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The first question is great, a right and proper way to respond to any entitlement program aimed at improving the healthcare outcomes of a subset of Americans. The second question gives up on the promise of the first and is all too typical of the weak US Left.

Right now those who were really unhappy that Donald Trump became US President are letting Pres. Trump set the agenda for how US healthcare ought to work while pointlessly going on about preserving ObamaCare. ObamaCare (nee RomneyCare) was a gift to the HMOs which kept the HMOs in charge. It's time for universalizing Medicare for all Americans, and HR676 is the practical means to do this.

Physicians for a National Health Program have been championing HR676 for a while and for good reason. It's well time to tell the US government how to handle this, not let them come up with another complex means of preserving HMO power (which invariably means needlessly expensive healthcare that doesn't cover everyone, preserves the idea that healthcare is not a human right, and doesn't deliver outcomes which compare well with countries that do universalize their medical care delivery).

I recommend learning more about universalizing Medicare: an interview with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, more on HR676, and Dr. Woolhandler on the inadequacies of ObamaCare on KPFA radio starting at 20m27s.

no leftists are in favor of the combined arab aggression that wishes israel off the map (more accurately, all jews dead).

KPFA

Just listen to their feed for a while, especially during the afternoon Pacific time. I call it "radio Hamas", and then when people say, "what do you mean?" and then when I say "KPFA" they either look puzzled because they don't know, or get angry if they're on that side. I've even coined a term for this, although it hasn't caught on: NASLs, Neo Anti-Semitic Leftists.

Now, KPFA won't come out and say they want all the Jews dead. They know they'd lose all their useful idiot donors that aren't cool with that. They just always show the Palestinian side, or occasionally hose somebody who says something that steps over the line, and disclaim it if it causes too much trouble.

Anyway, spend some time around real hotbeds of leftists/anarchists, and you're never very far from the "blame the Jews" crowd that's fashionable again after all these years.

In depth, and by the Pacifica Radio Network.

http://rt.com/usa/news/occupy-wall-street-spreads-505/

http://www.pacifica.org/

http://www.kpfa.org/

And also I found, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Censored/151690209993

I really don't see that this is any real revelation, It's NOT a free country (unless you're very, very rich) and it's NOT "By the people for the people", it's by the money for the money!

KPFA, 100% listener sponsored radio since the mid-40's. Makes NPR look like Fox news.

Don't get me wrong NPR is good, but KPFA is about 10x greater.

or try (the best) live Radio. Listen (and please SUPPORT): http://www.kpfa.org/

• personal website
• Wikipedia entry
• MySpace page,
• weekly radio show ( Explorations )
• and Coast to Coast AM guest profile

Does this mean that we'll get some decent radio stations back? Clear Channel effectively ruined the radio for me, NPR being the only remaining reason to turn it on.

Well, for me that would be Democracy Now!, which you can may be able to hear broadcast somewhere, depending on where you live, e.g. KPFA, in the SF Bay Area, and WBAI in the New York area. In general, the Pacifica stations do a decent job of "alternative" broadcasting, provided you don't mind the almost exclusively left-wing focus.

Also, there are many, many small college stations (and other non-coms) scattered around, usually located at the bottom of the dial. They also all have internet streams these days:

• KZSU
• KFJC
• WFMU
• WREK
• WRCT
• KALX
• KUSF
• WNUR
• KSPC
• KXLU
• WPRB
• KTRU
• KALW

Indeed. Listen to a my hometown radio station KPFA in Berkeley, Ca. for a few hours then you will know what real leftist radio sounds like.

Dr. Michio Kaku's Explorations can be found online at: http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=33

College radio is great listening too, and most college stations have online streams. I like WTBU out of Boston University -- amazingly eclectic programming schedule.

There's a bunch of good stations out there... a quick list that I've got on hand:

• Pittsburg: WRCT
• Georgia: WREK
• New York: WFUV
• Los Altos, CA: KFJC
• Berkeley, CA: KALX
• San Francisco, CA KUSF
• Davis, CA: KDVS
• Stanford, CA: KZSU

In my area (near Apple HQ in fact), there are quite a few good radio stations, none of them owned by Clear Channel / Infinity / Disney / etc. Not everyone is as fortunate as I am, but nearly everyone has a nearby NPR affiliate at least.

FWIW I initially heard him on Flashpoints on Pacifica radio, that's produced out of KPFA in Berkeley and I hear it on KPFT 90.1 Houston, 89.5 Galveston

there are plenty of people who's rational, critical, and creative thinking offer greatness , specifically on radio... and i really don't know anyone who still watches cnn or any of the other 'trusted' media sources. when you don't have 9/10 radio station's owned by one company, the idea that npr is way to far to the right doesn't sound that outrageous. here, there is some 3 entities that compete for our fm radio, plus we have a community radio station here. plus there's always rantradio. i bet most of the people who listen to wbai, cjtr,rantradio, and a host of other radio networks out there also have grown past the 'seeing cnn as worth watching' stage.

Project Censored's quality varies a lot over the years - they've been doing this for a long time. Some years, they're pointing out really critical stories that haven't gotten enough coverage. Other years, most of their "censored" stories weren't actually censored, they just weren't reported with a sufficiently leftist politically correct spin as opposed to a neutral spin or a right-wing spin - "Those Mean Nasty Republicans Did _X_ and they were BAD!" vs. "The Republicans screwed up and got caught doing _X_" vs. "The Republicans were noticed doing _X_" vs. "Our Boys did _X_ and Really Kicked Ass!"

But that's OK! It's important to have analysis of the news as well as having news, and it's important to have analysis that tries to be balanced and occasionally slips leftward as opposed to just having Rush Limbaugh and his ilk whining about the Liberal Media when the media is so blatantly not liberal. That's one reason to take advantage of the Internet and of the few actual leftie media outlets like Pacifica Radio and get some variety, not just a single ostensibly-balanced source. It's easy to read around biases that you know about in stories your read - it's much harder to read around the biases that result in stories not getting reported, or around biases you don't realize are there. One of my friends even reads World Socialist Web Site, a raving Trotskyite mouthpiece, because they've got different and occasionally insightful commentary on their opponents, even if they're blind as a bat about the faults of the people they do approve of.

It's starting to show up here. The radio that came in my Chevy Impala last summer supports RDS. Here in the Bay Area, KOIT & KPFA are the only two stations I've found that broadcast it.