markets would freeze, the stock market plunged, the government took a controlling interest in AIG, Wachovia and Merrill Lynch merged themselves out of existence, the…
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Tightening the Corporate Grip: The Stakes at the Supreme Court
Can things get still worse in Washington? Yes, they can. And they will, if the Supreme Court decides for corporations and against real human beings and their democracy in a case the Court will be hearing today, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Until reaching the Supreme Court last year, this case has involved a…
- The Medicare-for-All Moment
- The Financial Crisis One Year Later: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
- Tightening the Corporate Grip: The Stakes at the Supreme Court
- 150 Years
- The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: Financial Sector Regulation
- The IMF Accountability Moment
- GM Nationalization: The Path Not Taken, Choices Still Ahead
- Bankrupt Thinking
- No Blank Check for the IMF
- What if the Obama Administration Treated Detroit like Wall Street?
- Lessons from AIG
- We Told You So
- Wall Street’s Best Investment II: 12 Deregulatory Steps to Financial Meltdown
- Wall Street’s Best Investment I: Paying for Policy in Washington
- The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
- Auto Bailout: Ecological Sustainability Before Economic Viability
- The Nasty Class and Anti-Union Bias of Auto Bailout Opposition, or the Wall Street-Detroit Double Standard
- Nationalize GM — Or At Least Think About It
- Not Yet at the Promised Land
- Mordor Brightens; Obama’s Challenge — And Ours
- Public Ownership — But No Public Control
- Getting Wall Street Pay Reform Right
- The Financial Crisis: How and Why Congress Should Play for Time
- The Financial Re-Regulatory Agenda
- Counterfeit Democracy
- Executive Pay and “The Market Economy”
- The Commercial Games: How Commercialism is Overrunning the Olympics
- Celebrate, Don’t Mourn, Collapse of WTO Talks
- The Scourge of the IMF
- Crime, Punishment and ExxonMobil
- The G8: Humanitarian Failure and Making the World Safe for Corporate Power
- High Flyers and Soaring Inequality
- Behind Skyrocketing Oil Prices
- What To Do About the Price of Oil
- Pharmaceutical Payola — Drug Marketing to Doctors
- Global Poverty: More Big Business is Not the Solution
- Big Pharma Digs In
- Medical R&D That Works for the Developing World
- Opening the Schoolhouse: Undoing the World Bank’s Damage
- IMF: The Times They Are A-Changin’
- The Unrealized Dream: 40 Years After King’s Assassination
- Philip Morris Intl Commences New Plans to Spread Death and Disease
- How Things Work: FTC Chair to Join Procter & Gamble
- Alternative Power
- Heads Monsanto Wins, Tails We Lose; The Genetically Modified Food Gamble
- “U.S. Multinationals Have Been Decoupling from the U.S. Economy,” says BusinessWeek
- Human Rights Hypocrisy: Hidden In Plain Sight
- The Shameful State of the Union
- Reclaiming Economic Freedom
- Deregulation and the Financial Crisis
- Big Business Is Even More Unpopular Than You Think
- The First Amendment Gone Wild: Big Pharma’s “Right” to Find Out What Doctors Are Prescribing
- Victories in 2007
- The Story of Stuff
- IMF: No Sex, Still a Scandal
- Greenspan, Kissinger: Oil Drives US in Iraq, Iran
- The Benchmarks Iraq Is Meeting — And One It Thankfully Is Not
- A Heartless “Philosophy”
- SiCKO, Part III: National Health Insurance — More Humane and More Efficient
- Blackstone and Capital’s Scam
- SiCKO, Part II: Things Can Be Different
- SiCKO, Part I: The Human Tragedy
- The Search for Climate Change Leadership
- The Dangers of Democratic Hedging (not about Iraq)
- Corporate Power Since 1980
- WELL, AT LEAST HE’S NOT A WAR CRIMINAL*
- Louisville Refuses To Turn On The BusRadio
- Ken Adelman’s Lies
- Promoting Monopoly at the FTC
- HP and The Privacy Erosion
- Elmo Will Not Absolve You
- The Corporate Subsidiary Ruse
- Cesspool
- A Grim Day for Big Pharma
- Hezbollah vs. Halliburton
- Army Theme Park Update
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- How Hot Is It – Follow-up
- How Hot Is It?
- Only the Little People
- Dr. Gottlieb Is Not Happy
- Signs of the Times
- Wal-Mart refuses to accept unions, regulations, leaves Germany
- AN ISLAND OF SOCIALISM IN A SEA OF CAPITALISM
- Celebrate, Don’t Mourn, WTO Talks Collapse
- Activism Inc.
- THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY ACADEMY AWARDS
- Boeing Criminal Agreement: Odd and Unusual
- A NEW WAY FOR DRUG DEVELOPMENT?
- JIFFY LUBE CAUGHT WITH ITS PAN DOWN
- The Bill of Rights Applies to Corporations? Queries for Justice Scalia
- The Boeing-DOJ Debacle
- Labor “Flexibility” and Repression in the USA
- Corporate Democrats
- When Mom Dies
- Stamp Out Pervasive Commercialism
- Tobacco and Trade Agreements
- Crime and Punishment
- No “Crisis” with Bolivian Gas
- Employers, Immigrants, Rights
- Postcard to Incoming Fed Chair Ben Bernanke
- Giving Away Development Rights in Washington, DC
- Devastating WTO Decision
- Of Snowboarders and Corporations
- Plastics
- Have You Ever Been Convicted of a Felony?
- Rising Foreign Investment in the United States
- Military Lunacy: How About a Bit of Common Sense?
- Coddling Corporate Criminals
- Tax Day and the Corporate Predators
- Good News From USTR
- Big Oil and the Price at the Pump
- Democrats and the Gas Price Crisis — About to Blow Another Opportunity?
- A Stateless Philip Morris?
- Footnote to “A Stateless Philip Morris?”