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Posted by admin in PV Commentary on 02 25th, 2010 | No Comments

War Politics: Numb and Number by Norman Solomon 2/25

Playwright Lillian Hellman said: “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.” The statement was in a letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The year was 1952. We tell ourselves that the McCarthy era was vastly different than our own — but what about...

Posted by admin in Breaking Stories on 02 25th, 2010 | No Comments

Single-Payer Advocates, Excluded from Summit, Take to Sidewalk 2/24

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER, M.D., M.P.H. MARGARET FLOWERS, M.D. QUENTIN YOUNG, M.D. MARK ALMBERG Young,...

Posted by admin in Breaking Stories on 02 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

* Airstrikes in Afghanistan * Back to Square One in Iraq? 2/22

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ BEAU GROSSCUP, http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=3721 AP reports today: "A NATO airstrike...

Posted by admin in CommonDreams.org, PV Commentary on 02 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Greed Trophy up for Grabs by Jim Hightower 2/17

Published on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Creators Syndicate By gollies, the top executives of health insurance corporations are not giving up without a fight! To paraphrase every high school football coach who ever lived, “When the going gets ugly, the ugly get going.”During the past...

Posted by admin in Breaking Stories on 02 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Billions to Subsidize Nuclear Energy 2/16

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ The New York Times reports today: "In a speech in Lanham, Md., Mr. Obama announced government approval of...

Posted by admin in PV Commentary on 02 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Dollars for Death, Pennies for Life By Norman Solomon 2/15

Dollars for Death, Pennies for Life By Norman Solomon When the U.S. military began a major offensive in southern Afghanistan over the Presidents Day weekend, the killing of children and other civilians was predictable. Lofty rhetoric aside, such deaths come with the territory of war and occupation. ...

Posted by admin in Breaking Stories on 02 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Protesting the Olympics? 2/12

From: Institute for Public Accuracy (dcinstitute@igc.org) Sent: Fri 2/12/10 12:17 PM To: Institute for Public Accuracy (institute@igc.org) On the web: http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2175 Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020...

Posted by admin in Breaking Stories on 02 11th, 2010 | No Comments

So Much for Global Warming? 2/11

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ MICHAEL DORSEY Professor of global environmental policy at Dartmouth College, Dorsey said today: “We...

Posted by admin in Breaking Stories on 02 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Soldier Faces Court-Martial in Iraq for Hip Hop Song 2/10

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ JEFF PATERSON, http://www.couragetoresist.org SARAH LAZARE, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/09-8 ...

Posted by admin in Breaking Stories on 02 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

Obama Shielding Torture Memo Lawyers? 2/3

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ Newsweek recently told readers that "an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit,...

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