2009 July | Progressive Voices

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 07 31st, 2009 | No Comments

Are Liberal Netroots Groups Helping Obama Fail? by Jeff Cohen

Published on Thursday, July 30, 2009 by CommonDreams.org I’ve started deleting them as spam. I’m not talking about the enlarge-your-penis emails or “You’ve Won the Lottery” notices. I’m talking about the increasingly-urgent emails coming for weeks from liberal Netroots groups calling for...

Posted by admin in IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 07 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Obama’s Doctor, Others: Not Doing Single Payer a “Terrible Mistake” July 30

DAVID SCHEINER, MD, SIDNEY WOLFE, MD, http://www.citizen.org MARGARET FLOWERS, MD, http://www.md.pnhp.org, http://www.pnhp.org At a news conference at the National Press Club today, David Scheiner, who was Obama's personal physician for 22 years, said he would not support a proposal currently working...

Posted by admin in IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 07 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Medicare Anniversary - July 29

Thursday is the anniversary of Medicare's enactment. JOHN GEYMAN, http://www.pnhp.org/blog/author/johngeyman Geyman is professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington. He is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program and author of the book "Shredding the Social...

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 07 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Spinning Healthcare: A Bad Case of Vertigo By Norman Solomon

“I want to cover everybody,” President Obama said at his news conference Wednesday night. “Now, the truth is that unless you have a -- what's called a single-payer system, in which everybody’s automatically covered, then you’re probably not going to reach every single...

Posted by admin in IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 07 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Iraq: Myth and Reality 7/22

President Obama met this afternoon with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. JAMES PAUL http://www.globalpolicy.org/iraq.html Paul is executive director of Global Policy Forum and has written extensively on Iraq. He said today: "For all the talk of 'U.S. withdrawal' from Iraq, the reality on...

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Posted by admin in IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 07 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Congress Copying Massachusetts’ Failing Healthcare? July 21

STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/directory/researchers/stephanie-woolhandler Woolhandler is a primary care physician at Cambridge Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School who has studied and written about the Massachusetts healthcare plan. She said...

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 07 20th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Iran commentary By Sean Penn, Ross Mirkarimi and Reese Erlich 7/20/09

During our travels to Iran in 2005, Penn and Erlich interviewed numerous ordinary Iranians. People were very friendly towards us as Americans but very hostile to U.S. policy against their country. We visited Friday prayers where 10,000 people chanted “Death to America.” Afterwards those same people...

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Beyond the Hype: Cronkite and the Vietnam War by Norman Solomon

Media eulogies for Walter Cronkite — including from progressive commentators — rarely talk about his coverage of the Vietnam War before 1968. This obit omit is essential to the myth of Cronkite as a courageous truth-teller. But facts are facts, and history is history — including what...

Posted by admin in IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 07 17th, 2009 | No Comments

Congress Protecting Insurance Companies from States? July 17

KAY McVAY, MICHAEL LIGHTY, CHARLES IDELSON, http://calnurses.org McVay, a registered nurse, is president emeritus of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. Lighty and Idelson are spokespersons for the group. McVay said: "With debate underway in the House...

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