Hersh: Cheney's Secret Assassin Team | My Medical Bill for Fainting: $10,000 | Obama's Car Czar Plots Crushing Unions

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Fainting in This Country Can Carry a $10,000 Price Tag By Kirk Nielsen, Miller-McCune.com After passing out, Kirk Nielsen got gouged by exorbitant health care fees. Read more »   Seymour Hersh: Secret U.S. Forces Carried Out Assassinations in 'a Lot of' Countries, Including in Latin America By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! The investigative journalist for The New Yorker explains his recent bombshell revelation about Dick Cheney's "executive assassination" squads. Read more »   We're Still Getting Screwed: Geithner Plan Will Make the Rich Richer! By Dean Baker, AlterNet Some hedge and equity fund managers could make hundreds of millions or even billions off the Geithner plan. Read more »   Is Obama's Car Czar Plotting to Crush the Auto Unions? By David Sirota, Blog for Our Future Obama put corporate raider Steve Rattner in charge of overseeing the auto industry and his "plan" seems to be to crush the autoworkers. Read more »   Pissed Off at the Corporate Banking Industry? Here's an Easy Way You Can Hurt Them By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real We need to force the administration to do to these tumorlike institutions what they just did to GM. Moving our checking accounts will do the trick. Read more »   William Greider and Bill Moyers on Washington's Unholy Alliance with Wall Street By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal "What do we do now?" Read more »   Home Invasions and Kidnappings from the Mexican Drug War Explode into the U.S. By Randal C. Archibold, The New York Times A rash of shootings in Vancouver, British Columbia, kidnappings in Phoenix, brutal assaults in Birmingham, Ala., are tied to the drug cartel violence. Read more »   Rare Protest Footage Reveals Tibetan Defiance of Chinese Crackdowns By Lhadon Tethong, AlterNet In spite of the troops, tanks and snipers, in spite of the beatings, arrests and disappearances -- Tibetans continue to resist. Read more »   8 Ways to Join the Local Food Movement By Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine How to turn a lawn into lunch, swap preserves, glean, boost your food security and live the good life. Read more »   Why Sarah Palin and Chevron May Be Responsible for the Next Massive Oil Spill in Alaska By Shannyn Moore, Huffington Post Currently 6 million gallons of crude oil sit at the base of a volcano that has erupted 19 times in the last eight days. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     GOP Improving on Middle Class Issues; Dems Doing Worse ... and the Money Party Wins! By Joshua Holland, AlterNet The money goes where the power is. Read more »   Is This the Moment for a True Populist Movement? By Nick Penniman, Harry Hanbury, American News Project Everyone agrees: The populist fires are burning. But what's next? Read more »   The Conficker Virus Is Set to Strike (Also, The Guardian to Be Published via Twitter Only) By Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet One of these things is an April 1st prank ... the other, not so much. Read more »

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