Why is it so hard for the public at large to learn how Bradley Manning is being treated? You won't hear a straight answer from Mark Toner, spokesman for Barack Obama's State Department. Here's a translation for all you are hearing: "Because we are torturing Bradley Manning and we don't want people outside the military prison to know about it."
Last week, I watched as Lawrence Lessig presented this video at the National Conference for Media Reform (I commented on it here). I'd like to feature the video alone at this post:
The school newspaper was ordered to run the story "below the fold," so this spunky newspaper staff obeyed. Thanks to Glenn Greenwald's tweet for this link.
Eleven years ago, Donald Trump argued that the United Stated needed a health care system like Canada's system:
“We must have universal healthcare,” wrote Trump. “I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses.” The goal of health care reform, wrote Trump, should be a system that looks a lot like Canada. “Doctors might be paid less than they are now, as is the case in Canada, but they would be able to treat more patients because of the reduction in their paperwork,” he writes.
Kevin Drum, writing at Mother Jones, explains that the political right has a long history working hard to defund the political left. He argues that this is what the fight over "unions" is really about.