2010 January | Progressive Voices

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Arresting Gandhi‏ by David Rovics 1/30

Arresting Gandhi “Violent Clashes” and the Arrest of Abdullah Abu Rahma He’s a Palestinian man, and he has one of those very Muslim-sounding names with “Abu” in it (it means “father of”). Any time his name is mentioned in the media, it tends to be quickly lined up with phrases like...

Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 01 29th, 2010 | No Comments

PV Response to NPR’s ATC Coverage of Howard Zinn

by David Zupan Shame on “All Things Considered” for stooping so low you would give far-right activist David Horowitz time to blast Howard Zinn and everything he stood for. I’m sure whoever approved this will try to somehow rationalize this disrespect in the name of “balance.”...

Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 01 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Alistair Hulett, Icon of Scottish folk music, international socialism & Australian punk rock dead at 57 1/28

Alistair Hulett has died. Today is my daughter Leila’s fourth birthday, and while this occasion brings my thoughts back to the day she was born, the past 24 hours have otherwise been full of fairly devastating news. If the left can admit to having icons, then two of them have just died. Yesterday...

Posted by admin in IPA on Breaking Stories on 01 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Obama on Healthcare: “Let me Know” 1/28

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ During last night's State of the Union address, President Obama stated: "But if anyone from either party has...

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Howard Zinn 1/28

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ Howard Zinn, noted historian, writer and activist best known for his "People's History of the United States,"...

Posted by admin in IPA on Breaking Stories on 01 27th, 2010 | No Comments

Supreme Court Ruling Spurs Corporation Run for Congress 1/27

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Supreme Court Ruling Spurs Corporation Run for Congress ...

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Obama’s Human Rights Policy a Disappointment 1/26

Published on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 by Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) by Stephen Zunes The Obama administration’s record on human rights has been a major disappointment. In part because the Bush administration abused the promotion of democracy and human rights to rationalize its militaristic...

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Obama: Cut Domestic, Increase Military 1/26

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ JO COMERFORD, http://nationalpriorities.org Executive director of the National Priorities Project, Comerford said...

Posted by admin in PV Members Featured Articles & Commentary on 01 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Good Moon Rising by Norman Solomon

Last week, with the Tea Bagger triumph in Massachusetts and the corporate triumph in the U.S. Supreme Court, an apt soundtrack would have been the Creedence Clearwater Revival song “Bad Moon Rising”: I hear the voice of rage and ruin … Looks like we’re in for nasty weather. One eye is taken...

Posted by admin in IPA on Breaking Stories on 01 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Haiti, Costa Rica and Militarization 1/25

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ ROBERTO ZAMORA, http://www.peaceasahumanright.org In Washington, D.C. and New York City until Jan. 27,...

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