This Commentary is excerpted from the FREE FOR ALL WITH BETH AND JULES program which was webcast on HOMEGROWNRADIONJ.ORG on Tuesday May 12 2009. Jules & Beth discuss the deliberate exclusion of advocates of single-payer healthcare from the Senate Finance Committee hearings and the arrest of those who requested to speak. The "promises" of the drug companies, HMOs, hospitals, and insurance companies to cut over a trillion dollars from costs sound very much like those they made 30 years ago and are likely to have the same result.

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This Commentary is excerpted from the FREE FOR ALL WITH BETH AND JULES program which was webcast on HOMEGROWNRADIONJ.ORG on Tuesday May 5 2009. Jules & Beth discuss Obama's proposal to eliminate off-shore tax shelters, the tricks multi-national corporations use to dodge taxes,  and why Obama's proposal is unlikely to succeed. The Madoff scandal as seen as only the scab on the wound modern capitalism has inflicted on us all. More...

This Commentary is excerpted from the FREE FOR ALL WITH BETH AND JULES program which was webcast on HOMEGROWNRADIONJ.ORG on Tuesday April 28, 2009. Jules & Beth discuss the role of religion and the rise in the number of people who describe themselves as unbelievers. The British ban on incandescent bulbs raises the question of the effectiveness of prohibition as opposed to education. More...

This Commentary is excerpted from the FREE FOR ALL WITH BETH AND JULES program which waswebcast on HOMEGROWNRADIONJ.ORG on Tuesday April 21, 2009. Jules talks about why the U.S.,the richest country in the world, has higher infant mortality, lower life expectancy, and almost double the healthcare costs of England, Japan, Germany, and other European countries.  Government-run health care is contrasted with expanded profit-making health insurance.

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This Commentary is excerpted from the FREE FOR ALL WITH BETH AND JULES program which was webcast on HOMEGROWNRADIONJ.ORG on Tuesday April 14, 2009. In it, Beth & Jules discuss the definition of socialism and the relationship between elections and democracy. On the 6th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the disastrous effects of the Bush administration to transform Iraq into a free market paradise are reviewed.

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