Daily Online – Page 55 – People's World

LONESOME HOBO ECONOMICS Should the bankers be hanged?

July 22, 2009 By John Case

Should the bankers be hanged? Their reckless betting of other people's money turned a cyclical economic crisis into a near meltdown not seen since the Great Depression.

COMMENTARY Narrow thinking on health care

July 22, 2009

HR 676, the single-payer bill introduced by Michigan Rep. John Conyers, is a fine piece of legislation and it is understandable that those who have worked hard for its enactment are passionate about this cause. What...

OPINION Ahmadinejad on the wrong side of history

July 22, 2009

To reach a correct judgment concerning recent developments in Iran and the self-styled re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it is vital to view the whole picture: national and international. For some, otherwise objective, anti-imperialist forces outside...

Obama: Families in urgent need of health reform

July 21, 2009

Families are in desperate need of health reform, President Obama said in remarks at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, July 20. In his statement, after meeting with the hospital's administrators, doctors and nurses, the president...

Roger Rader: 1929-2009

July 21, 2009

TACOMA, Washington – Roger Rader’s family and friends gathered in the front yard of the family house here July 18 to remember his irascible personality but also his unwavering, lifelong fight for trade union rights, civil...