2009 September | Progressive Voices

Posted by admin in IPA on Breaking Stories on 09 30th, 2009 | No Comments

“Obama’s Olympic Error” 9/30

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org DAVE ZIRIN, http://www.edgeofsports.com Sportswriter Zirin just wrote the piece "Obama's Olympic Error," which states: "To greater or lesser degrees, the...

Posted by admin in IPA on Breaking Stories on 09 28th, 2009 | No Comments

“Mad as Hell Doctors” in D.C. 9/28/09

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org Dr. BARBARA BLAYLOCK, Dr. MICHAEL HUNTINGTON, http://madashelldoctors.com Blaylock and Huntington are part of the "Mad as Hell Doctors" who left Oregon in...

Posted by admin in IPA on Breaking Stories on 09 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment

G-20 in Pittsburgh 9/25/09

For updates and links to the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, see: http://www.commondreams.org/g20-special-coverage PAIGE CRAM, http://nlg.org Cram is communications coordinator for the National Lawyers Guild, which just put out the statement "NLG Observes Improper Use of Force by Law Enforcement at...

Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 09 25th, 2009 | No Comments

The Mystique of ‘Free-Market Guy’ Obama by Jeff Cohen 9/24

Published on Thursday, September 24, 2009 by CommonDreams.org No matter what the facts are, some liberal activists and leaders persist in seeing President Obama as a principled progressive reformer who lives and breathes the campaign rhetoric about “change you can believe in.” When he compromises,...

Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 09 24th, 2009 | No Comments

The Best Health ‘Reform’ Money Can Buy - by Dave Lindorff 9/24

When the White House or Democrats in Congress talk about health care reform, and about wanting to preserve the central role of the private insurance industry in health care, it pays to look at just what it is that they they’re so anxious to preserve. According to the Health and Human Service’s department’s...

Posted by admin in IPA on Breaking Stories on 09 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

UN and Disarmament: Will Obama Get Real? 9/23/09

On Thursday, President Obama is chairing the United Nations Security Council meeting on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. ALICE SLATER, http://www.wagingpeace.org New York director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Slater said: "On nuclear proliferation, Obama singles out North Korea...

Posted by admin in IPA on Breaking Stories on 09 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

From the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras 9/22/09

ANDRES CONTERIS, http://nonviolentaction.net/?p=290 Conteris is in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, where Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has taken refuge. Conteris is the director of the Program on the Americas for Nonviolence International. He worked as a human rights advocate in Honduras...

Posted by admin in IPA on Breaking Stories on 09 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Assessing McChrystal and Afghanistan 9/23/09

ANN WRIGHT, [currently in NYC] Wright, a former State Department diplomat and retired Army colonel, is going to Afghanistan with a delegation on Friday. Among her numerous assignments, Wright helped re-open the U.S. embassy in Kabul in 2001. She resigned from the State Department in protest of...

Posted by admin in IPA on Breaking Stories on 09 21st, 2009 | No Comments

UN, G-20 and Climate Change - 9/21

Climate change is expected to play a central role in meetings of the United Nations and G-20 this week. ANASTASIA PINTO, ORIN LANGELLE, http://globaljusticeecology.org HALLIE BOAS, In Pittsburgh until Wednesday, Pinto is executive director of the Center for Organizing, Research and Education...

Posted by admin in IPA on Breaking Stories on 09 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Pittsburgh and G-20 Protests - 9/21

CHARLES McCOLLESTER, http://www.pointofpittsburgh.com McCollester, author of "The Point of Pittsburgh: Production and Struggle at the Forks of the Ohio," just wrote the piece "There are plenty of reasons to protest the G-20: The global economic system has deindustrialized America, despoiled the...

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