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I unfairly blamed Mrs. Thatcher for closing down all the old British mental hospitals and turfing the inmates out onto the streets, then suggesting to Ronald Reagan that he should follow suit. Wrong! This process started in 1955 in the United States. Prior to the 1960s psychiatric care was run by the States, but with …
Two thousand Iraqis were killed in March alone. The attack on Sadrist forces, insisted upon by the US, was a huge fiasco, and the subsequent "peace" between Maliki and Sadr was brokered by America’s bete noir, Qassam Sulaymani, head of the Quds Brigade of the Iranian National Guard. The US had to stand by watching …
This might not interest those living outside the United States (even the otherwise broad-minded tend to get parochial living here after a while), but last night the dreaded Jeremiah Wright appeared on television, in one of the best, most adult and informative interviews I have seen for years. Only Bill Moyers is able to treat …
Further to my post yesterday: I heard an impassioned speech on C-Span radio from a man who clearly came from Haiti. He told the audience that, owing to the "Washington Consensus" (see below) the supply of basic food prices previously controlled by the Haiti government, were privatized some years ago at the behest of the …
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Privatization is a blatant attempt by national and multi-national big business to undermine and shrink any aspect of government that has a vague chance of making a profit. It was invented by Thatcher in Britain and applied to everything that moved or had an income, including the water Brits drink and the hopelessly unprofitable railways …
